I just got my first computer built and I am having some troubles with drivers. I have a 1700+, Nf7-s rev2, and a Radeon 9500 NP. I installed win98SE. I had some issues installing the motherboard drivers. I was asked to insert my windows CD, I did this but it did not recognize it. I finally got the motherboard drivers to install by pointing the program to the win98 directory on the windows CD. I am not sure if they installed correctly. Now when I boot into windows it searches for drivers for a PCI universal serial bus and a PCI Ethernet controller. I am not sure where these drivers are. I put in both the win98 CD and the Abit CD and did the autosearch for drivers. None where found. Each time I boot it searches for hardware and then asks for drivers.
So after this I decided to reinstall my motherboard drivers. I am able to start this process but after I get about a quarter of the way through windows again detects new hardware and asks for the drivers. I can not get past this point. So I am stuck as what to do next.
Also I am not sure if this is related but when i click on the nforce tray options I get a message which says "Failed to initialize the nvidia audio driver. Please install and try again” I am able to get windows sounds and play mp3s, but I am not able to start any of the 3 games I have tried.
Thanks for your patience and advice.
So after this I decided to reinstall my motherboard drivers. I am able to start this process but after I get about a quarter of the way through windows again detects new hardware and asks for the drivers. I can not get past this point. So I am stuck as what to do next.
Also I am not sure if this is related but when i click on the nforce tray options I get a message which says "Failed to initialize the nvidia audio driver. Please install and try again” I am able to get windows sounds and play mp3s, but I am not able to start any of the 3 games I have tried.
Thanks for your patience and advice.