Drivers question

Rhino wrote:
> I'm trying to help a friend who has limited internet access with a problem
> he is having. According to his note:

What brand and model of PC and/or motherboard is it?

Generally, you need to get the drivers from the manufacturer's website
(eg from dell.com for Dell, Asus.com for Asus, etc). Even if the driver
is for part of the Intel chipset, such as ICH4. Intel usually only
provide drivers for their own Intel-brand motherboards (which are good
boards, but not very common).

Andrew
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amclar at optusnet dot com dot au

"Rhino" <no.offline.contact.please.TakeThisOut@example.com> wrote in message
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> I'm trying to help a friend who has limited internet access with a problem
> he is having. According to his note:
>
> ===============
> I reformatted an older MDG computer using a legit copy of XP, but the
> drivers for several of the systems on the motherboard were not there, and
> I cannot seem to locate them on the internet (and these are Intel
> drivers).
>
> The physical devices listed by Everest are as follows:
>
> Intel 82801DB ICH4 - LAN Controller with 82562ET/EZ PHY
> Intel 82801DB ICH4 - SMBus Controller [A-1]
> Intel 82801DB ICH4 - Enhanced USB2 Controller [A-1]
> Intel 82801DB ICH4 - AC'97 Audio Controller [A-1]
>
> The sound driver is the one I need the most, everything else seems to be
> working as far as I know.
>
> Any help you can send would be greatly appreciated
> ===============
>
> Can anyone suggest where he could find these drivers??
>
> --
> Rhino
>

If this is a Canadian company's MDG computer you may want to go to their web
site for assistance and technical support.

Rhino wrote:
> I'm trying to help a friend who has limited internet access with a problem
> he is having. According to his note:
>
> ===============
> I reformatted an older MDG computer using a legit copy of XP, but the
> drivers for several of the systems on the motherboard were not there, and I
> cannot seem to locate them on the internet (and these are Intel drivers).
>
> The physical devices listed by Everest are as follows:
>
> Intel 82801DB ICH4 - LAN Controller with 82562ET/EZ PHY
> Intel 82801DB ICH4 - SMBus Controller [A-1]
> Intel 82801DB ICH4 - Enhanced USB2 Controller [A-1]
> Intel 82801DB ICH4 - AC'97 Audio Controller [A-1]
>
> The sound driver is the one I need the most, everything else seems to be
> working as far as I know.
>
> Any help you can send would be greatly appreciated
> ===============
>
> Can anyone suggest where he could find these drivers??
>
> --
> Rhino
>
>

For LAN, I located an Asus P4BGL/VM motherboard with ICH4/82562ET. The ICH4 LAN interface
enumerates as 8086:103A, and I can find a match in the "net55a9x.inf" file.

( http://dlcdnas.asus.com/pub/ASUS/lan/intelan/lan_i61.zip )

This link may be a bit faster at the moment.

ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/asus/lan/intelan/lan_i61.zip

The SMBus could be resolved by the chipset drivers. Intel has
several vintages of Chipset INF drivers. The 9 series would be
for the latest stuff. This 6 series package, would cover something
like an 845 family Northbridge. Your Northbridge isn't mentioned
in your post, so this is just a wild guess on my part. There is
some room to mix and match chipset components.

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&ProductID=816&D...dID=817*&lang=eng

The USB controller could be handled by WinXP SP1 or a later WinXP
Service Pack. The driver is a standard one which comes from Microsoft,
and you should try to get your Enhanced entry in the USB section,
to work with the software already in WinXP.

This KB article, notes some screwing around with SP2. But I wouldn't
panic just yet.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/873169/en-us

The AC'97 is potentially the hardest one to solve. On the
one hand, there is one fewer component to make it work (no
UAA is needed). On the other hand, the driver is specific for a
Southbridge instance and also the AC'97 Codec chip. For example,
you might find a Soundmax driver for Intel Southbridges and VIA
Southbridges, but that particular driver doesn't handle an SIS
Southbridge. So you need to know the name of the AC'97 Codec,
and then look for a driver that covers ICH4.

