Driver Software

[jfespinoza]

I remember about a year ago I had a program that would auto update all my drivers and game versions. I just don't remember what it was called. Does anyone know of a software that will at least find and update all of my hardware drivers?

 

[engiNURD]

Did you try google? Personally, I wouldn't want such a program, as I only update drivers as needed. If it aint broke...

 

[jfespinoza]

Yeah I googled. There are so many driver softwares out there its crazy. The reason I am bringing this up is I went to go fix a friends computer that he had custom build but it didn't come with a drivers disc, and he wanted XP installed and he had Vista. So I had to manually hunt for every damn driver. and he had integrated intel video and stupid realtek audio. It was a pain in the ass to find the modem drivers and the correct audio driver.

 

[engiNURD]

Really? I always found it quite easy finding drivers I needed... unless they were for old components, or OEM. Was it a custom boutique build? or "custom" OEM build (Dell/HP/Alien/VD/etc)?

 

[jfespinoza]

It was a joke of a PC, It's got a custom case w/ an HP (ASUS) motherboard. so pretty much someone gutted an HP PC and slapped it in to a custom case with no driver discs. So I had to go to HP's website and try to find the drivers, BUT they only supplied drivers for Vista and this guy wanted XP. And Asus does not supply drivers for pre-built PC's like that. So the search game began.

 

[Jonnycat99]

So I had to manually hunt for every damn driver. and he had integrated intel video and stupid realtek audio. It was a pain in the ass to find the modem drivers and the correct audio driver.

Welcome to the world of building your own computer! Consider yourself lucky you don't have to set jumpers for IRQ and DMA settings (and hack the drivers to reflect changes) like we had to do not all that long ago.

 

[jfespinoza]

uummm.... I've been building computers for about 6yrs now. This isn't new to me so "the world of building computers" as you put it is not new to me at all. And this computer was only 1/2 custom built if you would have read the entire post. But thanks for not even contributing to the post and just throwing annoying comments in there, really gets the ball rolling here.