Hi. I had an old computer running Windows ME. But I made some improvements, and I would like to put XP on it. However, after installing XP, the CDs with the drivers and utilities don't work anymore. (One has the 'Setup' option disabled, and the other can't find some registry entry and won't allow me to run 'Setup' properly.) I only get a refresh rate of 60 Hz, and there's no audio. I downloaded AIDA32, but I still don't know where to find the right drivers. Can someone point me in the right direction, please?
I'm really not surprised they don't work.. and without any ideas whatsoever about the hardware you have (apart from it being so old xp probably will just crash all the time anyway unless you are lucky and have a cpu with an l2 cache.. any less than a pentium3-450 with 256 ram sorry to say you are wasting your time..) there is nothing we can do. why don't you try win2k.. that's more realistic on an antique.
Hi. Oh, well, it's not that antique. The processor has over 1 GHz speed, and, if I'm not mistaken, I think I have 512 MB RAM. It updated to Service Pack 3, through the Microsoft site, just fine. I bought it after XP was released, but it came with ME installed. Oh, well... By the way, in AIDA32, I looked at Computer>Summary, and then I looked at Display (under the 'Field' column). It directed me to the Silicon Integrated Systems Corporation website. So, I downloaded all the drivers I could find for XP there (including Audio, IDE, etc.) Would those be the right ones to use? Thanks.
Hey, how about if I re-install ME (and all the good drivers), and then I use the XP CD to 'Upgrade to Windows XP'? That should keep the sound and everything, no?
yes but found it to take longer to do the upgrade then do a fresh install. what is the make & model# of the pc or motherboard?
Thanks again for offering to help, Ddp! It was the same motherboard as the previous thread I created - ATX PC100 (as far as I know). But I managed to find the audio driver for XP, eventually. It was a SiS 7012, or something like that. The CD only worked with ME, 2000, and older systems. In XP, 'Setup' would say that there was a problem with "HKEY_DYN_DATA/Config Manager/Enum" and then the install options were all disabled (I mean options like 'VGA', 'Devices' and 'Applications' - they all had 0 Kb and no sub-options). But it's all good now.
