ASUS P4P800 Problems

Frozenwings · Aug 6, 2005

Hello, I recently had a video card die and I've just found my old card. But now some new problems have come up. After a fresh install of windows, I loaded up the mobo driver CD. I find that my onboard ethernet is read as "PCI device" instead of ethernet controller, and after installing the onboard sound, I get no sound. I can't seem to install any new PCI device either. I had an old sound card and even bought a new ethernet card today. Both are recognized, but I cant install the drivers for either. I get a message saying that it could not be installed, yet I manually chose the folder to search for it. It doesn't even look like it tries to search for the driver. I've reformatted the same hard drive with this mobo about 3 or 4 times in the past 2 years, and have never had a problem reinstalling the drivers. I flashed the bios to the newest version, and even installed the newest chipset (865) drivers from intel. I think there is something wrong with the plug and play feature. Does anyone have any ideas? I really don't feel like buying another motherboard. Thanks a lot for any help.

RangerXLT8 · Aug 6, 2005

Frozenwings said:
Hello, I recently had a video card die and I've just found my old card. But now some new problems have come up. After a fresh install of windows, I loaded up the mobo driver CD. I find that my onboard ethernet is read as "PCI device" instead of ethernet controller, and after installing the onboard sound, I get no sound. I can't seem to install any new PCI device either. I had an old sound card and even bought a new ethernet card today. Both are recognized, but I cant install the drivers for either. I get a message saying that it could not be installed, yet I manually chose the folder to search for it. It doesn't even look like it tries to search for the driver. I've reformatted the same hard drive with this mobo about 3 or 4 times in the past 2 years, and have never had a problem reinstalling the drivers. I flashed the bios to the newest version, and even installed the newest chipset (865) drivers from intel. I think there is something wrong with the plug and play feature. Does anyone have any ideas? I really don't feel like buying another motherboard. Thanks a lot for any help.

Well from what I understand, the ethernet controller aswell as some other deviceswill come up as a "pci device" because it's all run off of the pci bus. You must install the pci bus drivers first, then It will say"found new ethernet controller". Just my .02.

Frozenwings · Aug 7, 2005

As far as I can tell, the drivers for the PCI bus are installed. I'm pretty sure those are covered in the chipset drivers. Like I said, I normally just pop in the driver cd and load up the chipset, audio and ethernet drivers. I don't know what is so different this time. Could it be that something happened to my motherboard and that is what killed my video card? As far as I can tell, the AGP slot is fine as I can update my video card drivers. Maybe something happened to the chipset, but I was under the impression that if the chipset died, that the mobo would too. Who knows?

zulfy26 · Aug 7, 2005

I've had alot of problems with my board as well. Mostly regarding USB usage ... :-X. All my USB hubs still act as USB 1.1, even though the 2.0 drivers were installed from the CD. (on my 3rd board ta-boot)

i'd suggest just letting windows "search" for drivers, or try a new fresh installation of windows.

Duster · Aug 8, 2005

Hi,
Did you have the problems before or after you flashed the BIOS?

Frozenwings · Aug 8, 2005

I had the problems before, but I was hoping that flashing the bios would help. I think I might just buy a new motherboard. I've tried just about everything you can do, and I'm willing to bet something just died on my motherboard.

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