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re: installing drivers Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 10:40 am Posted by Kevin (2497 messages posted) Chances are XP will install most, if not all, of the drivers for you -- except video, which you will probably need to download and install yourself. After XP is installed, go to Control Panel, System, click the hardware tab and then the Device Manager button. Check for devices with a yellow mark. These are devices for which you still need to install drivers (i.e., modem, network interface card, etc). If the PC is still bootable now, go to Control Panel and note the devices so you'll be better prepared to find drivers. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: installing drivers Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 10:45 am Posted by Rich Kurtz (12246 messages posted) Depends, what kind of computer, desktop or laptop. XP will handle a lot of the hardware in desktop system but little of the laptop. For a laptop you will need mother board chipset driver, video, audio, modem and network. All should be available from the manufacturers web site. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: installing drivers Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 1:21 pm Posted by alex (2812 messages posted) If the machine is still running backup all drivers with this free prog. Backup drivers; DriverMax 1.2 On Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 10:15 am, Mike wrote: >SO my friend has a realy screwed up computer well worthy of reformating. what are >the essential drivers to be installed? for 1, i know the intel chipset, 2 the sound, >3 the gfx, are the ide ata controller driver essential? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: installing drivers Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 1:28 pm Posted by Ricer46 (23825 messages posted) What drivers do you need? No one here can answer that question because no one here knows what hardware you have installed. For example drivers for the Intel chipset are fairly useless if you don't have an Intel m/b. The most essential is the ethernet driver, without that one, you can't get to the net to d/l the other drivers that you need that aren't on your all too short list. On Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 10:15 am, Mike wrote: >SO my friend has a realy screwed up computer well worthy of reformating. what are >the essential drivers to be installed? for 1, i know the intel chipset, 2 the sound, >3 the gfx, are the ide ata controller driver essential? [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum