ga-73pvm-s2h help with drivers

[jhfries]

just reloaded windows xp sp2. now  the usb ports and the ethernet ports do not work. i tried using the disk that came with the motherboard but somehow something did not go right. i have yellow question marks next to the ethernet controller and the sm bus controller in the device manager. so i do not have internet on that computer, but the dsl modem still works so here i am on this laptop. how do i get this resolved?

john

[Dark Mantis]

Yopu need to go onto the Gigabyte website for yopur board and download the latest drivers for XP SP2 and the  update them on your other machine and hopefully all wil be well with the world again

[jhfries]

the problem remains that i do not know how to download onto the burner on this mac laptop i have to get it to the pc.

john

[jhfries]

so i ended up reloading windows xp again. everything is fine except i still have no usb ports working. and i guess that i forgot to mention that i updated the bios from f1 to f8 before when i still had everything working. could it be the bios? and what can i do to get the usb ports working?

john

[Dark Mantis]

If you had said that you were using a MAC I wouldn't have talked to you
We always need as much information as possible when trying to help because even small things can have an impact on the problem. Your BIOS update could quite possibly have a bearing on your problem with the USB ports lack of function. I haven't actually noticed anybody else complaining of this but it seems possible. Did you do a straight jump from BIOS F1 to F8? It is recommended that you do it in smaller updates at a time, eg F1 to F4 and then to F8. Personally I don't see why the need for this because they are not supposed to be incremental but stand alone code. I would definitely check your BIOS settings and see if everything to do with the uSB ports looks ok.