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Re: USB on Motherboard
My sister's boyfriend is trying to be the "computer repair man" around town and he put this board into a computer of mine because it wasn't working and I asked him to look at it. He lost interest in it and by the time I got it back, everything was loose inside, and it still had the nice graphics card I'd put into it, but he'd replaced the existing motherboard with this one (the existing one was loose inside of there as well. I've been learning more about taking computers apart since then and I'm taking it upon myself to reassemble it and get it working. It boots up into windows xp just fine, except I get a "new hardware found" message every time that I don't know what is for. I just cancel it every time. I installed Warcraft 3 onto and set the graphics to max settings and it ran without a hitch, except the sound wouldn't initialize (I recently installed the latest drivers). There's a driver for the USB on the support website, but it only goes up to windows 98 and tells me I should use live update if I have xp, except this board doesn't have an internet card, and I don't have one laying around to plug into it so I've been burning stuff onto cds with my main computer if I want to put anything onto it (drivers, maintenance software, Everest, etc.), but I'm not sure if I should just go ahead and install the USB drivers from the support site. ?? When I plug a device into the back port they get power but I can't interface with them or vice versa. The 10-pins on the board don't appear to have a blank spot, so it looks like I'd break one of the pins if I tried to ram it in there. I don't know much at all about BIOS's so I haven't tried anything with it. I DLed the BIOS from the support site, but am not sure what to do with it, or how to update my BIOS.
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