[Lancaster] Problem with Windows XP (Sorry)

[Ken Hough]

On Monday 07 December 2009 18:17:32 Wayne Ward wrote:
> Horrible stuff ken

I agree !!!

> - this is how we do it.. 
>
> Go to device manager and try and get a list of yellow flagged devices.
> Write them down - you should have - sound - vga - chipset or other...

I've been there. I've (tried to) install the chipset drivers that came with 
the mobo, but all to no avail.

>
> then boot back into debian and and type lspci and this will give you a list
> of devices and the
> version numbers so you might see intel ac97 audio device this is easy to
> solve

As I said, there are no problems under Linux (ie Debian).

>
> if you give me the lspci list ill try help you - you should have got a disk
> with the mobo

As stated above, I tried to install drivers from the disk which came with the 
mobo.

> failing that asus should give driver support - but im certain your looking
> at around 3 drivers maybe
> pretty straight forward let me know the lspci list
>
> windows sucks.

Definitely !!!

See you tonight

Ken Hough


>
> regards
> wayne
>
>
> On Mon, 7 Dec 2009 18:07:52 +0000, Ken Hough <kenhough at btinternet.com>
>
> wrote:
> > Sorry to mention XP on this site, but I've got a problem.
> >
> > My quad core based PC is no longer working properly with Win XP although
> > it's
> > perfectly OK with 64 bit Debian Lenny. I've done repeated installs of XP,
> >
> > reformating the partition on each occasion, so I know that I've had clean
> >
> > installs and Win XP seems to run OK.
> >
> > The mobo is an Asus P5K SE EPU. This includes slots for both PCI and PCI
> > Express cards. My graphics card is PCI express and I have two PCI cards
> > inserted as follows:
> >
> > -- a PCI Parallel printer port.  This modo doesn't have an on board
> > parallel
> > port
> >
> > -- a WinTV Nova TD500 digital TV card
> >
> > Win XP doesn't recognise the PCI cards and software for the on-board
>
> sound
>
> > system cannot find the on board sound card. Everything is enabled in the
> > BIOS.
> >
> > All of the hadware is recognised and correctly set up via Linux, so what
>
> is
>
> > going on?
> >
> > Of course Win XP runs OK via VirualBox, but I need access to hardware
>
> other
>
> > than just USB ports.
> >
> > Ken Hough
> >
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