Quite a bit of problems.. please help!

[atona]

Alright, let me explain my situation. I found an old 40g ATA hard drive to use after my other hard drive recently crashed.

I deleted the old partition of Windows XP on it, and reinstalled a fresh Windows XP Professional 2002 on it (it was the only XP disk of mine I could find.

After the install, the OS works fine, but I have no sound, instead of reading my ethernet port it is reading a connected 1394 connection (wtf? even without the cable plugged in, it's reading it as active), not reading my graphics card, monitor, and is randomly saying I have 5 drives (I assume it is reading my various media input drives as actual drives).

Can anyone help me get my computer up and running again? Internet functioning, reading everything properly, etc.. or have any clue what exactly my problems are?

My computer was bought 2 years ago, here are the specs:

Gateway 5200S
3.0ghz p4 processor
1.5g RAM
Radeon X600 PCI-E graphics card

Please help! All help is appreciated!

[plthayer]

You are just missing the drivers for your system. This post should be in the Windows XP area of the forums too just so you know for future questions you may have.

You need to go to gateway's website and look up your specific model to get the drivers you need for your system. Once you have these and install them it will all work fine. The 1394 adapter is your firewire connection on the computer, it's recognized by windows as a network connection. The Local Area connection for your network is probably not showing up because you're missing the drivers for the network card.

If you have a gateway driver recovery cd you can just put it in and run throught the install wizard and it will fix it for you in most cases.

As far as your graphics card, go to www.ati.com and get the drivers for your model from there and install them.

If you can't find the drivers please post the model number of your system and i'll try to look them up for you.