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I've had to reinstall Windows 2000 on a machine. Problem is this: I have two devices I'm having troubles getting drivers for. One is the audio card, and the other might be some device on it. The card's labeling says its a Soundblaster Live! 5.1. I've tried both the regular driver and the dell driver, and both swear they've never heard of the card before. I've backed up all the files from the old install, so the drivers the old install should still be there - somewhere. Where does W2k keep its drivers, and can I just point the device manager to where the old drivers are kept?
 
Search the model # printer in the card and google it, prolly its a sound blaster live! made by Compaq, in this case, only Compaq drivers will work on it :(

OldMX
 
Update: I've more or less resolved the problem. Here's what happend in case somebody finds this thread by searching for a solution to a similar problem. I pointed the device manager to the old install's windows\inf\ folder. It found the correct inf. This wasn't enough to reinstall the driver, but it was enough to tell me what driver I should be looking for. (I think it was the Compaq.)

However, the same trick didn't work with an Unknown Device. I even tried copying all the infs in the backup folder to a single directory and searching that. The only thing I know about this device is that it's Location: on Microsoft-compatible ACPI platform. Or something like that. I've pretty much given up trying to figure it out. Since everything seems to working, I'm hoping that this device isn't that important.
 
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