Unmountable Boot Volume?

The only thing I was able to install though Add Hardware was "Microsoft
Loopback Adapter", which is the network hardware I believe. Remaining
question marks are "Ethernet Controller, PCI Device, Modem Device, Video
Controller and Universal Serial Bus. I downloaded all the drivers marked
"urgent" from A
href="http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&ServiceTag= DDPWP81&SystemID=Dimension%205150/E510&os=WW1&osl=en&catid=&impid="this/a
page of the DELL site, that being the Intel Chipset and Network drivers (The
rest being optional), extracted them onto my computer, restarted, no result.

I've never done this before and methinks I'll probably be consulting a PC
repair place pretty soon. Sad, but I'm simply tired of dealing with this
stuff. I needed my computer running weeks ago and I'm losing money over this.
Thanks for all the help any way, folks.

"JS" wrote:

When you installed XP you most likely did a "Clean Install".
If yes then you need to install the motherboard chipset
and other device drivers, one of which will be for your
network adaptor.

Use 'Device Manager' to look for any yellow question marks

Since you need to get above mentioned drivers,
ask your friend to download the XP drivers (and there will be
a number of them) from Dell's web site for your specific make and model.

--
JS
http://www.pagestart.com



"Damon" wrote in message
...
Alright, bought a new hard-drive (WD CAVIAR SE 160GM SATA HD 7200RPM 8MB
3.5LP 3YR), installed hardware, installed WinXP Pro, and that's all well
and
good...

...but I can't seem to connect to the internet to proceed with
updating/bringing it up to standard. Our ISP is Comcast Broadband, and
I've
used it successfully on the same computer in the past. It's always on and
we
reset the network several times, but no matter what when I hook the
network
cable up to my computer, and it lights up, nothing happens in Windows.
Nothing pops up telling me "new connection detected" or anything. "New
Connection Wizard" is useless; it tells me no network or even network
hardware can be detected. Which is odd, because I have used our Comcast
network flawlessly on my computer in the past (before the new HD and OS);
nothing shows up in the Connection Settings window. Yes, everything is
plugged in where it is supposed to be.

Any ideas? I know this seems off topic at this point but now that I have a
new HD that problem is more or less solved, and if I can get online then I
can easily take it from here.

Thanks,

D

"JS" wrote:

Yes,

If the Dell BIOS has an option to
disable automatic reboot on error then do so.
You might get a better look at the error message.

If that doesn't work then try another hard drive.

--
JS
http://www.pagestart.com



"Damon" wrote in message
...
Alright, my friend lent me a Windows XP Pro CD (mine is Media Center
Edition
but whatever) and I ran the chkdsk /r and /p function from the F2
Repair
Console and the Recovery Console, after a few minutes of dicking around
the
computer restarted and now it won't even load to the Windows logo, now
I
get
the DELL logo with the little loading bar and then the monitor reboots
and
a
message flashes quickly on the screen, something about "invalid this"
and
"reading from" that... Then I get the DELL logo again and so on and so
forth
into eternity.

So I went into the Windows installation tool to just do an overwrite
install
of XP Pro and it said the data on the selected drive (and the only
drive,
C:/
but apparently unidentifiable) is too damaged to do an augmented
install,
that it will have to do a full reformat, okay, so I tell it to format
and
I
try both the "quick" option and the regular option, both times on the
blue
screen when the yellow bar gets to the end and it says "setting up
files
for
install" afterward the computer restarts and I just get the DELL logo
over
and over and over again like before.

So now my computer is even more screwed. Great. Any ideas or is it time
to
invest in a custom built rig?

D

"Damon" wrote:

My friend dug out an old XP CD for me to use so at the very least I
can
reformat I guess.

D

"JS" wrote:

It's still worth a try as I found one Dell CD
that worked fine on two different models.

--
JS
http://www.pagestart.com



"Bennett Marco" wrote in message
news Damon wrote:

Well, I can't find either my XP CD or my Dell Utilities CD... I'm
going to
have my mom send hers up from San Diego but otherwise it looks
like
I'm
screwed.

If she doesn't have the EXACT same computer you're DEFINITELY
screwed.

Extracting those files is one half of the process.

Now that you extracted each of the driver files
(each to it's own directory).

1) The chipset driver should be a self installing .exe file
that you run and then reboot the PC.

2) Next go back into Device Manger and for each device that
has a question mark, starting the 'Ethernet Controller' right
click and select 'Update Driver' and choose the option to
select the location of the driver, which would be the directory
where you extracted the Ethernet drive. This should get your
Internet connectivity back. Then work on installing the other drivers.

--
JS
http://www.pagestart.com



"Damon" wrote in message
...
The only thing I was able to install though Add Hardware was "Microsoft
Loopback Adapter", which is the network hardware I believe. Remaining
question marks are "Ethernet Controller, PCI Device, Modem Device, Video
Controller and Universal Serial Bus. I downloaded all the drivers marked
"urgent" from A
href="http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&ServiceTag= DDPWP81&SystemID=Dimension%205150/E510&os=WW1&osl=en&catid=&impid="this/a
page of the DELL site, that being the Intel Chipset and Network drivers
(The
rest being optional), extracted them onto my computer, restarted, no
result.

