After a motherboard/processor failure, I have replaced the Intel Board Pentium 4 3GHZ dead 'un with a Micro-ATX GeForce 7050M-M motherboard with onboard graphics and enhanced onboard sound, as the computer does not have to do anything stretching. This has an AMD Dual Core 6000 processor attached (it was a motherboard BUNDLE).

Twin SATA HDD's are still installed as per before, as are 2 IDE drives, a DVD Rom and a DVD RW, and a Floppy. These all work.

This is in XP Pro running in Safe Mode (as currently it won't boot though normally).

My problem seems to centre on Device Driver which reports a PCI device being unable to work DUE to no PCI driver loaded in "Other Devices", but gives no direct indication of WHAT device. Cannot see any other error messaging.

There are two PCI slots and one PCI Express slot, but with onboard, nothing in any of them.

I have however discovered that there is only sound from the internal speaker, beeps, etc, and sound files loaded to Windows Media Player by double clicking them report a problem with or a missing sound device.

Is the onboard sound using PCI I wonder..................info with the motherboard is not clear and being in Safe Mode does not help.

I have allowed Windows to search for PCI drivers on Motherboard CD, XPPro CD, and Internet (Safe Mode with Networking), to no result.

Oh, and don't know if connected or not, but while it boots into Safe Mode and runs OK, it takes an AGE to shutdown................

Hope I have given enough info, berate me if not....... .........any ideas please?

That board uses Realtek HD audio.
A bad install of that will create an unknown PCI device.

Look in Device Manager>System devices for either the HD Audio Controller or the MS UAA Bus driver.
Are either there?

Also, are you updated to SP3?

Hi,

Thanks for post.................Delay as been away................

HD Audio Controller not found in lists. MS UAA Bus Driver for HD is listed and reports working OK

SP3 installed (was doing it before and after)

In Sound PROPERTIES, the Realtek device appears, but system won't allow status report in Safe Mode.

With the old MB this system had a PCI sound card, Creative Audigy. I have tried to ensure this was uninstalled and cannot see any remains from it.

Re-installed the sound anyway.

Along the way the PCI yellow question marks are now gone, yet still no sound other than internal speaker beeps. XP will NOT boot into normal mode, there is a flicker of a blue screen during latter stages of boot, but I have not been able to slow it enough to read it before it reboots to the Safe Mode choice screen. Is there a way to do this.

In Safe, if the system is left for any TIME it seems to slow itself down till it runs at a crawl or effectively stops.

Only system idle process is using processor resource.



On the F8 boot screen, there is an option to disable automatic restarting on BSOD, select that and you should be able to read the error on the BSOD.Did you install the MBoard drivers when you swapped the board out ? ?
Some components rely on the proper chipset drivers being installed to function properly...OK, the error message is one that seems not to appear in most lists, Ox07E.

I have loaded all the motherboard drivers and the sound drivers, etc. (more than once, in case)

I'm now wondering if there's a hangover of settings/active software from the old motherboard/sound card/graphics card still there affecting things, though can't find any.

Think I'm going to buy a new SATA drive and install drivers and XP to that from scratch.