Last night, I constructed a new box which included an ASUS P5N-D LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 750i SLI ATX motherboard. Before I did anything, I flashed the Bios to the most recent version as it was said to fix a lot of memory handling errors that occurred.
The installation of Windows was very smooth but since my disc is from the early release of Xp Professional, it is pre-SP1. Therefore, before I began doing any of the driver or software installations, I dropped the Ethernet driver in place and downloaded the service packs. After the service packs were installed, I began installing drivers for my Nvidia GeForce 8800GT OC, my chipset drivers, and finally my sound.
While all other drivers went in effortlessly and immediately began producing expected results; However, the sound card errored out during installation. It appears to have gotten drivers from the windows update website. I downloaded the most recent drivers from Asus support and attempted to install but had no success. The device manager recognizes that the drivers are not functioning with the little yellow “!” and the hardware wizard is constantly “detecting new hardware”.
I believe the solution is to unregister the drivers from the device and remove them but the ‘Uninstall’ button doesn’t completely remove them. How do I make the system register it as “Unknown hardware” again? Would unregistering the device and installing manufacturer drivers fix my problem? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
