Nope. It's either a faulty wireless card, tv card or something else. So all three things have been ripped out as they're not used and bobs your uncle.

If removing three cards caused solved the problem, then it could be a failing power supply or motherboard. As the failing component gets worse, the problem may come back.

How do you rip a "something else" out?

:o)

You pay someone 34.50 to do it.

I'm surprised your uncle charges you...

My daughter's laptop is always going wrong.

Hmmm? 34.50, you say? Hmmm?

AVG have issued a program update today so perhaps they've put right some of the bugs

MultiMedia Controller

Got and old Medion PC, trying to find the Multimedia Controller Drivers, but every time I tell it to search the internet it can't find it, how do I find the right one and install it. Can this stop sound playing or not

R69, you need to work out what kind of a soundcard you have and whether it is a dedicated one or on-board. You'll probably have to search for the driver online, download it and install it.

I'm sure there are better experts here to help!

klal, thanks ;-)

I know its an onboard sound, and I've installed the Realtek AC97 driver, that did git rid of that error message says its working, but no sound, so thought that might be because in the other devices am still getting the yellow sign for multimedia controller

RG

A good way to find the driver is to enter the partnumber of your soundcard or motherboard if it is integral into Bing and follow the links. Try to go to the manufacturers site if you can. Installing dodgy drivers is a good way to get viruses.

To get the part numbers, try:-

A physical inspection.
Sometimes the come up at startup or in the BIOS setup info.
Device manager.
Belarc Advisor.

Optimist, thanks ;-)

looks like the motherboard is a Micro Star MS 6701, but can't find the drivers for it

R69, no idea if this is helpful but have a look anyway.

http://download.cnet.com/Realtek-AC-97-Driver-Windows-98-Me-2000-XP-2003/3000-2120_4-10238712.html

klal, thanks ;-)

Already had them installed but still now sound, but finally found out the onboard speaker not working for some reason, was able to find spare speakers and plug them in and the sound works fine now ;-)

Got myself a lovely little Dell Optiplex GX 620 on ebay, only thing is that it's got a dodgy copy of XP Pro on it, and has an XP home COA on the case. I also have another unused Home COA, as well as an XP home oem disc.

I want to install XP Home on it, so how do I go about this? I believe I've got to reformat the HD (it looks as if it's an 80Gb SATA), then do a new install.

Sounds easy. What's the catch?

I did find this site that promises to find all the drivers required easily once the OS is installed:

Dell driver downloads

edit - all it's going to do is sit there and run MetaTrader in the background. It did come with a copy of Office 2007 installed, but my guess is that's dodgy as well! How do I find the registration no for that in case it is legit (fat chance), as I have an Office 2007 disc as well which could be used for an install on the reformatted drive.

What exactly do you mean by it being a dodgy copy of XP Pro, Seymour? Is there a splash screen which says that it's not been activated or something else?

No, it says (after downloading the updates last night) "You may be a victim of software counterfeiting" or something like that, which means to me that (as I suspected) the vendor has put a copy of Pro on because that's all he had. I can be bothered with going round the houses to get a clean COA key, when I've got prefectly good keys for XP Home.

That suggests your copy of XP Pro is probably genuine, Seymour, but that it's already in use on another machine (or umpteen other machines) somewhere. The Windows Genuine Advantage concept matches each copy of XP to a single machine via the machine's hardware (where have you seen that before?). It may even be that an organisation with a VLK has had their security compromised by an ex-employee.

There are ways around it if you are interested and can't be bothered to do a fresh install with a clean copy of XP Home, albeit not for a public forum. You know where I am.

Sorry, been out shopping for a car. You're probably on the money there Hils. I'll be in touch :-)

No problem, SC. I wouldn't want you to think that I was into hacking and cracking, btw, but I do like to know what tricks the scavengers get up to so as to ensure that our own goodies are as secure as possible.

:o)