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I hope someone can help,

I have recently bought a second hand machine running XP Pro and trying to install new hardware
a) modem
b) 3d voodoo card

I have the drivers and these are new hardware but installing a message comes up saying there is a data valid error (code 28 ) It reconises that there is a Voodoo card and modem

Can any one help I have tried searching Forums and boards people have this problem and they claim changing the permissions in regedit for the VGA to allow full access solves the problem but not for me.

Regards
Hans Ram

This item was edited on Tuesday, 10th February 2004, 14:21

I had a similar problem recently with Win2K, with it not seeing my DVD ROM & Writer, luckily data was stored on another partion & copied the outlook settings across as well & I make images of system & data partitions to another drive on a reg basis.

I wiped it & started afresh, then restored the Outlook file.

"Great chunks of my past detaching themselves like melting icebergs"


Bigger on the inside

Thanks for that but I am unable to format the harddrive as I do not have the XP Pro disks they were not provided with the machine.

Hmmm interesting point, does it have a MS XP licence number sticker attached to it anywhere?

"Great chunks of my past detaching themselves like melting icebergs"


Bigger on the inside

Update to question

I found out the drivers i had were not XP so after extensive searching on the net found xp driver for the Modem, but had a lot of trubvle withthe voodoo card xp driver found a beta version which installed ok.

But still having problwms with the mdem just don`t want to logon to the internet talked to Freeserve my ISP who said after checks claim its a problem with the modem talked to the moem people "Trust" who said its the latest driver and said its a ISP problem.

anyway thinking of going over to Tuscile 3x at the same price I pay Fresserve they supply a external modem

regards
Hansram