ASUS P4C800 Deluxe mobo support

I recently received a hand-me-down custom build from a now ex-friend. I do not have the support cd, and the box had no hdd. I've installed a 500gb SATA drive and a oem xp pro from a 2 cpu key on my laptop. Long story short, I can't get any of the drivers to work, just yellow ? marks in the device manager for Ethernet Controllers and Multimedia Controllers. I tried to run the Intel Chipset v.5.02.1003 from the ASUS driver site but to no avail. Is there some solution for this issue, or am I dead in the water?

 

Here are some drivers for the motherboard
http://www.driverstock.com/ASUS-P4C800-driver-download/6-9-10005/index.html
note the OS it is for.

I'm trying to locate the manual in English but this site usa.asus.com
just gives me a down for maintenance.

 

Thanks, but I tried all of the usual drivers already and nothing seems to work. Is there an ISO for this mobo, or could this be a BIOS issue? All help is appreciatied.:-o

p.s. already have a .pdf of the manual. dowloaded the exact LAN driver that it specs, and still nothing. have tried to install driver for a USB wifi adapter SMC 2662 that I have and it intstalls but wont run or recognize in the wireless zero config

 

I have the same MB, just go to http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us the drivers on the web site work. You might have to uninstall the ? devices in the device manager, and "action" scan for new devices >>>>

 

I can't get the ASUS website to work either, looks like it's still down for maintenance. Bastards.

EDIT: Never mind, it's up again. Here: http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us XP downloads for your board

Anyways. Like others have said, get the drivers directly from ASUS, and I'd actually suggest not using the driver wizard in Windows. Just get the driver file, double-click it, and do the install manually. I've found it works better. Matter of fact, you may want to try a slightly drastic approach that I've found works pretty well with laptops: Get every single driver file you can find, and manually install all of them. I'm a bit confused though. I looked over the drivers they offer for the board and there is no Intel chipset driver among them. :confused

If you're not using the onboard devices, disable them in the BIOS settings. The board may still be trying to use it's own built-in NIC instead of the USB one you want to use. (Also, is it a full OEM version of XP, or an OEM version that was "trimmed" and "tweaked" for a specific system?)

Worst case scenario: Pull the CMOS battery, wipe the hard drive, and start over. And if you paid your friend for the board, ask for a refund.