Re: Multimedia Audio Controller Driver and Others
- From: "DL" <address@invalid>
- Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:17:14 -0000
Since its a Dell its probably a waste of time looking anywhere but Dell
"Paul" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:frk5ae$sl7$1@xxxxxxxxxxx
Nick wrote:
Hey, I recently cleaned off my whole desktop computer and with that i
lost all the drivers. I need the following Drivers for a Dell Dimension
4700 with windows xp home edition version 2002 SP2
It is a Intel(R) Petium 4 CPU 2.80GHz 512 Ram
I NEED THE LINKS TO THE FOLLOWING DRIVERS:
Multimedia Audio Controller
PCI Modem
Video Controller
Video Controller (VGA compatible)
ANY HELP WOULD BE GREAT!!
I can see Sound and Video entries on the left sidebar here.
http://search.dell.com/results.aspx?c=ca&l=en&s=gen&cat=sup&k=Dimension+4700&rpp=12&p=1&subcat=dyd&rf=all&nk=f&ira=False&~srd=False&ipsys=False&advsrch=False
If it was my computer, I'd get a copy of Everest or Sisoftware
Sandra, and list the hardware there. Then, knowing the brand
and model of the various extra items, track down drivers
from there.
Everest Free (up to date versions sold on the lavalys.com web site)
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4181.html
For built-in sound ("Multimedia Audio Controller"), the Dell link
above is definitely the best source. Those driver downloads tend
to be a bit custom in nature, and there isn't a single Analog
Devices driver that handles everything. So tracking down
built-in sound can be a pain, and using the Dell link is
the easiest alternative.
But for other things that take the form of "add-in" cards,
like if there was an ATI video card in a video card slot,
then going to the ATI site might give you a driver.
Video can also be built-in, but if you can figure out the
make and model of the chipset on the motherboard, then
the chipset maker may have some nice drivers for the
hardware.
Dell may have a lot of the stuff, if you can go through their
list and figure out what file you should be downloading
and using.
For the modem, "PCI modem" doesn't mean anything to us, and
there are a gazillion brands/models of modems out there.
The Dell list may be the best source for that one as well.
Knowing and understanding just what hardware is in the computer,
is still important, as the Dell list may contain more drivers
than there is hardware in your computer. If the computer had some
optional hardware, drivers for it may be in the Dell list. So
the user still needs to know what is inside the computer, to
intelligently select drivers to try.
Paul
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