YIKES - Win 7 disaster!

No, I reinstalled the drivers myself - the ones that came with the system, not the generic MS ones.

I found the CDs that come with the boards are often out dated. Your post sounds like the typical outdated BIOS and drivers headaches.

It seems that after 2 decades of Windows this area could have been nailed down but it hasn't.

Ask the machine's makers for what BIOS and drivers are known to work.
Bob

Those drivers are for Vista, not Win7. They can be used as a last resort in a lot of situations, but it's better to have something designed for 7.

Also, it's "dual" core, as in plural or two. A duel is a ritualistic fight. You might have a duel at dawn with dual pistols however.

one could own and still can buy dueling pistols which would be a matched set specifically to insure a level playing field in a hardware sense. I'm not sure what sort of mindset it takes to own these for their intended purpose which would be to put a final end to a dispute. I suppose that a misbehaving dual core processor system could be due to dueling.

I don't know... Some people who buy those cheap low end HP and Acer systems might eventually become frustrated enough having a duel with their dual core system is warranted. A few fair minded people might point out that a computer can't really fight back, but I say that's kind of the point.

It is also kind of amusing just how long dueling laws were left on the books in a lot of states because no one ever really thought to repeal them when dueling went out of fashion. I, for one, think we need to bring it back. Be a great way to break some of these political deadlocks in this country, and I suspect many MPs from our friends across the pond might have a few scores they'd like to settle. It'd certainly make it more interesting when the PM is brought in to Parliament for question time. Some MP accuses the PM of lying, the PM then challenges the MP to a duel to satisfy his besmirched honor. Tell me there isn't a certain appeal to that idea. Go on, tell me!

But we digress, and really should refrain from carrying on with this topic.

Ah-Ha ? well, it?s obvious I?m wasting your valuable time here. I apologize ? I was under the mistaken belief this was a website designed to assist non-tech users with resolving their system problems. I am not an IT person and fail to ?get? what you are referring to. Sorry to have bothered you.

This was just a typo that developed into an unrelated sub-thread. The homonyms, duel and dual, become irresistible in a weakly humorous sense. A "duel" is fight...or battle of wits...between two entities. You have a dual (two) core processor system you're "fighting" with but used wrote it as "duel" core. So, in a sense, the typo made some (weakly) humorous sense. That's it and nothing more. I should have dummied up. Sorry.

a few of our MPs duel at dawn.

Mark