I've never done this before and methinks I'll probably be consulting a PC
repair place pretty soon. Sad, but I'm simply tired of dealing with this
stuff. I needed my computer running weeks ago and I'm losing money over
this.
Thanks for all the help any way, folks.

"JS" wrote:

When you installed XP you most likely did a "Clean Install".
If yes then you need to install the motherboard chipset
and other device drivers, one of which will be for your
network adaptor.

Use 'Device Manager' to look for any yellow question marks

Since you need to get above mentioned drivers,
ask your friend to download the XP drivers (and there will be
a number of them) from Dell's web site for your specific make and model.

--
JS
http://www.pagestart.com



"Damon" wrote in message
...
Alright, bought a new hard-drive (WD CAVIAR SE 160GM SATA HD 7200RPM
8MB
3.5LP 3YR), installed hardware, installed WinXP Pro, and that's all
well
and
good...

...but I can't seem to connect to the internet to proceed with
updating/bringing it up to standard. Our ISP is Comcast Broadband, and
I've
used it successfully on the same computer in the past. It's always on
and
we
reset the network several times, but no matter what when I hook the
network
cable up to my computer, and it lights up, nothing happens in Windows.
Nothing pops up telling me "new connection detected" or anything. "New
Connection Wizard" is useless; it tells me no network or even network
hardware can be detected. Which is odd, because I have used our Comcast
network flawlessly on my computer in the past (before the new HD and
OS);
nothing shows up in the Connection Settings window. Yes, everything is
plugged in where it is supposed to be.

Any ideas? I know this seems off topic at this point but now that I
have a
new HD that problem is more or less solved, and if I can get online
then I
can easily take it from here.

Thanks,

D

"JS" wrote:

Yes,

If the Dell BIOS has an option to
disable automatic reboot on error then do so.
You might get a better look at the error message.

If that doesn't work then try another hard drive.

--
JS
http://www.pagestart.com



"Damon" wrote in message
...
Alright, my friend lent me a Windows XP Pro CD (mine is Media Center
Edition
but whatever) and I ran the chkdsk /r and /p function from the F2
Repair
Console and the Recovery Console, after a few minutes of dicking
around
the
computer restarted and now it won't even load to the Windows logo,
now
I
get
the DELL logo with the little loading bar and then the monitor
reboots
and
a
message flashes quickly on the screen, something about "invalid
this"
and
"reading from" that... Then I get the DELL logo again and so on and
so
forth
into eternity.

So I went into the Windows installation tool to just do an overwrite
install
of XP Pro and it said the data on the selected drive (and the only
drive,
C:/
but apparently unidentifiable) is too damaged to do an augmented
install,
that it will have to do a full reformat, okay, so I tell it to
format
and
I
try both the "quick" option and the regular option, both times on
the
blue
screen when the yellow bar gets to the end and it says "setting up
files
for
install" afterward the computer restarts and I just get the DELL
logo
over
and over and over again like before.

So now my computer is even more screwed. Great. Any ideas or is it
time
to
invest in a custom built rig?

D

"Damon" wrote:

My friend dug out an old XP CD for me to use so at the very least I
can
reformat I guess.

D

"JS" wrote:

It's still worth a try as I found one Dell CD
that worked fine on two different models.

--
JS
http://www.pagestart.com



"Bennett Marco" wrote in message
news Damon wrote:

Well, I can't find either my XP CD or my Dell Utilities CD...
I'm
going to
have my mom send hers up from San Diego but otherwise it looks
like
I'm
screwed.

If she doesn't have the EXACT same computer you're DEFINITELY
screwed.

Okay, it took a while and some tricky searching, but it worked! I've got
internet and have spent the last few hours downloading all Windows updates,
firewalls, anti-virus, drivers, etc. to bring my rig back up to standard.

So, naturally, the only thing left not working is: Sound.

Everything else is installed in Add New Hardware but when I go to install
the "IDT High Definition Audio CODEC" I get the conclusion: "This device
cannot start (Code 10)"

And all other driver downloads don't seem to work... Any ideas?

Thanks for all the help so far.

D

"JS" wrote:

Extracting those files is one half of the process.

Now that you extracted each of the driver files
(each to it's own directory).

1) The chipset driver should be a self installing .exe file
that you run and then reboot the PC.

2) Next go back into Device Manger and for each device that
has a question mark, starting the 'Ethernet Controller' right
click and select 'Update Driver' and choose the option to
select the location of the driver, which would be the directory
where you extracted the Ethernet drive. This should get your
Internet connectivity back. Then work on installing the other drivers.

--
JS
http://www.pagestart.com



"Damon" wrote in message
...
The only thing I was able to install though Add Hardware was "Microsoft
Loopback Adapter", which is the network hardware I believe. Remaining
question marks are "Ethernet Controller, PCI Device, Modem Device, Video
Controller and Universal Serial Bus. I downloaded all the drivers marked
"urgent" from A
href="http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&ServiceTag= DDPWP81&SystemID=Dimension%205150/E510&os=WW1&osl=en&catid=&impid="this/a
page of the DELL site, that being the Intel Chipset and Network drivers
(The
rest being optional), extracted them onto my computer, restarted, no
result.

