Reinstalling XP Pro... help

[Valdemar]

The device manager indicated that nothing had drivers.. as in LAN, sound and so on... got the driver to the ethernet working and is now installing Win XP SPs and updates, will fix remaining drivers later if the Win Update doesn't handle it

Thanks fellas for the tips and advice

V

[Darth Wagtaros]

If it is a built in LAN, that is part of the mobo or just a PCI you'll need the drivers. XP does not have all the drivers, remember that XP came out a good number of years ago now.

All right, but shouldn't it put a default driver in, just like it does for mouse, monitor and so on?

IF I can find the drivers somehow, then how do I install them then? Windows seems unable to recognise there even IS a card avaialbe, much less that it needs drivers, the hardware wizrds are at a loss

V

Nope.  Keyboards and mice generally are standard enough that generally won't need manufacturer supplied drivers just to work.  But there is a wide variety of NICS and motherboards out there. 

[Valdemar]

Further, equipping the new old PC..


Whats the best, and least ressource hugging free Antivir to install?

V

[Cerr]

Further, equipping the new old PC..


Whats the best, and least ressource hugging free Antivir to install?

V

Avira AntiVir.

[Barrister]

Macbooks are for pretty boyz or care about their flaire.  This ain't the 90s when Macs meant good hardware.

Actually the new MacBook Pro line looks to have very good hardware.   

Top players don't always work well together, as was discovered in the case of S' MacBook Pro (video chipset problems). Anyway, they're now using the same "very good hardware" that you can get optioned into a PC. It boils down to whether you want to pay for the name and a few pretty but useless bells and whistles.

Uh, no.  The Unibody construction is more than just pretty.  Multi-touch is more than a bell and whistle.  You can't get that stuff on a PC - and thats putting aside OS X.

[garbon]

Multi-touch is more than a bell and whistle.

It fundamentally changes the way that people use computers.