Laptop motherboard

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Connie

I have a Compaq Presario V1000 laptop. I reinstall everything including the
OS (Win XP SP2) after a virus attack & its working. Now i'm trying to install
the motherboard drivers for some utilties such as Network cards to be
functional.
Now how do I check what type of motherboard (Aopen, or Foxcom etc) i have in
the laptop so i can install the appropriate drivers? I dont want to open the
laptop & see the motherboard details since i havent opened one before.

Thanks

Connie
 
Connie said:
I have a Compaq Presario V1000 laptop. I reinstall everything including the
OS (Win XP SP2) after a virus attack & its working. Now i'm trying to install
the motherboard drivers for some utilties such as Network cards to be
functional.
Now how do I check what type of motherboard (Aopen, or Foxcom etc) i have in
the laptop so i can install the appropriate drivers? I dont want to open the
laptop & see the motherboard details since i havent opened one before.

Thanks

Connie
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From the Start button, in Run, type msinfo32.exe, and enter. The
installed hardware should be listed under "Components". HTH.
 
Connie said:
I have a Compaq Presario V1000 laptop. I reinstall everything
including the OS (Win XP SP2) after a virus attack & its working. Now
i'm trying to install the motherboard drivers for some utilties such
as Network cards to be functional.
Now how do I check what type of motherboard (Aopen, or Foxcom etc) i
have in the laptop so i can install the appropriate drivers? I dont
want to open the laptop & see the motherboard details since i havent
opened one before.

Thanks

Connie
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You should be able to get the correct drivers from the HP site
(http://www.hp.com)
 
Thanks alot...found most drivers there.but only the ethernet controller for
my network.
Thanks
connie
 
Connie said:
Thanks alot...found most drivers there.but only the ethernet controller for
my network.
Thanks
connie
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OK. Tools you can try, to identify the hardware.

1) Everest (free). This tool is out of date, but I still like it.
It is my first choice, even if it ends up being more work to use.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4181.html

Look in Devices:PCI. Either the LAN chip will be properly
identified, or else you'll have two numbers next to
"Device ID". Those numbers are VEN and DEV.

For example, my Ethernet Device ID is 8086 1019

You can look up PCI IDs here. The first number is
leftmost on the page, and the second number will be
indented a bit.

http://pciids.sourceforge.net/pci.ids

If I scroll down far enough in that file, I find

"1019 82547EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller"

so then I know I have an 82547EI from Intel and
need to go to Intel to get a driver.

2) Sisoftware Sandra has a free edition.

Click "download" at the bottom of the "Lite" column.

http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/index.html?dir=&location=downandbuy&langx=en&a=

Don't install this, if you've got an older paid version of
Sandra already installed. The installs may interfere with one
another. (At least, I won't be trying that again...)

Sandra is probably more up to date, and won't need any
additional work to get an identity. If you've never used it
before, then by all means give it a try.

3) Belarc Advisor (free).

http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

Between all those tools, you should get an answer.

Paul
 
Thanks Paul,
I used the Belarc Advisor, got the right Ethernet ID & installed the
appropriate drivers. It's all working now.

thanks everyone.
connie
 
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