Driver loading problems

[Noel S Pamfree]

A technical member of staff left our small company after an argument. Since
then we have had lots of problems with one stand-alone pc. We are fairly
certain he did something nasty to the machine but we don't know what.

We have replaced the hard drive and re-installed XP Professional but it
still keeps saying it can't load basic drivers like CD, DVD drive etc.

Could anything have been done to the BIOS to cause this problem.

Any help or suggestions gratefully received.

Noel

 

[Mike Hall \(MS-MVP\)]

Go into BIOS and set it to OPTIMAL.. that will reset everything in BIOS to
defaults that put no pressure on the system..

 

[Noel S Pamfree]

Thanks.

I have managed to get into the BIOS but I can't find anything obvious to
reset it to factory settings or optimum.

Can you suggest anything else I could look for?

Thanks,


Noel

 

[Mike Hall \(MS-MVP\)]

Noel

You should find it in the section 'Load BIOS defaults'.. if you have a
motherboard manual, there is a section that covers this..

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Mike Hall
MVP - Windows Shell/user