It sounds to me like you've not installed the drivers for your system components. If you've simply installed Windows, and not any further device drivers for your motherboard and your display card, do the following:
Visit your motherboard's download page and download the VIA chipset driver, LAN driver and Sound driver
http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWeb/Downloa...c=KT600-A(1.0)
Visit the ATi website and download the latest Radeon family Graphics card driver for your Windows version
http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html
Install them in the order I've listed them.
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