I've never done this before and methinks I'll probably be consulting a PC
repair place pretty soon. Sad, but I'm simply tired of dealing with this
stuff. I needed my computer running weeks ago and I'm losing money over
this.
Thanks for all the help any way, folks.

"JS" wrote:

When you installed XP you most likely did a "Clean Install".
If yes then you need to install the motherboard chipset
and other device drivers, one of which will be for your
network adaptor.

Use 'Device Manager' to look for any yellow question marks

Since you need to get above mentioned drivers,
ask your friend to download the XP drivers (and there will be
a number of them) from Dell's web site for your specific make and model.

--
JS
http://www.pagestart.com



"Damon" wrote in message
...
Alright, bought a new hard-drive (WD CAVIAR SE 160GM SATA HD 7200RPM
8MB
3.5LP 3YR), installed hardware, installed WinXP Pro, and that's all
well
and
good...

...but I can't seem to connect to the internet to proceed with
updating/bringing it up to standard. Our ISP is Comcast Broadband, and
I've
used it successfully on the same computer in the past. It's always on
and
we
reset the network several times, but no matter what when I hook the
network
cable up to my computer, and it lights up, nothing happens in Windows.
Nothing pops up telling me "new connection detected" or anything. "New
Connection Wizard" is useless; it tells me no network or even network
hardware can be detected. Which is odd, because I have used our Comcast
network flawlessly on my computer in the past (before the new HD and
OS);
nothing shows up in the Connection Settings window. Yes, everything is
plugged in where it is supposed to be.

Any ideas? I know this seems off topic at this point but now that I
have a
new HD that problem is more or less solved, and if I can get online
then I
can easily take it from here.

Thanks,

D

"JS" wrote:

Yes,

If the Dell BIOS has an option to
disable automatic reboot on error then do so.
You might get a better look at the error message.

If that doesn't work then try another hard drive.

--
JS
http://www.pagestart.com



"Damon" wrote in message
...
Alright, my friend lent me a Windows XP Pro CD (mine is Media Center
Edition
but whatever) and I ran the chkdsk /r and /p function from the F2
Repair
Console and the Recovery Console, after a few minutes of dicking
around
the
computer restarted and now it won't even load to the Windows logo,
now
I
get
the DELL logo with the little loading bar and then the monitor
reboots
and
a
message flashes quickly on the screen, something about "invalid
this"
and
"reading from" that... Then I get the DELL logo again and so on and
so
forth
into eternity.

So I went into the Windows installation tool to just do an overwrite
install
of XP Pro and it said the data on the selected drive (and the only
drive,
C:/
but apparently unidentifiable) is too damaged to do an augmented
install,
that it will have to do a full reformat, okay, so I tell it to
format
and
I
try both the "quick" option and the regular option, both times on
the
blue
screen when the yellow bar gets to the end and it says "setting up
files
for
install" afterward the computer restarts and I just get the DELL
logo
over
and over and over again like before.

So now my computer is even more screwed. Great. Any ideas or is it
time
to
invest in a custom built rig?

D

"Damon" wrote:

My friend dug out an old XP CD for me to use so at the very least I
can
reformat I guess.

D

"JS" wrote:

It's still worth a try as I found one Dell CD
that worked fine on two different models.

--
JS
http://www.pagestart.com



"Bennett Marco" wrote in message
news Damon wrote:

Well, I can't find either my XP CD or my Dell Utilities CD...
I'm
going to
have my mom send hers up from San Diego but otherwise it looks
like
I'm
screwed.

If she doesn't have the EXACT same computer you're DEFINITELY
screwed.

Most likely you have the wrong sound driver.

Download and run Belarc Advisor:
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html
It will identify the specific sound chip or card installed
in your PC. Then go back to Dell's web site and double
check that you downloaded the correct sound driver file.

As an alternative you sometimes can get the sound driver
direct from the sound chip/card manufacture's web site.
One of the more common makers is called "RealTek" but
there are others.

--
JS
http://www.pagestart.com



"Damon" wrote in message
...
Okay, it took a while and some tricky searching, but it worked! I've got
internet and have spent the last few hours downloading all Windows
updates,
firewalls, anti-virus, drivers, etc. to bring my rig back up to standard.

So, naturally, the only thing left not working is: Sound.

Everything else is installed in Add New Hardware but when I go to install
the "IDT High Definition Audio CODEC" I get the conclusion: "This device
cannot start (Code 10)"

And all other driver downloads don't seem to work... Any ideas?

Thanks for all the help so far.

D

"JS" wrote:

Extracting those files is one half of the process.

Now that you extracted each of the driver files
(each to it's own directory).

1) The chipset driver should be a self installing .exe file
that you run and then reboot the PC.

2) Next go back into Device Manger and for each device that
has a question mark, starting the 'Ethernet Controller' right
click and select 'Update Driver' and choose the option to
select the location of the driver, which would be the directory
where you extracted the Ethernet drive. This should get your
Internet connectivity back. Then work on installing the other drivers.

