still no fix?

Question

Windows XP Home , no sound or Ethernet after re -installiing OS , All drivers are installed , and enabeled . My ethernet device as well as sound device , video , and modem are all sitting on IRQ 11, these are listed in system info as forced hardware . And when i try to play a cd it tells me there is no playback device installed. no drivers instaled because the device has a problem. (This an Intell 954G)
chipset GMA900 . This is a DX300S , Intell Motherboard.

Answer 1

go ahead and set the default bios settings.
uninstall all the drivers u installed, restart ur computer.
if it doesnt detect it automatically, go ahead and install those drivers with the manufacturer cds.
update those online.

Answer 2

Windows XP may not be your problem. If all your devices are on board I would use the Mother board CD for installing all my devices and remove whatever drivers windows may have installed automatically.

If all your devices are separate I would contact the manufacturer of each device and get the drivers that way.

If that doesn't work I would call manufacturer support for the device or swap devices.

Answer 3

Did you re-install the drivers for the DVD/CD player? Go to device manager and uninstall the optical drive and then reboot the computer. That will reload the drivers for the drive. Did you use the original mobo driver CD to reinstall the mobo drivers? If you still have problems, get the mobo drivers from Intel's web site. If you still have problems, your mobo may be toast. The "southbridge" chip on the mobo may have crapped out.

Answer 4

have you gone to the device manager and opened the resource tab for each and tried to manualy change the settings?

Answer 5

well, for your ethernet, to to the command prompt and type:

Ping 127.0.0.1 or ping Loopback.

This will tell you if your ethernet card is working as will as test you TCP/IP protocol stack.