I recently built a computer and installed XP Pro. I tried installing the drivers for the ethernet ports and they installed alright, but I rebooted the computer and no LAN connection was detected and no ethernet cards were either. I decided to do a clean install of XP Pro, so I did, but when I erased the original partition on the hard drive, I was unable to format the hard disk afterwards and got some blue screen error saying something like "hard disk failure"... I plan on buying a new hard drive, but am still worried about the ethernet card not working like last time. BIOS detects the dvd burner, the dead hard drive, processor, RAM and video card worked alright as well when XP did work.
My system info:
Asus M2N-SLi Deluxe motherboard
West. Dig. Caviar 250gig HD (the one that is dead)
AMD Athlon64x2 5200+
wintec ampX DDR2 800 RAM
2007-02-17 10:45:38 · 1 answers · asked by F1reflyfan 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
try reformatting and installing again
2007-02-17 11:01:50 · answer #1 · answered by andrewed1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