Vista Help

S3S6 · Joined: Jan 13, 2008 Posts: 3

Ok, I recently got Windows Vista Ultimate. I had Windows XP on my machine before that.

When I got Windows Vista, I formatted my hard drive and made it into 2 partitions, one for XP and one for Vista. First I installed XP on one partition, then I install Vista on the other.

Before getting Vista I downloaded the drivers for my Ethernet, Graphics etc. When Vista was fully installed, I wanted to connect to the internet. I had a few problems. 1. I didn't know where to find the connections to see if anything was connected yet. 2. The drivers for my Ethernet wouldn't work. After getting nowhere on that, I realized there was no sound because the Audio Drivers weren't installed.

(P.S. My motherboard is an Asus P5P800 With on board Ethernet and Audio.)

I went and got my Asus motherboard CD that came with the motherboard. I tried installing both the Audio and the Ethernet but when I tried, both said that the Operating System wasn't supported.

So in the end, I formatted again and just installed XP on the hard drive with just one partition.

My first question is, if I upgrade from XP to Vista, instead of doing a clean install, will my drivers that I've already installed on XP, work with Vista?

My Second question is if anybody has time, or if anybody knows of Vista drivers for:

Marvell 88E8001 Gigabit LAN Controller -- Ethernet

and

ADI 1985 6-Channel CODEC, Sound Blaster upgradeable -- Audio

Thanks for any help Smile

Docs · Joined: Feb 27, 2008 Posts: 4

heres the deal as stupid as this may sound its worked for me a couple of times... sometimes the problem isnt with the driver but it is the problem with the autoinstaller that launches when you put the cd into the drive so i would try navigating to the audio and ethernet drivers manually in the cd and then launching their separate installers one by one because on several occasions this has worked for me perfectly