New computer...

[christine186]

...and now I want to take it back. The sound's not in and everything PCI has no drivers. The 20 inch screen is nice but now I have to put in all kinds of stuff. Wait till I try the burner, then I'll really have alot of questions. Oh yea. it's a HP Pavilion pent 3, 256 ram and a 60 Gig HD. I put Win 98 SE in instead of XP.... I might take it back and get something else..I don't know....

[EvilAngel]

You have an internet connection correct? If so I'm sure there's a buttload off computer savy people here that would be more than happy to help you fix your problems..

[christine186]

I already asked in hardware and have tried to find downloads at HP. That site sucks!!! Any ideas E A?

[ColdFusion]

Originally posted by christine186
...and now I want to take it back. The sound's not in and everything PCI has no drivers. The 20 inch screen is nice but now I have to put in all kinds of stuff. Wait till I try the burner, then I'll really have alot of questions. Oh yea. it's a HP Pavilion pent 3, 256 ram and a 60 Gig HD. I put Win 98 SE in instead of XP.... I might take it back and get something else..I don't know....

id suggest doing XP ... if ur missing drivers, XP will have them (lol should). And depending on how much you paid, im sure you can get a better comp then a pent 3... were at 2GHZ+ now ? Heh ur comp will be outdated soon .. just a suggestion.

[cy]

Originally posted by ColdFusion
id suggest doing XP ... if ur missing drivers, XP will have them (lol should). And depending on how much you paid, im sure you can get a better comp then a pent 3... were at 2GHZ+ now ? Heh ur comp will be outdated soon .. just a suggestion

yep yep
if you have some spare cash, go for something better so it won't outdate so soon. The feel of owning an outdated rig is no good

[christine186]

This is gold to me. When I came to this site it was with an IBM Pent 1 3.2 Gigs and it had a bad Hard disk Controller. I can take this back and get a 40Gig with 2 Megs for the same price and I just may do that because I don't want something that I can't use properly because of some HP name that doesn't have any support or downloads. I think I hate it already.

[EvilAngel]

What is the exact model of your PC?

[EvilAngel]

have you tried here ?

http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/eng/so ... rivers.htm

[christine186]

HP Pavilion 7855 and I feel like I'm double posting because I already asked in Hardware so please, nobody get offended by me and my posts.

[ace]

Originally posted by christine186
HP Pavilion 7855 and I feel like I'm double posting because I already asked in Hardware so please, nobody get offended by me and my posts.

I have the HP7850, it came with win me but I put XP pro on it and have had no problems at all. Its also a P3 and for now it does everything that I need it to do.

[christine186]

What's the PCI card called and what do you have for sound???? Why can't I get this stuff in? How do I tell the comp to install it?

[christine186]

I have SOUND!!!!
Reinstalled Windows and now I have sound!!!

[christine186]

What is a PCI communication device?

[Forgetful]

It's usually a modem, if you can't see pci card maybe it's on board or in an amr slot.

[christine186]

If it's a modem, then I don't need it...right? Should I just remove it from device manager?

[nightowl]

no just disable it....

[christine186]

I think it's diabled now because I can't find the driver for it. Should I just leave it alone and forget about the yellow stuff in device manager?