Computer is not detecting alot of hardware such as the video card. Overall system is just not functioning right. I wanted to try to install new bios to see if that would resolve the issue but am unable to find them anywhere on the net. The motherboard is a FIC K7MNF-64. I have checked the FIC website and couldn't find anything at all. Another thing is this computer doesn't have a floppy drive. Don't really personally know anything about DMI but think that might be the issue. I did notice on boot that it was verifying DMI. Any help/assistance would be appreciated. Thanks in advance of course.Need...more...info...gasp

Operating system / antivirus & antispyware protection / service packs installed / when did it start happening / did it ever work right / installed any new software?

Alan <>< Reformated LAST night with a fresh install of Windows XP. Only thing that I have installed at this point is a drivers package. Computer wasn't detecting/installing ethernet card. It started about a week ago when I tried to install Service Pack 3, WELL first NOTICED. The installation wouldn't ever finish. Would just error out over halfway. Same with Windows MEDIA Player update. Then a couple days ago the computer was running slow and Firefox was freezing while trying to load up Yahoo as home page, would have to stop the browser before it started to load Yahoo then go to the site which I wanted to in order to avoid this. So I figured I would reformat to start out clean and fresh. Which only exposed these other issues with hardware not being recogized or installed properly.Where are the chipset drivers you installed from ? ?I haven't installed any new chipset drivers yet since I am unable to find any. The drivers package that I installed after the reformat last night was from the eMachines website if you are asking about those. It was just a package of drivers for ethernet card, sound card, etc. The problem was occuring before that installation. Also the drivers for my video card will not install since it isn't being detected at all. However I do have the monitor connected to the video card and am using the same computer on these forums.Many external driver components are reliant on having the MBoard chipset drivers installed correctly...that's where i'd start troubleshooting...