--
JS
http://www.pagestart.com



"Damon" wrote in message
...
The only thing I was able to install though Add Hardware was "Microsoft
Loopback Adapter", which is the network hardware I believe. Remaining
question marks are "Ethernet Controller, PCI Device, Modem Device,
Video
Controller and Universal Serial Bus. I downloaded all the drivers
marked
"urgent" from A
href="http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&ServiceTag= DDPWP81&SystemID=Dimension%205150/E510&os=WW1&osl=en&catid=&impid="this/a
page of the DELL site, that being the Intel Chipset and Network drivers
(The
rest being optional), extracted them onto my computer, restarted, no
result.

I've never done this before and methinks I'll probably be consulting a
PC
repair place pretty soon. Sad, but I'm simply tired of dealing with
this
stuff. I needed my computer running weeks ago and I'm losing money over
this.
Thanks for all the help any way, folks.

"JS" wrote:

When you installed XP you most likely did a "Clean Install".
If yes then you need to install the motherboard chipset
and other device drivers, one of which will be for your
network adaptor.

Use 'Device Manager' to look for any yellow question marks

Since you need to get above mentioned drivers,
ask your friend to download the XP drivers (and there will be
a number of them) from Dell's web site for your specific make and
model.

--
JS
http://www.pagestart.com



"Damon" wrote in message
...
Alright, bought a new hard-drive (WD CAVIAR SE 160GM SATA HD 7200RPM
8MB
3.5LP 3YR), installed hardware, installed WinXP Pro, and that's all
well
and
good...

...but I can't seem to connect to the internet to proceed with
updating/bringing it up to standard. Our ISP is Comcast Broadband,
and
I've
used it successfully on the same computer in the past. It's always
on
and
we
reset the network several times, but no matter what when I hook the
network
cable up to my computer, and it lights up, nothing happens in
Windows.
Nothing pops up telling me "new connection detected" or anything.
"New
Connection Wizard" is useless; it tells me no network or even
network
hardware can be detected. Which is odd, because I have used our
Comcast
network flawlessly on my computer in the past (before the new HD and
OS);
nothing shows up in the Connection Settings window. Yes, everything
is
plugged in where it is supposed to be.

Any ideas? I know this seems off topic at this point but now that I
have a
new HD that problem is more or less solved, and if I can get online
then I
can easily take it from here.

Thanks,

D

"JS" wrote:

Yes,

If the Dell BIOS has an option to
disable automatic reboot on error then do so.
You might get a better look at the error message.

If that doesn't work then try another hard drive.

--
JS
http://www.pagestart.com



"Damon" wrote in message
...
Alright, my friend lent me a Windows XP Pro CD (mine is Media
Center
Edition
but whatever) and I ran the chkdsk /r and /p function from the F2
Repair
Console and the Recovery Console, after a few minutes of dicking
around
the
computer restarted and now it won't even load to the Windows
logo,
now
I
get
the DELL logo with the little loading bar and then the monitor
reboots
and
a
message flashes quickly on the screen, something about "invalid
this"
and
"reading from" that... Then I get the DELL logo again and so on
and
so
forth
into eternity.

So I went into the Windows installation tool to just do an
overwrite
install
of XP Pro and it said the data on the selected drive (and the
only
drive,
C:/
but apparently unidentifiable) is too damaged to do an augmented
install,
that it will have to do a full reformat, okay, so I tell it to
format
and
I
try both the "quick" option and the regular option, both times on
the
blue
screen when the yellow bar gets to the end and it says "setting
up
files
for
install" afterward the computer restarts and I just get the DELL
logo
over
and over and over again like before.

So now my computer is even more screwed. Great. Any ideas or is
it
time
to
invest in a custom built rig?

D

"Damon" wrote:

My friend dug out an old XP CD for me to use so at the very
least I
can
reformat I guess.

D

"JS" wrote:

It's still worth a try as I found one Dell CD
that worked fine on two different models.

--
JS
http://www.pagestart.com



"Bennett Marco" wrote in message
news Damon wrote:

Well, I can't find either my XP CD or my Dell Utilities
CD...
I'm
going to
have my mom send hers up from San Diego but otherwise it
looks
like
I'm
screwed.

If she doesn't have the EXACT same computer you're
DEFINITELY
screwed.

Wow, not sure how I missed that driver on the Dell page.

Downloaded and extracted and I've got sound.

Thanks for the Belarc pointer, I also use Driver Detective though it's a
fickle program.

Unless anything else comes up I think that's it, thanks for all your help!
If you're ever in the Portland, OR metro area and need a free ticket to a
stage show, drop me a line!

D

"JS" wrote:

Most likely you have the wrong sound driver.

Download and run Belarc Advisor:
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html
It will identify the specific sound chip or card installed
in your PC. Then go back to Dell's web site and double
check that you downloaded the correct sound driver file.

As an alternative you sometimes can get the sound driver
direct from the sound chip/card manufacture's web site.
One of the more common makers is called "RealTek" but
there are others.

--
JS
http://www.pagestart.com



"Damon" wrote in message
...
Okay, it took a while and some tricky searching, but it worked! I've got
internet and have spent the last few hours downloading all Windows
updates,
firewalls, anti-virus, drivers, etc. to bring my rig back up to standard.

So, naturally, the only thing left not working is: Sound.

