Device Manager errors

[teebird]

After getting a virus on my computer - I had to wipe the hard drive and start again. I used a Win98 startup disk, Partioned my drive and then formated the C: drive and installed Win98 SE.

I do not have the installation disks for the motherboard and I am not sure if this is causing my problems. My computer is very slow and the display is only 16 colours. The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-8s661FXM-RZ Chipset and the CPU is a Intel Celeron 2433 mhz (24 x 101). I did try to install WinXP but it created more problems than it solved.

I have 4 devices that are not working properly.

PCI Ethernet Controller
Composite USB Device
PCI Multimedia Audio Device
PCI Universal Serial Bus

Can advise would be great.

Tee.

 

[micker377]

The motherboard setup is definitely needed for those hardware parts of the mobo. You can usually download them from the Gigabyte/support site on the net.

 

[garebo]

What micker said for sure!

Its likely on this page, but doublecheck for yourself.

http://www.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/Support/Driver/Driver_GA-8S661FXM.htm

You download and install them and all should be well.
You can go back to the main support page and download a lot more docs and other info there as well for your motherboard, the more info the better!


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[Gloryhound]

Seems you also have a video driver problem as well. If the Video adapter driver had installed your should be seeing the default 256 colors for win 98se

 

[garebo]

I imagine that once you download and install the mobo drivers then all will be well.

Since you have already formatted your drive, this would be for the future. When i get a pc that has a virus\trojan\malware and i have no choice but to reformat i dont just reformat the hard drive. I get the mfgr's diagnostic program and use the "write zeroes to hard drive" program that is part of the diagnostic program. I was told to do this and my hope is that it helps get rid of any virii\trojan or other malware that can survive a formatting of the hard drive. If anything survives it usually survives in the boot sector. Im not sure yet if the "zero" program writes to the boot sector but i can tell you that using the zero prog i havent run into a virus\bug that has survived a reformatting. But i do know that some of these can indeed survive a reformat.




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