Re: SP3 removes all devices in Device Manager - no LAN anymore
- From: "Jaime" <jaimelobo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 09:46:53 -0400
XP Media Center is actually XP Pro, so Media Center to Home would not be considered an "upgrade", you would have to do a clean install. However, your XP Home license belongs to your desktop and can not be reused on another system anyway.
Actually you probably physically can't do it anyway, depending on the brand of the desktop, the copy of Home is probably "branded" and can't be installed on another system.
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James
Orlando (Goofy says "Hey"), Florida
"Tom1973" <Tom1973@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:A4E9E4F4-7FE8-4B5B-8108-78ECA829EA45@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hello,
Apologies if this repeats an existing question - I've had a browse through
and can't find one.
However, I have installed XPSP3 on my Vaio laptop running XP Media Centre
Edition (SP2 to the best of my knowledge) having been prompted to do so by
Windows Update and having successfully done so on my desktop PC.
However, I discovered that I could no longer connect over Ethernet to my
desktop, nor could I connect with any of my Bluetooth devices.
I looked in Device Manager and it is blank - not even an entry for
motherboard or CPU!
It looks like all the drivers have gone but fortunately backed up the driver
cache to DVD when I bought the Vaio so I could free up the HDD space.
However, as I've been trying to reinstall them it looks more like they are
all still there. Perhaps this is a registry issue?
Additionally, Add New Hardware does not find any new hardware but using the
Have Disk option allows it to see, say, LAN drivers in the .inf file.
However, there are a lot listed and I've no idea which one is in the machine!
Being a Sony there's no paperwork with it beyond a brief Getting Started
guide.
I have run Vaio Update and it has updated some drivers and said it can't
update some others (including LAN). I have run driver installs that come with
a setup file but, in the case of the Bluetooth, it gets so far and asks me to
connect the BT device and click OK, with this request repeated if I click
okay. Well, the BT is built in and switched on, so...
The same with the wireless LAN driver - it installs but there is still no
wireless LAN.
I contacted Sony Support and they've said that it is a SP3 issue.
Will uninstalling SP3 fix this (can't see how but you never know your luck!)
or am I going to have to fall back on the recovery partition and basically
start again as if the machine was out of the box, reinstalling all my
applications and so on?
Alternatively, can I use the XP Home installation disk that came with my
desktop to put XP Home over Media Centre (don't really make use of the
MCE-specific features, so not bothered) as if I was upgrading from say, Win98
to XP, preserving my post-factory applications, etc?
Any help greatly appreciated, thanks.
.
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