Everything else is installed in Add New Hardware but when I go to install
the "IDT High Definition Audio CODEC" I get the conclusion: "This device
cannot start (Code 10)"

And all other driver downloads don't seem to work... Any ideas?

Thanks for all the help so far.

D

"JS" wrote:

Extracting those files is one half of the process.

Now that you extracted each of the driver files
(each to it's own directory).

1) The chipset driver should be a self installing .exe file
that you run and then reboot the PC.

2) Next go back into Device Manger and for each device that
has a question mark, starting the 'Ethernet Controller' right
click and select 'Update Driver' and choose the option to
select the location of the driver, which would be the directory
where you extracted the Ethernet drive. This should get your
Internet connectivity back. Then work on installing the other drivers.

--
JS
http://www.pagestart.com



"Damon" wrote in message
...
The only thing I was able to install though Add Hardware was "Microsoft
Loopback Adapter", which is the network hardware I believe. Remaining
question marks are "Ethernet Controller, PCI Device, Modem Device,
Video
Controller and Universal Serial Bus. I downloaded all the drivers
marked
"urgent" from A
href="http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&ServiceTag= DDPWP81&SystemID=Dimension%205150/E510&os=WW1&osl=en&catid=&impid="this/a
page of the DELL site, that being the Intel Chipset and Network drivers
(The
rest being optional), extracted them onto my computer, restarted, no
result.

I've never done this before and methinks I'll probably be consulting a
PC
repair place pretty soon. Sad, but I'm simply tired of dealing with
this
stuff. I needed my computer running weeks ago and I'm losing money over
this.
Thanks for all the help any way, folks.

"JS" wrote:

When you installed XP you most likely did a "Clean Install".
If yes then you need to install the motherboard chipset
and other device drivers, one of which will be for your
network adaptor.

Use 'Device Manager' to look for any yellow question marks

Since you need to get above mentioned drivers,
ask your friend to download the XP drivers (and there will be
a number of them) from Dell's web site for your specific make and
model.

--
JS
http://www.pagestart.com



"Damon" wrote in message
...
Alright, bought a new hard-drive (WD CAVIAR SE 160GM SATA HD 7200RPM
8MB
3.5LP 3YR), installed hardware, installed WinXP Pro, and that's all
well
and
good...

...but I can't seem to connect to the internet to proceed with
updating/bringing it up to standard. Our ISP is Comcast Broadband,
and
I've
used it successfully on the same computer in the past. It's always
on
and
we
reset the network several times, but no matter what when I hook the
network
cable up to my computer, and it lights up, nothing happens in
Windows.
Nothing pops up telling me "new connection detected" or anything.
"New
Connection Wizard" is useless; it tells me no network or even
network
hardware can be detected. Which is odd, because I have used our
Comcast
network flawlessly on my computer in the past (before the new HD and
OS);
nothing shows up in the Connection Settings window. Yes, everything
is
plugged in where it is supposed to be.

Any ideas? I know this seems off topic at this point but now that I
have a
new HD that problem is more or less solved, and if I can get online
then I
can easily take it from here.

Thanks,

D

"JS" wrote:

Yes,

If the Dell BIOS has an option to
disable automatic reboot on error then do so.
You might get a better look at the error message.

If that doesn't work then try another hard drive.

--
JS
http://www.pagestart.com



"Damon" wrote in message
...
Alright, my friend lent me a Windows XP Pro CD (mine is Media
Center
Edition
but whatever) and I ran the chkdsk /r and /p function from the F2
Repair
Console and the Recovery Console, after a few minutes of dicking
around
the
computer restarted and now it won't even load to the Windows
logo,
now
I
get
the DELL logo with the little loading bar and then the monitor
reboots
and
a
message flashes quickly on the screen, something about "invalid
this"
and
"reading from" that... Then I get the DELL logo again and so on
and
so
forth
into eternity.

So I went into the Windows installation tool to just do an
overwrite
install
of XP Pro and it said the data on the selected drive (and the
only
drive,
C:/
but apparently unidentifiable) is too damaged to do an augmented
install,
that it will have to do a full reformat, okay, so I tell it to
format
and
I
try both the "quick" option and the regular option, both times on
the
blue
screen when the yellow bar gets to the end and it says "setting
up
files
for
install" afterward the computer restarts and I just get the DELL
logo
over
and over and over again like before.

So now my computer is even more screwed. Great. Any ideas or is
it
time
to
invest in a custom built rig?

D

"Damon" wrote:

My friend dug out an old XP CD for me to use so at the very
least I
can
reformat I guess.

D

"JS" wrote:

It's still worth a try as I found one Dell CD
that worked fine on two different models.

--
JS
http://www.pagestart.com



"Bennett Marco" wrote in message
news Damon wrote:

Well, I can't find either my XP CD or my Dell Utilities
CD...
I'm
going to
have my mom send hers up from San Diego but otherwise it
looks
like
I'm
screwed.

If she doesn't have the EXACT same computer you're
DEFINITELY
screwed.

My pleasure

--
JS
http://www.pagestart.com



"Damon" wrote in message
...
Wow, not sure how I missed that driver on the Dell page.

Downloaded and extracted and I've got sound.

Thanks for the Belarc pointer, I also use Driver Detective though it's a
fickle program.

