BigDawg99 Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 i just got this machine from a buddy of mine for my fishing vessel...i had to reformat it to windows XP so it would run the Nobeltec Software program i use....i need to find the drivers i need like Audio,,Video and Etc.....Is there a program out there that is free to use to let me know which hardware i have on this computer...i have opened up the machine and found some numbers on it but nothing much..i found a SIS 966L chip on there...not sure what its for though...it comes up with alot of different drivers... i would greatly appreciate it if you can direct me to a program where i can identify my chipsets and Audio and video Drivers that i need....thanks.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HX1 Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 AIDA64 will identify most of them.. Have you tried Microsoft Update?.. or do you not have a Network Card Driver? SIS I hate I have seen a couple of these for systems.. come with some extra crap and the one I was dealing with would not work proper;y unless it was using a package which was several years old.. and I had to search awhile to find it.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grouchysmurf Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 I do not know if this is proper to do, but I am going to refer you to a programthat helped me, offered here at nsane....Driver GeniusFollow the instructions closely. I would think that you will probablyonly need to run it once. It helped me out a great deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OhMyGod Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Try getting the driver from Nobeltec's website- http://cms.nobeltec.com/CMS/Support/SupportDownloads/SupportDownloadsDongle.aspxThanks. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlienForce1 Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 There is also another method : Manually Identifying The Unknown Devices To manually identify the devices we have to find out the device instance ID which has two parts, one is the vendor ID and the second is Device ID. Once we have got the vendor ID and identified the device ID, we can easily find the drivers for our device. To find the device instance ID go to Device Manager –> Right click the unknown device –> Properties –> Details. Now from the drop down menu select Device Instance Path (Windows Vista)/ Device Instance ID (Windows XP) It will give you a string value which contains the vendor ID and the Device ID. The string is like this:HDAUDIOFUNC_02&VEN_14F1&DEV_5045&SUBSYS_103C30D5&REV_10014&2675E3A&0&0002 ( this is an example , on your comp. the text will be different ) Where red is the Vendor ID and green is the Device ID. Note down both of them. Once you have the Vendor ID and the device ID, you can go to the following websites and find out the vendor and device name and search for its drivers.http://www.pcidatabase.com/http://www.pcisig.com/membership/vid_search/http://pciids.sourceforge.net/You can also download PCI Utilities ( http://mj.ucw.cz/pciutils.html ) which displays the Vendors and devices in human readable format instead of the alphanumeric code characters.Now after all that work you can enjoy your comp. B)PS : if on the sites indicated you do not find your `unknown devices` you can still search on Google keeping the main ideea explained above . Good luck ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadioActive Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 You can also download PCI Utilities ( http://mj.ucw.cz/pciutils.html ) which displays the Vendors and devices in human readable format instead of the alphanumeric code characters.Now after all that work you can enjoy your comp. B)PS : if on the sites indicated you do not find your `unknown devices` you can still search on Google keeping the main ideea explained above . Good luck !Is there a a GUI or a pre-compiled version of it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlienForce1 Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 In the ex. above described - here is what we have (as results) searching as explained : Vendor Search Results (http://www.pcidatabase.com/search.php?vendor_search_str=14F1&vendor_search=Search)Returning 1 match for: "14F1"Sorted by: Vendor IDVendor Id Vendor Name0x14F1 Conexant Systems, Inc.Device Search Results (http://www.pcidatabase.com/search.php?device_search_str=5045&device_search=Search)Returning 5 matches for: "5045"Sorted by: Device IDDevice Id Chip Description Vendor Id Vendor Name0x5045 Rage 128 Pro PE AGP 2x 0x1002 ATI Technologies Inc. / Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.0x5045 http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=ob-43284-1&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us& 0x14F1 Conexant Systems, Inc.0x50451 Conextant High Definition Audio-Venice 5051 0x14F1 Conexant Systems, Inc.0x50452 Conextant High Definition SmartAudio 221 0x14F1 Conexant Systems, Inc.0x50452 Conextant High Definition Audio-Venice 5051 0x14F1 Conexant Systems, Inc. LohengrinIs there a a GUI or a pre-compiled version of it?Yes there is a portable version of `Unknown Devices` (http://www.halfdone.com/ukd/) which has the last released vers.1.4.20 (beta) (June 2, 2007) - download : http://www.halfdone.com/ukd/UKD_14-20_Beta.zip (Zip file, no install. Includes the program itself and the pcidevs.txt file) halfdone : let me know if you have any issues at [email protected] , or at http://forums.halfdone.com/ . The beta version works with Win95, 98, 98se, 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista. This progr. can be found also on MajorGeeks : http://majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=3908 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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