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December 6th, 2007 20:00
Drivers missing and more
I was forced to reinstall the OS on my Dell DIM 9150 (dual core, 250GB SATA
HD) with XP PRO (it came with XP Home installed). The reason was that I had a
persistant malware that messed up my internet security which I just couldn't
eliminate. My university has a MS site license so XP PRO was available
gratis. With the DELL factory set up the install procedure failed to see the SATA.
In SETUP under DRIVES there are: DISKETTE DRIVE, DRIVE 0: SATA- 0, DRIVE 1:
SATA- 1, DRIVE 2: SATA- 2, DRIVE 3: SATA- 3, DRIVE 4: PATA- 0, DRIVE 5: PATA-
1, SATA OPERATION. In this last category there are 4 options: RAID Auotdetect
/AHCI, RAID Autodetect /ATA, RAID ON, Combination = SATA/PATA combinatin
mode. THe factory setting was RAID Auotdetect /AHCI. A colleague (allegedly
more knowledgeable) suggested that that I select the SATA/PATA combination
mode and switch back after installation was complete. I did so, but found
that the new OS would not boot after this change back . So back to the setup with
SATA OPERATION set for SATA/PATA comb. I attempted to reinstall my
operational software. Unfortunately the system refused to recognize my
internet adapter and, moreover, all of the OTHER DEVICES (PCI DEVICE,
Parallel, Serial Ports, etc.) showed YELLOW ? marks in DEVICE MANAGER
indicating that no drivers had been assigned. Well I spent almost an entire
day trying to get the system to find the new hardware (Network adapter) and
to find drivers but nothing seems to work.
HD) with XP PRO (it came with XP Home installed). The reason was that I had a
persistant malware that messed up my internet security which I just couldn't
eliminate. My university has a MS site license so XP PRO was available
gratis. With the DELL factory set up the install procedure failed to see the SATA.
In SETUP under DRIVES there are: DISKETTE DRIVE, DRIVE 0: SATA- 0, DRIVE 1:
SATA- 1, DRIVE 2: SATA- 2, DRIVE 3: SATA- 3, DRIVE 4: PATA- 0, DRIVE 5: PATA-
1, SATA OPERATION. In this last category there are 4 options: RAID Auotdetect
/AHCI, RAID Autodetect /ATA, RAID ON, Combination = SATA/PATA combinatin
mode. THe factory setting was RAID Auotdetect /AHCI. A colleague (allegedly
more knowledgeable) suggested that that I select the SATA/PATA combination
mode and switch back after installation was complete. I did so, but found
that the new OS would not boot after this change back . So back to the setup with
SATA OPERATION set for SATA/PATA comb. I attempted to reinstall my
operational software. Unfortunately the system refused to recognize my
internet adapter and, moreover, all of the OTHER DEVICES (PCI DEVICE,
Parallel, Serial Ports, etc.) showed YELLOW ? marks in DEVICE MANAGER
indicating that no drivers had been assigned. Well I spent almost an entire
day trying to get the system to find the new hardware (Network adapter) and
to find drivers but nothing seems to work.
Starting over I reinstalled the XP-Home OS with Dell's disk,which would proceed only with the setting in the SATA/PATA comb position and on startup I get a message saying that SATA Drive 2 is unrecognized, press F1 to continue, afterwhich XP-Home did come up. However the same problem persists, that is, no drivers are loaded for the internet adapter or the other devices.....I am at a standstill until I get these items working.....I apologize for this sad long winded tale, but I do need some help and advice from the DELL experts....Thanks.....Cincidave
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