Unless anything else comes up I think that's it, thanks for all your help!
If you're ever in the Portland, OR metro area and need a free ticket to a
stage show, drop me a line!

D

"JS" wrote:

Most likely you have the wrong sound driver.

Download and run Belarc Advisor:
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html
It will identify the specific sound chip or card installed
in your PC. Then go back to Dell's web site and double
check that you downloaded the correct sound driver file.

As an alternative you sometimes can get the sound driver
direct from the sound chip/card manufacture's web site.
One of the more common makers is called "RealTek" but
there are others.

--
JS
http://www.pagestart.com



"Damon" wrote in message
...
Okay, it took a while and some tricky searching, but it worked! I've
got
internet and have spent the last few hours downloading all Windows
updates,
firewalls, anti-virus, drivers, etc. to bring my rig back up to
standard.

So, naturally, the only thing left not working is: Sound.

Everything else is installed in Add New Hardware but when I go to
install
the "IDT High Definition Audio CODEC" I get the conclusion: "This
device
cannot start (Code 10)"

And all other driver downloads don't seem to work... Any ideas?

Thanks for all the help so far.

D

"JS" wrote:

Extracting those files is one half of the process.

Now that you extracted each of the driver files
(each to it's own directory).

1) The chipset driver should be a self installing .exe file
that you run and then reboot the PC.

2) Next go back into Device Manger and for each device that
has a question mark, starting the 'Ethernet Controller' right
click and select 'Update Driver' and choose the option to
select the location of the driver, which would be the directory
where you extracted the Ethernet drive. This should get your
Internet connectivity back. Then work on installing the other drivers.

--
JS
http://www.pagestart.com



"Damon" wrote in message
...
The only thing I was able to install though Add Hardware was
"Microsoft
Loopback Adapter", which is the network hardware I believe.
Remaining
question marks are "Ethernet Controller, PCI Device, Modem Device,
Video
Controller and Universal Serial Bus. I downloaded all the drivers
marked
"urgent" from A
href="http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&ServiceTag= DDPWP81&SystemID=Dimension%205150/E510&os=WW1&osl=en&catid=&impid="this/a
page of the DELL site, that being the Intel Chipset and Network
drivers
(The
rest being optional), extracted them onto my computer, restarted, no
result.

I've never done this before and methinks I'll probably be consulting
a
PC
repair place pretty soon. Sad, but I'm simply tired of dealing with
this
stuff. I needed my computer running weeks ago and I'm losing money
over
this.
Thanks for all the help any way, folks.

"JS" wrote:

When you installed XP you most likely did a "Clean Install".
If yes then you need to install the motherboard chipset
and other device drivers, one of which will be for your
network adaptor.

Use 'Device Manager' to look for any yellow question marks

Since you need to get above mentioned drivers,
ask your friend to download the XP drivers (and there will be
a number of them) from Dell's web site for your specific make and
model.

--
JS
http://www.pagestart.com



"Damon" wrote in message
...
Alright, bought a new hard-drive (WD CAVIAR SE 160GM SATA HD
7200RPM
8MB
3.5LP 3YR), installed hardware, installed WinXP Pro, and that's
all
well
and
good...

...but I can't seem to connect to the internet to proceed with
updating/bringing it up to standard. Our ISP is Comcast
Broadband,
and
I've
used it successfully on the same computer in the past. It's
always
on
and
we
reset the network several times, but no matter what when I hook
the
network
cable up to my computer, and it lights up, nothing happens in
Windows.
Nothing pops up telling me "new connection detected" or anything.
"New
Connection Wizard" is useless; it tells me no network or even
network
hardware can be detected. Which is odd, because I have used our
Comcast
network flawlessly on my computer in the past (before the new HD
and
OS);
nothing shows up in the Connection Settings window. Yes,
everything
is
plugged in where it is supposed to be.

Any ideas? I know this seems off topic at this point but now that
I
have a
new HD that problem is more or less solved, and if I can get
online
then I
can easily take it from here.

Thanks,

D

"JS" wrote:

Yes,

If the Dell BIOS has an option to
disable automatic reboot on error then do so.
You might get a better look at the error message.

If that doesn't work then try another hard drive.

--
JS
http://www.pagestart.com



"Damon" wrote in message
...
Alright, my friend lent me a Windows XP Pro CD (mine is Media
Center
Edition
but whatever) and I ran the chkdsk /r and /p function from the
F2
Repair
Console and the Recovery Console, after a few minutes of
dicking
around
the
computer restarted and now it won't even load to the Windows
logo,
now
I
get
the DELL logo with the little loading bar and then the monitor
reboots
and
a
message flashes quickly on the screen, something about
"invalid
this"
and
"reading from" that... Then I get the DELL logo again and so
on
and
so
forth
into eternity.

So I went into the Windows installation tool to just do an
overwrite
install
of XP Pro and it said the data on the selected drive (and the
only
drive,
C:/
but apparently unidentifiable) is too damaged to do an
augmented
install,
that it will have to do a full reformat, okay, so I tell it to
format
and
I
try both the "quick" option and the regular option, both times
on
the
blue
screen when the yellow bar gets to the end and it says
"setting
up
files
for
install" afterward the computer restarts and I just get the
DELL
logo
over
and over and over again like before.