The fastest way to figure that out, might be to visually check the
motherboard. There could be a CDROM audio header, near the Codec
chip for example. The Codec should also have a large number of
coupling capacitors around it, since audio devices all tend to be
AC coupled on inputs and outputs. I don't know how well some
of the popular enumeration utilities, like Belarc or Everest,
can deal with the Codec and get it right. The Codec enumeration
uses a limited number of bits, and is not nearly as "expressive"
as the LAN example was above.

In this example, you can see a square 48 pin chip with a RealTek
logo (looks like a crab). It happens to be next to the front panel
audio header (yellow). You'd need to get the part number off the
top of a similar square chip, to begin the hunt for a driver.

http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/sb/img/fp_audio.jpg

Paul

It might help if you look for and find the motherboard/chipset drivers,
these may contain all the drivers that you need. Try using the msinfo32
tool to see if you can find the information there. To run the tool just
enter msinfo32 in the Start menu run box. If you don't find what you
need there try running this command from the Command Prompt:

wmic baseboard list full

and see if you can see the information there. If you are having a hard
time interpreting the results of the wmic baseboard command run this one:

wmic baseboard list full >c:\board.txt

and then find the file c:\board.txt and post the contents of the file to
your next reply.

And then sometimes a guess and a search like this might find useful
information:

http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0geu6orgKBKjsUA_AZXNyoA?p=Intel+8...1+chips

From these results something like this might help:

http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/inf/sb/CS-009266.htm
Intel® Chipset Identification Utility - Utility to identify your Intel®
chipset

John

Rhino wrote:
> I'm trying to help a friend who has limited internet access with a problem
> he is having. According to his note:
>
> ===============
> I reformatted an older MDG computer using a legit copy of XP, but the
> drivers for several of the systems on the motherboard were not there, and I
> cannot seem to locate them on the internet (and these are Intel drivers).
>
> The physical devices listed by Everest are as follows:
>
> Intel 82801DB ICH4 - LAN Controller with 82562ET/EZ PHY
> Intel 82801DB ICH4 - SMBus Controller [A-1]
> Intel 82801DB ICH4 - Enhanced USB2 Controller [A-1]
> Intel 82801DB ICH4 - AC'97 Audio Controller [A-1]
>
> The sound driver is the one I need the most, everything else seems to be
> working as far as I know.
>
> Any help you can send would be greatly appreciated
> ===============
>
> Can anyone suggest where he could find these drivers??
>
> --
> Rhino
>
>

Rhino wrote:
> I'm trying to help a friend who has limited internet access with a
> problem he is having. According to his note:
>
> ===============
> I reformatted an older MDG computer using a legit copy of XP, but the
> drivers for several of the systems on the motherboard were not there,
> and I cannot seem to locate them on the internet (and these are Intel
> drivers).
> The physical devices listed by Everest are as follows:
>
> Intel 82801DB ICH4 - LAN Controller with 82562ET/EZ PHY
> Intel 82801DB ICH4 - SMBus Controller [A-1]
> Intel 82801DB ICH4 - Enhanced USB2 Controller [A-1]
> Intel 82801DB ICH4 - AC'97 Audio Controller [A-1]
>
> The sound driver is the one I need the most, everything else seems to
> be working as far as I know.
>
> Any help you can send would be greatly appreciated
> ===============
>
> Can anyone suggest where he could find these drivers??

If all else fails, you can buy a sound card for ten bucks that will COME
with its own drivers.

Andrew McLaren <me.RemoveThis@somewhere.com> écrivait
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> Rhino wrote:
>> I'm trying to help a friend who has limited internet access with a
>> problem he is having. According to his note:
>
> What brand and model of PC and/or motherboard is it?
>
> Generally, you need to get the drivers from the manufacturer's website
> (eg from dell.com for Dell, Asus.com for Asus, etc). Even if the
> driver is for part of the Intel chipset, such as ICH4. Intel usually
> only provide drivers for their own Intel-brand motherboards (which are
> good boards, but not very common).
>
> Andrew

From my experience and AFAIK Intel's chipset drivers from the Intel site
works with any MB that has Intel chipset.