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    Missing Drivers After Os Install

    I just had to reinstall my OS....windows XP Home on a dell dimension 8300. All went fine but now the device manager shows yellow marks on three items...seems drivers are missing. I have a dell disc with drivers, but the system can't seem to find the ones it needs on the disc.

    Multimedia Audio Controller
    Sm bus controller
    Video Controller (VGA compatable

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    Intel 82801EB ICH5-AC'97 AUDIO CONTROLLER (A-2/A-3)
    VIDEO ADAPTER NVIDIA GEFORCE FX 5200
    Motherboard
    motherboard id <DMI>
    motherboard name dell dimension 8300

    I don't know where the information pertaining to the bus controller? is?

    my monitor seems to be working ok, but I have no sound. So far I haven't seen other problems....just that these drivers are evidently missing. My networking driver was also missing, but I managed to find and download it on my other computer, so at least I am back online now.
    can someone please head me in the right direction to get my sound going? I will post more information if you need it.
    thanks
    Katy
    Last edited by katy24; July 16th, 2008 at 10:07 PM.

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    Pleased to say I solved my own problem.....I drug out the discs again and finally found the drivers and understood how to get them installed! more detailed instructions would have helped!......anyway, I am up and going....no more yellow exclamation point.....sound is fine......gonna write all this down for future reference LOL
    Katy

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    Best place to look is http://support.dell.com/ and go to drivers and downloads and from there you can select your computer model or enter your service tag and it will populate your drivers for you. The SM Bus driver is part of the chipset. Here are the links to the latest driver downloads for your system.

    Integrated audio driver - http://support.dell.com/support/topi...pup&file=70114

    Intel Chipset Driver (I would think this would take care of the SM Bus Driver) http://support.dell.com/support/topi...pup&file=70069

    NVidia GeForce 5200:
    Dell Driver - http://support.dell.com/support/topi...pup&file=98537
    NVidia Driver (I recommend using this one) - http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_175.19_whql.html
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    Quote Originally Posted by katy24
    Pleased to say I solved my own problem.....I drug out the discs again and finally found the drivers and understood how to get them installed! more detailed instructions would have helped!......anyway, I am up and going....no more yellow exclamation point.....sound is fine......gonna write all this down for future reference LOL
    Katy

    Glad you got it working. I work on dells all the time since that is what we use at the school I work at and their driver discs just throw everything at you and it can be confusing at times.

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