So now my computer is even more screwed. Great. Any ideas or
is
it
time
to
invest in a custom built rig?

D

"Damon" wrote:

My friend dug out an old XP CD for me to use so at the very
least I
can
reformat I guess.

D

"JS" wrote:

It's still worth a try as I found one Dell CD
that worked fine on two different models.

--
JS
http://www.pagestart.com



"Bennett Marco" wrote in message
news Damon wrote:

Well, I can't find either my XP CD or my Dell Utilities
CD...
I'm
going to
have my mom send hers up from San Diego but otherwise it
looks
like
I'm
screwed.

If she doesn't have the EXACT same computer you're
DEFINITELY
screwed.

Driver Detective is cr*p .

On Sun, 9 Aug 2009 12:03:01 -0700, Damon
wrote:

Wow, not sure how I missed that driver on the Dell page.

Downloaded and extracted and I've got sound.

Thanks for the Belarc pointer, I also use Driver Detective though it's a
fickle program.

Unless anything else comes up I think that's it, thanks for all your help!
If you're ever in the Portland, OR metro area and need a free ticket to a
stage show, drop me a line!

D

"JS" wrote:

Most likely you have the wrong sound driver.

Download and run Belarc Advisor:
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html
It will identify the specific sound chip or card installed
in your PC. Then go back to Dell's web site and double
check that you downloaded the correct sound driver file.

As an alternative you sometimes can get the sound driver
direct from the sound chip/card manufacture's web site.
One of the more common makers is called "RealTek" but
there are others.

--
JS
http://www.pagestart.com



"Damon" wrote in message
...
Okay, it took a while and some tricky searching, but it worked! I've got
internet and have spent the last few hours downloading all Windows
updates,
firewalls, anti-virus, drivers, etc. to bring my rig back up to standard.

So, naturally, the only thing left not working is: Sound.

Everything else is installed in Add New Hardware but when I go to install
the "IDT High Definition Audio CODEC" I get the conclusion: "This device
cannot start (Code 10)"

And all other driver downloads don't seem to work... Any ideas?

Thanks for all the help so far.

D

"JS" wrote:

Extracting those files is one half of the process.

Now that you extracted each of the driver files
(each to it's own directory).

1) The chipset driver should be a self installing .exe file
that you run and then reboot the PC.

2) Next go back into Device Manger and for each device that
has a question mark, starting the 'Ethernet Controller' right
click and select 'Update Driver' and choose the option to
select the location of the driver, which would be the directory
where you extracted the Ethernet drive. This should get your
Internet connectivity back. Then work on installing the other drivers.

--
JS
http://www.pagestart.com



"Damon" wrote in message
...
The only thing I was able to install though Add Hardware was "Microsoft
Loopback Adapter", which is the network hardware I believe. Remaining
question marks are "Ethernet Controller, PCI Device, Modem Device,
Video
Controller and Universal Serial Bus. I downloaded all the drivers
marked
"urgent" from A
href="http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&ServiceTag= DDPWP81&SystemID=Dimension%205150/E510&os=WW1&osl=en&catid=&impid="this/a
page of the DELL site, that being the Intel Chipset and Network drivers
(The
rest being optional), extracted them onto my computer, restarted, no
result.

I've never done this before and methinks I'll probably be consulting a
PC
repair place pretty soon. Sad, but I'm simply tired of dealing with
this
stuff. I needed my computer running weeks ago and I'm losing money over
this.
Thanks for all the help any way, folks.

"JS" wrote:

When you installed XP you most likely did a "Clean Install".
If yes then you need to install the motherboard chipset
and other device drivers, one of which will be for your
network adaptor.

Use 'Device Manager' to look for any yellow question marks

Since you need to get above mentioned drivers,
ask your friend to download the XP drivers (and there will be
a number of them) from Dell's web site for your specific make and
model.

--
JS
http://www.pagestart.com



"Damon" wrote in message
...
Alright, bought a new hard-drive (WD CAVIAR SE 160GM SATA HD 7200RPM
8MB
3.5LP 3YR), installed hardware, installed WinXP Pro, and that's all
well
and
good...

...but I can't seem to connect to the internet to proceed with
updating/bringing it up to standard. Our ISP is Comcast Broadband,
and
I've
used it successfully on the same computer in the past. It's always
on
and
we
reset the network several times, but no matter what when I hook the
network
cable up to my computer, and it lights up, nothing happens in
Windows.
Nothing pops up telling me "new connection detected" or anything.
"New
Connection Wizard" is useless; it tells me no network or even
network
hardware can be detected. Which is odd, because I have used our
Comcast
network flawlessly on my computer in the past (before the new HD and
OS);
nothing shows up in the Connection Settings window. Yes, everything
is
plugged in where it is supposed to be.

Any ideas? I know this seems off topic at this point but now that I
have a
new HD that problem is more or less solved, and if I can get online
then I
can easily take it from here.

Thanks,

D

"JS" wrote:

Yes,

If the Dell BIOS has an option to
disable automatic reboot on error then do so.
You might get a better look at the error message.

If that doesn't work then try another hard drive.

