Re: Driver Updates

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Oh, and Rock (foundation)...not messing with you, but what is an NIC driver
as it
seems to make music @ 128 kbps sound true enough. I mean at my age, one half
of one hundred, my system is used for pretty basic stuff and I am still
learning this
computer world : )
--
Ask, Seek, Knock


"Allen" wrote:

Yes now I understand, and this is what the XP NG is all about ! Also would
like to
clear this up w/ Malke...when I viewed your answer to my ? which was posted w/
another browser...the part about sound drivers are O.K. to update, did not
show
when I returned to look at the Newsgroup answers. Oh and thankyou Malke for
such a quick response to the ?. The old sound driver was playing the Sub too
loud
even with it at null and equalizer flat across the board. The newer sound
driver
made all that stuff just right. Thank you guys for this XP NG as it has
helped me
very much w/ past A.S.K. 's
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Ask, Seek, Knock


"Rock" wrote:

"Allen" wrote

Thank you Malke, I will let it be. But the update to my systems Realtek
AC97
Audio
made a nice improvement and had a cool little surround toy that showed
what
the
SRS TruSurround can do w/ just two speakers et subwoofer!!!

"Malke" wrote:

Allen wrote:

For the life of me I cannot find a site without a broken link for a
Realtek RTL 8139/
801x Fast Fam. Ethernet NIC driver update. I have ver. 5.641.209.2006
but
according to DriverAgent.com it is out of date. HELP! please

Is your ethernet working? Yes? Then leave it alone. Best practice with
drivers is "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". I certainly wouldn't be
relying on something like DriverAgent.com to govern my actions regarding
updating drivers.

The only time you really need to update drivers is if the new drivers
will
give you some added functionality. You normally only see this in video
and
sound drivers, and even then if you're not a gamer trying to squeeze
every
last bit of speed to get the framerates up you wouldn't bother doing
this.

Oh, and don't ever install a driver from Windows Updates either.

Improved functionality with a sound card driver is one thing, but what more
would you expect with the NIC driver? If the computer connects to the
internet and is stable in the connection there's not much more to want, and
why mess with changing something that's working ok?

--
Rock [MVP - User/Shell]


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