Where are the drivers located in XP?
Nico
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Hello everyone,
I have a Packard Bell iStart 7000 running Windows XP Home. This PC wouldn’t turn on, the XP logo appeared with the little loading bar, I waited 2 minutes, it restarted and kept doing that endlessly! So I booted from a live CD of Ubuntu, copied the internal hard drive to an external one, ran an antivirus scan on the external hard drive and formatted the PC with a freshly burned XP Home SP3. Of course, no sound and I found myself in 800x600 resolution... It would have been too easy if I didn’t have to install drivers :p a little visit to ma-config.com found the driver for the graphics card but nothing for the sound! So I went to the Packard Bell website, in the "Support/Download Center" section but my PC isn't in the list! No model from the iStart range :/ The only thing I could retrieve is a link to an FTP server (ftp://ftp.download.packardbell.com/) which indeed contains drivers for the iStart range. But there are drivers for nVidia as well as VIA or ATI so I don’t know which ones correspond to my model. I installed all the sound-related drivers (Realtek, AC97, etc.) but again the machine won't turn on :p
Since I have a backup of the internal hard drive, I was wondering if it would be possible to retrieve the drivers that were installed before. If so, where can I find them? How to reinstall them properly?
Thank you in advance!
Nico
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I have a Packard Bell iStart 7000 running Windows XP Home. This PC wouldn’t turn on, the XP logo appeared with the little loading bar, I waited 2 minutes, it restarted and kept doing that endlessly! So I booted from a live CD of Ubuntu, copied the internal hard drive to an external one, ran an antivirus scan on the external hard drive and formatted the PC with a freshly burned XP Home SP3. Of course, no sound and I found myself in 800x600 resolution... It would have been too easy if I didn’t have to install drivers :p a little visit to ma-config.com found the driver for the graphics card but nothing for the sound! So I went to the Packard Bell website, in the "Support/Download Center" section but my PC isn't in the list! No model from the iStart range :/ The only thing I could retrieve is a link to an FTP server (ftp://ftp.download.packardbell.com/) which indeed contains drivers for the iStart range. But there are drivers for nVidia as well as VIA or ATI so I don’t know which ones correspond to my model. I installed all the sound-related drivers (Realtek, AC97, etc.) but again the machine won't turn on :p
Since I have a backup of the internal hard drive, I was wondering if it would be possible to retrieve the drivers that were installed before. If so, where can I find them? How to reinstall them properly?
Thank you in advance!
Nico
Configuration: Mac OS X / Safari 534.48.3
3 answers
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Hello...
In windows/system32/drivers
or driversstore....
Regards,
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Hello
it would have been easier to install from the Data_Recovery partition intended for reinstallation instead of deleting it by formatting
or from the master CDs
but well, that’s missed
however, PB thought of these particular customers:
ftp://ftp.download.packardbell.com/DESKTOP/iStart%20(2006-2007)/
the link you found
download all the drivers into a directory called "Drivers" and when the PC asks for a driver, point it to this directory
if your machine has random failures immediately after reinstallation, the hard drive may have a boot virus or a hardware failure may occur after warming up-
Hi Redbart,
There was no restoration partition and obviously no way to fall back on the CDs :/
Downloading all the drivers is what I did. But they are .exe files so pointing Windows to the folder is useless, it needs .inf files for it to recognize that they are indeed drivers. That's why I "manually" installed the sound-related drivers. And I think I created a driver conflict that caused it not to start anymore.
To catch such a virus, you'd almost have to do it on purpose :p And I don't think it's hardware! But it's true that it's possible and I'll consider that if it happens again without explanation.
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7zip allows you to extract the contents of an exe.
