Issues after reformatting my pc

steve_

Hey guys i recently done a wipe on my pc as its was slowing to a crawl and needed a spring cleaning. Due to my impatient nature i went ahead and reformatted only to notice i couldnt find the cd's that came with the computer anywhere, for drivers ect. I was hoping you guys could suggest programs or files ill need to get to make the pc run properly. It just seems to be having trouble installing programs and running .exe files. Cheers

EL_Loco

is it a branded PC, for example, a dell?

steve_

sorry no i got the parts online and my uncle put it together for me

EL_Loco

could you use your list of parts as a reference for what drivers you needed to get? chipset, audio, video etc.

Hopefully the email wasn't deleted with the order confirmation/invoice.

Princess Zelda

You could try Drivermax I think it only allows 2 driver downloads a day if you are using the Freeware version though, but it might give you a list of the drivers you need so you can get them elsewhere.

Heinrich

steve_ wrote: »

Hey guys i recently done a wipe on my pc as its was slowing to a crawl and needed a spring cleaning. Due to my impatient nature i went ahead and reformatted only to notice i couldnt find the cd's that came with the computer anywhere, for drivers ect. I was hoping you guys could suggest programs or files ill need to get to make the pc run properly. It just seems to be having trouble installing programs and running .exe files. Cheers

You can get most of the drivers off the web!

Right click on the My Computer icon, then Manage, then Device Manager. You will see a question mark against any devices without drivers. Double click on the icon and select Driver. Then click on Update...

steve_

In the device manager theres nothing that needs updating. I got my gpu and display drivers inplace its just im not sure if im missing some essential programs. Why certain exe's wont load iv no idea.

Bob_Harris

Not being able to execute exes will have nothing to do with drivers.

What operating system do you have running?

marco_polo

steve_ wrote: »

In the device manager theres nothing that needs updating. I got my gpu and display drivers inplace its just im not sure if im missing some essential programs. Why certain exe's wont load iv no idea.

Could be missing the .net runtime.

Open IE and past the following into the address bar.

javascript:alert(navigator.userAgent)

Check to see if there are entries for .NET CLR 2.0;.NET CLR 3.0; etc in the output.

Effluo

Bob_Harris wrote: »

Not being able to execute exes will have nothing to do with drivers.

IMO It sounds like a bad install of windows. stick the windows cd in again and try running the repair function from it.

If that doesn't work then i'd go ahead and do another fresh reinstall!

If you have the same problem again, then it most likely the cd that you're using is broken.

steve_

marco_polo wrote: »

Could be missing the .net runtime.

Open IE and past the following into the address bar.

javascript:alert(navigator.userAgent)

Check to see if there are entries for .NET CLR 2.0;.NET CLR 3.0; etc in the output.

no neither of these pop up in the dialog box........

marco_polo

steve_ wrote: »

no neither of these pop up in the dialog box........

Could try installing this. The fact that it is missing is a bit worrying though. Should come out of the box with windows. So it could well be a bad install

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=10CC340B-F857-4A14-83F5-25634C3BF043&displaylang=en

steve_

ok thank you ill install it now

i get a setup error when i try installing it......

sorry its working now i have some programs running so i turned them off and tried again