Fresh Reformat and funny things happen.

[Guest]

I did a reformat. I attempted to make 3 partitions and install windows onto
one. When windows was installing on this partition I got a lot of errors for
drivers. One even said something like can't install system. It let me keep
going so I did. After it finished it would start to load windows but keep
rebooting. I gave up on the multiple partitions and reformatted again.

I have to Serial ATA harddrives. Before I reformatted I moved all the
latest drivers I would need for everything onto HDD2. This new reformat with
one partition seemed to work flawlessly. I installed everything and it was
working great. This was yesterday, then today I started getting some of the
quirks that happened before I formatted. I have onboard audigy live 24 bit.
I installed these drivers. Worked fine yesterday but before I reformatted an
problem happens again today is... I will come back to my computer after a
while and sound won't work. In device manager I have something under Sound
with a name like Microsoft Kernell something as well as my normal audigy
driver and a few other media devices. The Microsoft device is yellow and
inorder for sound to work again I have to Unistall that device and scan
hardware and it automaticaly installs something before I can tell what it
did. No idea why it does this. Also how can I find out if anything can be
wrong with my hard drive. Error detection only takes 1 minute on my 120 gig
harddrive and doesn't say anything

 

[Guest]

have you performed an update from microsoft.com? maybe you can simply remove
any none vital devices from hardware manager and let windows add them in or
simply keep them disabled until you can get the drivers that work for them.
Then doing a windows setup > new install > repair might not be a bad
idea..... Sometimes conflicts among the drivers will make windows act funny.
Check out system info "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft
Shared\MSInfo\msinfo32.exe" for clues....

 

[POP]

have you performed an update from microsoft.com? maybe you
can simply remove any none vital devices from hardware
manager and let windows add them in or simply keep them
disabled until you can get the drivers that work for them.
Then doing a windows setup > new install > repair might not
be a bad idea..... Sometimes conflicts among the drivers
will make windows act funny. Check out system info
"C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft
Shared\MSInfo\msinfo32.exe" for clues....

And if you end up reinstalling again, disconnect all the
equipment connected to the computer while you do the install.
After the install, add them back, one at a time, and let them
resintall that way. I've had that mess up installs and it's a
recommended action I noticed eventually.

HTH
Pop