Fresh z557 overhaul and now need drivers i never needed before

Question

i have always loved this z557 media center for its very unique case and features, but a decade has passed and well, it needed a lil more gusto to keep up with modern times! and when the power supply burnt out for its 3rd time i decided its finally time to do a complete overhaul. i gutted out and updated everything but all the front panel components and pci cards. im not sure what all imformation on my new hardware is relavent so please ask and i will tell. i know these z series media centers were all intel processors, and i stayed with an asus mobo but went with an amd A8 processor and chipset instead, could that be the cause of my problems? i will also tell you this overhaul did require more than a few modifications that most people would likely not attempt. but i beleive everything to be connected as it should and all else functions as is should. so yes, i do have a strong understanding of computers and electronics in general, but on an amature/hobby level. i may have something connected wrong, but to best of my knowledge, the problem is just in finding drivers to these older components.
in the past, when i upgraded from windows xp to windows 7 (not changing any hardware) i never needed to install drivers for these components to work. other than the wifi and hauppauge tv cards, but those arnt very important to me right now beacuse im using LAN and netflix to watch tv. not sure if it makes any difference that those were 32bit versions and now im using 64bit, but anyways, lets just take this one issue at a time... and in order of importance
what i want is to keep functionality of the front panel LCD, wireless keyboard, IR remote, aswell as the tv tuner cards if possible for future use. i havnt tested the front composite AV inputs, 4pin 1394, 1/4 headphone out, 1/8 mic input yet beacause they arnt very important to me just yet, but are all part of the same circuit board in the front corner to the LCD keyboard and remote. the usb and card readers on the othe side work fine and the personal media drive was removed which is irrelevant anyhow. im just stuck on trying to figure out this annoying front panel display right now, so...
starting with the LCD display on the front. i used to have a DEC icon in my control panel window that gave me options for the brightness and such for it. i never had to install anything for it to work on first boot up. not even windows updates. yes, i had problems in the past with it not working perfectly, and hp website does have a patch for that, but its not an all inclusive driver to make the display work. how can it get it to show the time after windows is all booted up (like usual) and all its other functions working, instead of it just showing the welcome to the "hp digital entertainment center" marque over and over and over?
next is the IR remote. when i have a playlist playing (in windows media player) i could skip tracks, pause, change the volume... etc. with this remote, and now its entirely unrecognized. i dont believe it ever had an icon for options in the control panel. i beleive its power is fed from the same board the front panel display and 49MHz wireless keyboard, so id imagine it is getting power in the tower but no light to indicate its functioning, and batteries are good in the handheld, so ummm... yea
which leads me next to the awesome lil keyboard with track ball and such. again, i never had to install any specific drivers for it to work, but not sure if it was a windows update or something included from the windows os install disk. i always used a wired usb keyboard, and still do just for reliability. but ive put fresh batteries into the keyboard itself, and pushed the buttons to pair it up and... never seems to connect. the green light by the button on the front panel doesnt flash like it used to when receiving keyboard communications either. any number of attempts leads to same result.
last is the tv tuner cards. i removed the second card and only have the main one in with the 2 RF connections. hauppauge wintv pvr-26652 PCI II. its also the only search that brought me results in these forums here. which i did read and was about trouble with finding the proper drivers. this is also the only thing listed in the device manger as having an issue. but listen to this, there is a small wire harness that goes from the front panel board that connects to this tv tuner card. i dont know if they are reliant on each other in any way, or if its just to control the front LCD and function off the IR remote? but its connected, as well as the blue AAFP wire harness, and red harness to usb34. i cant think it would make any diffence connecting the red harness to the usb56... maybe ill try that next. my mobo is asus a78m-e
so any advice, links or things to try or check out would be greatly appreciated. thanks so much guys!

Answer 1

the only device brought to my attention in the device manager is the tv tuner card. Hauppauge wintv pvr pci ii (26xxx)
under sound, video and game controllers. there are 5 strings listed under value, if you only need the last one it is
PCI/VEN_4444&DEV_0016&CC_0400
on the general tab it opens up to, under device status it says: this device cannot find enough free resources that it can use. (code 12) if you want to use this device, you will need to disable one of the other devices on this system.
not sure exactly which devices it is refering to that i "need to disable". the only other listings on the sound, video and game controllers tree is: AMD high definition audio device and realtek high definition audio. seems strange to have two different audio drivers... but i do have a small s/pdif optical audio out card added. then on the face of the case (specific to the z series) in the lower left corner is the composite av inputs aswell as headphones and mic jacks. plus the integrated blue, green, pink eigth inch jacks on the back of the mobo.
i dont know if the IR remote and keyboard would be under human interface devices, keyboard devices or mice and other pointing devices. but the last string in all of them is  HID_DEVICE
no idea which branch would contain the front panel lcd
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