Alright, let me explain my situation. I found an old 40g ATA hard drive to use after my other hard drive recently crashed.
I deleted the old partition of Windows XP on it, and reinstalled a fresh Windows XP Professional 2002 on it (it was the only XP disk of mine I could find.
After the install, the OS works fine, but I have no sound, instead of reading my ethernet port it is reading a connected 1394 connection (wtf? even without the cable plugged in, it's reading it as active), not reading my graphics card, monitor, and is randomly saying I have 5 drives (I assume it is reading my various media input drives as actual drives).
Can anyone help me get my computer up and running again? Internet functioning, reading everything properly, etc.. or have any clue what exactly my problems are?
My computer was bought 2 years ago, here are the specs:
Gateway 5200S
3.0ghz p4 processor
1.5g RAM
Radeon X600 PCI-E graphics card
Intel 915GAG motherboard
Please help! All help is appreciated!
Also, last night, I installed an updated version of my BIOS, and now my fan won't stop running.. and it's real loud.
I deleted the old partition of Windows XP on it, and reinstalled a fresh Windows XP Professional 2002 on it (it was the only XP disk of mine I could find.
After the install, the OS works fine, but I have no sound, instead of reading my ethernet port it is reading a connected 1394 connection (wtf? even without the cable plugged in, it's reading it as active), not reading my graphics card, monitor, and is randomly saying I have 5 drives (I assume it is reading my various media input drives as actual drives).
Can anyone help me get my computer up and running again? Internet functioning, reading everything properly, etc.. or have any clue what exactly my problems are?
My computer was bought 2 years ago, here are the specs:
Gateway 5200S
3.0ghz p4 processor
1.5g RAM
Radeon X600 PCI-E graphics card
Intel 915GAG motherboard
Please help! All help is appreciated!
Also, last night, I installed an updated version of my BIOS, and now my fan won't stop running.. and it's real loud.