[cteddym]

Hi experts

I recently reinstalled windows xp. Under devise manager I have the yellow? Flag on the "multimedia audio controller" under "other devises." I have tried to reinstall the driver by clicking on the yellow item, but that has not worked.

I have gone to dell to download drivers (maestro 3i), with no apparent success. I have downloaded and run aida32 but, frankly, do not know what the results mean.

This seems to be a common problem after reinstall.

Does anyone have a solution for the computer lay person?

Thanks

Teddy

[Press2Esc]

Is this the audio/sound acrd that came installed in the PC? What kind of PC (e/g/. Dell, hp, toshiba, etc) do you have? P2E

[cteddym]

Thank you all for your attention and responses; it seems I will never understand computers.

My PC is a dell 4550. I went back to the dell site and retraced my steps to find drivers for this machine, clicked a few times and this time it worked. So THAT problem is solved, whew.

I have another, more toothy problem tho:

I have a partitioned hard drive, into 3 parts 40/20/20 gigs each, total 80. I used partition magic to partition the drive. When I reinstalled windows xp I directed it to format "c" which is my 40gig portion.

After the install, my PC only shows a 40 gig c drive; the other 2 partitions are "missing." I can understand if I lost data on those drives, which is bad enough, but I hurts worse to lose the storage.

Has anyone ever heard of this?

Thanks in advance

Teddy

[StuMegu]

You might just have to assign drive letters to these partitions.

Right click "my computer" & choose "manage"
Go to "disk management"

You should get a graphical representation of your hard disk and any partitions on it. If any don't have a letter - right click them and assign drive letter.

Good luck!