*sigh* Yep, more problems from me.
My computer is working again thanks to the helpful people here, but I am now having driver problems. Mainly two large problems and if I could solve them I think I will be out of the woods.
First, here is the current problem that followed the uninstall. I was left with windows "finding new hardware". It asked for the drivers for many things and thankfully I had most of the files stored in an Alienware folder. After getting most of it squared away I checked my device manager and see one last problem:
An exclamation point is now beside "Microsoft System Management BIOS Driver", and I can't figure out how to get that specific driver.
Secondly, of course, I tried to reinstall the most recent driver updates. I installed these only yesterday but I don't know if they need to be reinstalled following the "finding new hardware" frenzy. The main problem here is that when I go to install new drivers for anything device my system seems to just sit and wait about 30 minutes before the driver is installed. This is with no programs running in the background at all and this has been occuring, oddly, since before uninstalling SP2 as I somewhat mentioned. My only indication as to what might be happening came along when I tried to install my C-Media Audio drivers that Alienware supplied me with stating that they were the latest drivers. I recieved a message similar to "Waiting until the drivers/device is no longer in use". I think it is hanging while waiting for the device or drivers to stop working, apparently. I have never experienced anything like this before in my time using Windows XP, since its release, and I don't have the slightest Idea what may cause it. I hope there is a way to fix it, though. Any ideas?
Thanks for the help so far everyone.
Praey
My computer is working again thanks to the helpful people here, but I am now having driver problems. Mainly two large problems and if I could solve them I think I will be out of the woods.
First, here is the current problem that followed the uninstall. I was left with windows "finding new hardware". It asked for the drivers for many things and thankfully I had most of the files stored in an Alienware folder. After getting most of it squared away I checked my device manager and see one last problem:
An exclamation point is now beside "Microsoft System Management BIOS Driver", and I can't figure out how to get that specific driver.
Secondly, of course, I tried to reinstall the most recent driver updates. I installed these only yesterday but I don't know if they need to be reinstalled following the "finding new hardware" frenzy. The main problem here is that when I go to install new drivers for anything device my system seems to just sit and wait about 30 minutes before the driver is installed. This is with no programs running in the background at all and this has been occuring, oddly, since before uninstalling SP2 as I somewhat mentioned. My only indication as to what might be happening came along when I tried to install my C-Media Audio drivers that Alienware supplied me with stating that they were the latest drivers. I recieved a message similar to "Waiting until the drivers/device is no longer in use". I think it is hanging while waiting for the device or drivers to stop working, apparently. I have never experienced anything like this before in my time using Windows XP, since its release, and I don't have the slightest Idea what may cause it. I hope there is a way to fix it, though. Any ideas?
Thanks for the help so far everyone.
Praey
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