Re: CD Help

Hi Exec,

unless you have another computer which is working and has access to the Internet, I suggest the following.
While you still can, surf to the ASUS site and download all the drivers for your motherboard.
Then go to the site of your network card and download the driver for your network card.
Go to other sites as necessary (audio, graphics, modem, wireless etc).
Copy all your downloaded drivers to the USB stick.
Also make sure to copy all your documents and important data to a safe place (maybe USB drive or another internal hard disk)
Get your Vista DVD.
Reboot your PC with Vista DVD in. During booting, your system will not use any drivers, it will use built-in BIOS routines to access it. Also, during boot, you may be presented with a prompt "Press any key to boot from DVD". Press any key. You will be presented with option to install Vista. Choose "Custom install". During custom install you will have option to reformat disk. Reformat disk and start installation process.
When Vista is installed, install all the drivers you downloaded during first steps.
There is no special driver for DVD. It is usualy included in the chipset driver.
Having finished installation of Vista and drivers, you will have to reinstall all your applications (games, programs etc). After that, copy back your data (documents, photos etc.).

If all this scares you, try to find some help from your friends, neighbours, PC repair shop or whatever.
It may be a good idea to buy a new hard disk and do reinstallation on this new disk. You can connect your present disk as a second disk in your system. This way you're sure you won't lose anything that's stored on your old disk. After all, disks are not too expensive these days.

Good luck
<exec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:5528908a-417a-4a36-8d3b-09e0c5674fe3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hi,

I posted this elsewhere, but I need people to see it and maybe help
before I do the re-install.........

I've run out of options. I am running Vista Home 32. Everything has
been good for over a year. Then, all of a sudden 2 days ago my CD/
DVD's disappear. They are seen fine in the BIOS, but there is no IDE
or CD/DVD in the Decive Manager.

I'm seeing that 7026 error in the event log. I've tried over 20
suggestions from the internet, did a system restore from 3 weeks
ago........nothing is working.

So, I think it is time to re-install and see what happens. Problem:
I have an ASUS P5B motherboard, no CD. I cannot fund the driver CD
that came with it......so, how do I re-install??? I mean, once I re-
install, how will Windows be able to install the Network Drivers and
so on.......

I cannot find anything on ASUS's site, nothing at all.........

Can anyone offer anything?

Thanks!

.

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