Reinstallation of windows missing drivers problem

Jimpowers79

Jimpowers79

Jimpowers79

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Hello apologies first off as i know very little of what i'm doing...

I've had the same installation of windows xp SP3 on my dell dimension 5150 for the last four years and wanted a clean install. I created a windows boot disc and successfully installed windows on a 2nd HD. However, the following drivers are missing (including the ethernet controller which is preventing me from going online to find the correct driver). The following drivers are missing...

Ethernet controller
PCI device
JM bus controller
Video controller
Video controller (VGA compatible)

my computers spec (don't laugh!):

Pentium (R) 4 CPU 3.20 GHz
3.19 GHz, 1.00 GB of RAM

Any suggestions?
 
Just use another computer to download the required drivers and then put them on a CD/Floppy Disk/PenDrive.
 
I've had a quick look on the dell website and they have the drivers you require on the dell website under Support / Drivers and Downloads
 
I tried to do this recently using my other HD, i downloaded some drivers from the dell website but when i go to the device manager and click to reinstall a particular driver, they do not appear in the folders where they are stored; it can't find them.
 
After you double-click the .exe files, they will normally be extracted to C:\Dell\Drivers or similar. The last few times I have dealt with Dell machines the Driver installation kicks off after extraction. If not, just go to the folder and run the setup.exe you find in each folder.
 
Hello again,

I managed to install all the drivers accept for the ethernet controller... will check dell site again, but couldn't find a driver for this. What would it come under?

would this be it?...

Conexant D850 56K V.9X PCI DF Modem ULD
 
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Nice on that sorted it!

just another question if i may? Is it possible to have two harddrives connected, each having a windows startup? Would the other hd's content be accessible from the other?
 
This will work just fine.

If the two Operating Systems were installed separately, you will need to change which HDD boots first in the BIOS if you want to change which installation you want to boot from.

However, the data on the other HDD will be accessible via the other OS without any issue.
 
I connected the other HDD using a spare data cable in the remaining slot on the motherboard, and attached the spare power cable shared with the old HDD. However, when i boot (in the BIOS it is set to boot from the old drive) the new drive is not visible on my computer. Have i done something wrong with the installation of the drive?

Could it be due to differences in file system type? my old drive is NTFS, if the other drive were different would this cause the problem?
 
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Are both of the ports enabled in the BIOS? I know with Dell servers they disable the unused ports by default

Check in Device Manager for the drive

Also check Disk Management (right click My Computer, Manage, Disk Management -don't fiddle in here you can delete partitions etc..) to see if both drives are showing
 
Hi, i checked the disk management. it displays three volumes of what i assume are the same drive (my old drive), i guess these are the partitions on my old drive?

63 MB FAT
3.00 GB FAT32
145.95 GB NTFS

I guess the other drive isn't showing, will check in BIOS to see if the other port is active.
Cheers for the reply.
 
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