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Major problems, please help

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From: jonathan.beasley
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 00:00
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I have just formatted my system as it was playing up severly.
Anyway, re-installed it all fine but for one thing, when it went though the
> plug and play thingy, it has decided not to reconise my modem and sound
card -
> and has left four conflicts on Device Manager under UNKNOWN DEVICE.  one
is a
> PCI Card, another is Audio card (something like that) and two on USB
device.
> All of which has no drivers installed.  I have tried every disk, floppy
and
> CD-rom which could have them on  to no avail and this includes the driver
disk
> that came with the PC.
>
> The sound card and Modem are not listed.
>
> When I go into install the modem it doesn't reconise it, and ask me to
choose
> it from a list.  There is a million and one on there and I havn't a clue
which
> one it could be.   I have tried what I thought it was but when launching
> Exployer it gives a error message and advise I have done a illegal
operation
> and closes down.
>
> I have had the thought that if I can just get online I'll be able to
downlaod
> all drivers for the sound card from Mircosoft.
>
>
> I also get a error message up on start up that might as well be in
chinese.
>
>I may even bundle it back to Time and ask them to deal
> with it under the warrentry, but I couldn't imagine seeing it for a few
months

Any help would be most appreciated
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