I wish to reFormat and I have a disc called SystemBoard pc133. Under V7.80B There is an Autoinstallation of the drivers. When I use disc they do not auto install and I receive constant questions.

Why don't they auto install ?

Help welcome.

Vernon Vale

Re: W98se Drivers.

You need to make your CD drive Auto Install, check your BIOS seetings - it can be done there. Alternatively, make your CD drive the 1st drive at bootup (also via BIOS), which will read your CD on bootup.

But if you want to reformat - why are you not using the System Disk you made during the instal process - that's what it's for, amongst other things. If you have it, put it in the A: drive, restart your computer, and it will give you the A: prompt. Type "Fdisk" (no quotes) and it will show you the status of your drive(s).

Suggest you do some reading before you do all this - it can be tricky. But it's the best way to reformat (if that's what you're trying to do), unless, that is, you have a 3rd party disk partitioner, which will allow reformatting as part of the program.

Barrie Smart

Re: W98se Drivers.

Hi Vernon,

The answer to your question may lie here. Have you got Auto Insert on or off?

If it's turned off do these steps:

1. Right click My Computer
2. Scroll down to Properties Open Properties
3. Click on Device Manager
4. Click on cd rom
5. Right click on the on the cd rom
6. Click on Properties
7. Then Click the settings tab
8. Make sure the Auto Insert is turn on
9. Shut all the Windows down. It will then ask you to reboot. Say OK.
10. Also If you have a burner as well, enable DMA.

Re: W98se Drivers.

From your description, the CD sounds like those distributed with PC Chips motherboards circa 2000 to 2001. The AutoInstallation feature relates to install Windows drivers.

If you format your hard disk, run the standard Windows 98 install from CD (using either a bootable CD or a bootable floppy disk with CD drivers in Config.sys and Autoexec.bat) you can then insert the System Board CD and, if it autoruns, the install dialogue box will come up.

From there the Setup.exe will detect your version of Windows and what components the Windows installation has got right (that is the Auto part of AutoInstall) and configure itself to install the rest. This may take several re-boots.

Because Windows may not have installed drivers for all devices after the second re-boot during Windows install you will be advised of new hardware found for which Windows does not have a driver. Just Cancell these. Likewise after the AutoInstall process, it will bring up a dedicated dialogue to install each device.

Of course, it could be the CD you have is not for your motherboard. If you look at the contents of the CD using Windows Explorer you will find a number of text files which, in varying degrees, will list the motherboard models it caters for.

If you do not know which motherboard you have, look carefully at the markings on the motherboard, the model is usually screenprinted somewhere. If you have a PC Chips motherboard the model will start with an M, probably M7.

PLz help

I have a System Board cd PC133 v7.80b, it has gone bad. i recently installed windows200 in my pz and need that cd for the drivers but it wont work. is there a place where i can download the drivers from.? or is there any other way?

plz help...