[acesover8s]

I run multiple PCs for various reasons. I have one emachines desktop that I was going to wipe and start over with. When I wiped it, I left the PCAngel partition intact in order to load fresh from there, but something was wrong with the files and it wouldn't load.

I have since tried to reload my legitimate copies of XP onto this PC, and every time it has the same problem. Under device manager, under other devices the following devices show up with a question mark:

Multimedia audio controller
Other PCI bridge device
PCI Simple Communications Controller
SM Bus Controller
Video Controller (VGA Compatible)

It cannot recognize my modem or ethernet, either.

I loaded a spanish version of windows and this problem didn' t happen, but running an illegitimate version of windows that I don't understand doesn't strike me as being smart.

I tried downloading drivers from AMD, as well as using multiple windows disks to search for the drivers to no avail. Help!