driver problems

emp|typ|athetic · Post by **emp|typ|athetic** » Tue May 27, 2003 3:53 pm

duh! i should have posted here earlier

ive recently formatted my hd and now i have no audio\video drivers installed, and i dont remeber what drivers i had, and i cant check because theyre not installed so my system doesnt recognise them..
so its a life drainng loop of doom and despair!

does anyone know of any sound\video drives i can download that work fine with any kind of hardware, or something..
*sigh* i actually have no idea what im talking about..

if anyone here knows of any such thing just, you know, post..

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Tue May 27, 2003 4:26 pm

What version of windows are you running?

Did you build the PC yourself or buy it from a company?

Do you have any of the CDs that came with the hardware/computer?

~klinky

emp|typ|athetic · Post by **emp|typ|athetic** » Tue May 27, 2003 6:23 pm

win98

got it on sale from the company where my mom works. aparently they self-asembled it, but it's mostly IBM aptiva.. i think

um, i pretty much lost all the discs that came with it a couple of years ago..

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Tue May 27, 2003 6:31 pm

Man try to find a model number on it.

:/ Look in the device manager see if you have anything under unknown devices. If it has a ? mark or something.

If not that open the thing up and look at the cards for identifying markers. Like chips that have brand names or something.

~klinky

SS5_Majin_Bebi · Post by **SS5_Majin_Bebi** » Tue May 27, 2003 7:50 pm

klinky wrote:Man try to find a model number on it.

:/ Look in the device manager see if you have anything under unknown devices. If it has a ? mark or something.

If not that open the thing up and look at the cards for identifying markers. Like chips that have brand names or something.

~klinky

Although that course of action doesnt always work. Take for example, my brothers video card. Its an nVidia vanta (his system is a few years old, hes only 13, jeez) but when we looked on it, all we found was a few chips that said "Hyundai". I thought "I aint never heard of a Hyundai video card before..."

If you are on the net, sometimes the codecs for certain audio/video files will download automatically. if not, you can just right-click them, check the properties and see what you need that way. Or just get one of those evil codec packs like Nemo (i have it, theres a few things i needed, but it tried to tazke over my programs, the evilness!

)

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Tue May 27, 2003 8:04 pm

I don't know what codecs have to do with his video and audio. I mean viewing divx @ 16colors with no sound is not a pleasant experience. -_-.

As long as you can get the video card out of there and look on it and see a FCC ID number(all electronics have them) you can goto the FCC's website and look up who owns the ID. From there you can find their website and drives MAYBE.

But most of the time the chips will have a name like Rage3D or nVidia, Creative on them or something :/. OR a model # like emu10k1.

~klinky

SS5_Majin_Bebi · Post by **SS5_Majin_Bebi** » Tue May 27, 2003 8:07 pm

oops, my bad...I read the post and misinterpreted it. Soz.

emp|typ|athetic · Post by **emp|typ|athetic** » Tue May 27, 2003 8:41 pm

my machine - IBM aptiva model no.2178-B3G

and yes i did go to system and there WAS unidentified software marked on 'other devices'
one of which is 'PCI communication device', and the other is just 'unknown device'

SS5_Majin_Bebi · Post by **SS5_Majin_Bebi** » Tue May 27, 2003 8:47 pm

emp|typ|athetic wrote:my machine - IBM aptiva model no.2178-B3G

and yes i did go to system and there WAS unidentified software marked on 'other devices'
one of which is 'PCI communication device', and the other is just 'unknown device'

PCI Communications Device is either a Modem or a network card.

kthulhu · Post by **kthulhu** » Tue May 27, 2003 9:17 pm

Try <a href="http://www-3.ibm.com/pc/support/site.ws ... m">this</a> site.