drivers for my bloody pc!!

[Elliott]

ive got a advent system and its got

e vista on it. im gonna be putting XP on it but firstly i cant even find the drivers for my pc and i didnt get a disk with the drivers on, so i want the drivers before i reformat it.

anybody no were i can get them from or....

 

[llwyd]

google?

you need to know what hardware is in the pc first

 

[Elliott]

i have searched google mate.

i dont know whats in it. its a generic system i brought it , didnt build it!

 

[Pat123]

Well is it the one in your sig? Vista's great i dont understand why people hate it.

 

[kendo]

Have you tried:

http://www.uktsupport.co.uk/advent/advidx.htm - they have the specs for advent kit and some driver links.

right clicking 'my computer' for the properties gives you the chip details (just in case you need this.

 

[llwyd]

Use something like Everest to find out then

If you use Vista it will find everything for you anyway

 

[Elliott]

yeah i use vista so that wil find them automatically for me?

 

[Elliott]

Well is it the one in your sig? Vista's great i dont understand why people hate it.

yeah its the one in my sig mate.

Have you tried:

http://www.uktsupport.co.uk/advent/advidx.htm - they have the specs for advent kit and some driver links.

right clicking 'my computer' for the properties gives you the chip details (just in case you need this.

thanks i cant remember what model my PC is though it isnt on the front only says Advent

Use something like Everest to find out then

whats that? site?

If you use Vista it will find everything for you anyway

vista is

 

[llwyd]

vista is

well it can find the right drivers so its got one up on you already lol

just download and install everest, take down what hardware is in it, save the correct ethernet drivers to a disc and reformat to xp. with the ethernet drivers installed you will be able to download all the latest drivers

 

[Elliott]

well it can find the right drivers so its got one up on you already lol

just download and install everest, take down what hardware is in it, save the correct ethernet drivers to a disc and reformat to xp. with the ethernet drivers installed you will be able to download all the latest drivers

whats the site to download it mate i cant find it?

 

[kendo]

You probably have a T9508?

Try running the system scan option at http://www.driverguide.com/

 

[Elliott]

what does this exactly do. it doesnt get drivers for you does it its jus scanned and told me nout

 

[kendo]

These sites tell you whether your drivers are up to date. You have to save it then run/install both the driversguide and Everest home edition 2.5. If you want an online scan, try driveragent.com. Again, these have a membership fee for driver downloads but they do tell you what's in your PC.

For an install of XP, I just let XP have a go with what it has, then get updates myself based on what components any of the 3 driver search agents above have identified as being out of date.

 

[llwyd]

http://www.lavalys.com/

 

[Hassan]

Some computers come with their drivers on a seperate partition or inside the main partition hiding inside a folder.

My laptop had its drivers on the other partition

Hope this is any help to you

 

[Elliott]

Some computers come with their drivers on a seperate partition or inside the main partition hiding inside a folder.

My laptop had its drivers on the other partition

Hope this is any help to you

oh right how do you get to see this dude? because i rekon mine could be

 

[llwyd]

even if there are drivers on there and they're hidden they'll be old as fu*k

i dont get what the big complication is, download the app from the link i gave you and it will tell you everything, then just do as i said

 

[kendo]

If you look in....

C:\applications\drivers

C:\applications\tools

That's where Techguys say they are for Advent PCs

But as llwyd says, they will be old and the Everest program will tell you everything so you can download the up to date versions.

 

[Elliott]

If you look in....

C:\applications\drivers

C:\applications\tools

That's where Techguys say they are for Advent PCs

But as llwyd says, they will be old and the Everest program will tell you everything so you can download the up to date versions.

yeah ive done that

C:\applications\drivers

C:\applications\tools

but theres only 3 drivers. Chipset, Sound and VGA! what about the others?

 

[nepas]

thats all you need along with the ethernet driver