--
JS
http://www.pagestart.com



"Damon" wrote in message
...
Alright, my friend lent me a Windows XP Pro CD (mine is Media
Center
Edition
but whatever) and I ran the chkdsk /r and /p function from the F2
Repair
Console and the Recovery Console, after a few minutes of dicking
around
the
computer restarted and now it won't even load to the Windows
logo,
now
I
get
the DELL logo with the little loading bar and then the monitor
reboots
and
a
message flashes quickly on the screen, something about "invalid
this"
and
"reading from" that... Then I get the DELL logo again and so on
and
so
forth
into eternity.

So I went into the Windows installation tool to just do an
overwrite
install
of XP Pro and it said the data on the selected drive (and the
only
drive,
C:/
but apparently unidentifiable) is too damaged to do an augmented
install,
that it will have to do a full reformat, okay, so I tell it to
format
and
I
try both the "quick" option and the regular option, both times on
the
blue
screen when the yellow bar gets to the end and it says "setting
up
files
for
install" afterward the computer restarts and I just get the DELL
logo
over
and over and over again like before.

So now my computer is even more screwed. Great. Any ideas or is
it
time
to
invest in a custom built rig?

D

"Damon" wrote:

My friend dug out an old XP CD for me to use so at the very
least I
can
reformat I guess.

D

"JS" wrote:

It's still worth a try as I found one Dell CD
that worked fine on two different models.

--
JS
http://www.pagestart.com



"Bennett Marco" wrote in message
news Damon wrote:

Well, I can't find either my XP CD or my Dell Utilities
CD...
I'm
going to
have my mom send hers up from San Diego but otherwise it
looks
like
I'm
screwed.

If she doesn't have the EXACT same computer you're
DEFINITELY
screwed.

I also have been experiencing what Damon mentioned below. Did not install
any new software. Did all the remedies Microsoft suggested, and it still
loops to blue screen even I tried using my image disk? Am I hosed? I have a
DELL Latitude D630.

"Damon" wrote:

Hi,

I recently moved a short distance, and in the process I suppose my PC was
left in a box in a hot garage for a few hours before being jostled into my
car and shipped about 20 miles... Long story short something must have gotten
knocked loose because I hooked it up and ran it at my new place, and when
Windows starts to load I get the blue screen and this message:

"Error:

A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage
to your computer.

UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME

If this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen, restart your
computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps:

Check to make sure any new hardware or software is properly installed. If
this is a new installation, ask your hardware or software manufacturer for
any Windows updates you might need.

If problems continue, disable or remove any newly installed hardware or
software. Disable Bios memory options such as caching or shadowing. If you
need to use Safe Mode to remove or disable components, restart your computer,
press F8 to select Advanced startup options, and then select Safe Mode.

Technical Information:

***STOP: 0X000000ED (0X8A944900, 0X0000006, 0X00000000, 0X00000000)"

I'm not sure what any of that means but I do recall a similar issue
occurring several years ago, this PC has always been a bit temperamental on
startup. I ran F2 Setup and flicked a few settings on and off but nothing
helped. I also cracked the thing open and did a visual inspection but there
was nothing obvious...

Any ideas?

My specs:

Dell Dimension E510
Pentium 4 3.0 ghz
2.5 gb sdram
Windows XP (media center edition) SP3
Geforce 8800 GT
40gig hard-drive
etc.

I know my way around a computer alright so I am willing to post new
information as needed.

Thanks!

D

Suggest you start a new post as this one is 2 months old.

--
JS
http://www.pagestart.com



"HoneyCANdew" wrote in message
...
I also have been experiencing what Damon mentioned below. Did not install
any new software. Did all the remedies Microsoft suggested, and it still
loops to blue screen even I tried using my image disk? Am I hosed? I
have a
DELL Latitude D630.

"Damon" wrote:

Hi,

I recently moved a short distance, and in the process I suppose my PC was
left in a box in a hot garage for a few hours before being jostled into
my
car and shipped about 20 miles... Long story short something must have
gotten
knocked loose because I hooked it up and ran it at my new place, and when
Windows starts to load I get the blue screen and this message:

"Error:

A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent
damage
to your computer.

UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME

If this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen, restart
your
computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps:

Check to make sure any new hardware or software is properly installed. If
this is a new installation, ask your hardware or software manufacturer
for
any Windows updates you might need.

If problems continue, disable or remove any newly installed hardware or
software. Disable Bios memory options such as caching or shadowing. If
you
need to use Safe Mode to remove or disable components, restart your
computer,
press F8 to select Advanced startup options, and then select Safe Mode.

Technical Information:

***STOP: 0X000000ED (0X8A944900, 0X0000006, 0X00000000, 0X00000000)"

I'm not sure what any of that means but I do recall a similar issue
occurring several years ago, this PC has always been a bit temperamental
on
startup. I ran F2 Setup and flicked a few settings on and off but nothing
helped. I also cracked the thing open and did a visual inspection but
there
was nothing obvious...

Any ideas?

My specs:

Dell Dimension E510
Pentium 4 3.0 ghz
2.5 gb sdram
Windows XP (media center edition) SP3
Geforce 8800 GT
40gig hard-drive
etc.

I know my way around a computer alright so I am willing to post new
information as needed.

Thanks!

D