Tim’s free- for- all driver guide. Last updated 2. 3- 5- 2. Short link to this page: www. Shorter link: Tell them to google for tim’s driver guide! For news/updates regarding this page, see http: //www. Read this first. Instead of individually blogging about each and every random device and its driver I come across, I’ve decided to make up this page to list them all. This is partly for my own reference, and partly for everybody else’s reference – I’m sick of random bits of hardware I can’t use unless I sign up to driverguide or its sister sites and pay for the privilege of using the stuff I already own. There will be no sponsored links, ads, compulsory registration or any such nonsense, and it’ll remain as long as I can support and maintain it myself. All the drivers I’m hosting are in http: //tim. I’m hoping Google will index at some point and show up in searches for exact filenames and such (hint: searching for “index of” filename often turns up plain folders like that full of drivers). Realtek AC'97 Audio Free Driver Download for Windows XP - Realtek. World's most popular driver download site.
Plenty of drivers for XP tend to work with 2. I recommend 7- Zip (which is faster than XP’s zip engine anyway so consider using it regardless). Feedback. I love feedback, of every kind. Did one of my drivers work for you? CMedia AC97 Audio Device Free Driver Download for Windows XP - wdm. World's most popular driver download site. ![]() Did you try one out and it didn’t work? Email me and let me know, because I can only do so much testing. Everything on this page I’ve personally tested to work on at least one computer somewhere. Copyright. If you happen to hold copyright on any of the software I’ve made available for download, feel free to let me know, and I’ll be more than happy to remove it. Please note that if your software is on my driver page, it’s probably because it’s difficult to find, and I ask that you help out and give me a direct link to a download page on your website for the same drivers. Driver requests. Do you need a driver that isn’t on this page? Email me with the vendor and device IDs (you’ll find these in a string of text in the device’s properties page – something like PCI\VEN. And my customers love me, so there. Please note all I’m doing is finding existing drivers on the net, and making them available for download from my own site; I have nothing to do with software development, and haven’t (and can’t!) write custom drivers for you. If you absolutely can’t find a working driver, I recommend chucking out the offending hardware and replacing it with a product whose maker cares about its customers for longer than it takes to get paid by them. You can find my email address here. Software. CPU- ZCPU- Z is a free and frequently updated app that identifies key parts of your hardware – namely, the CPU, RAM, and motherboard specs. Apart from being technically interesting, it’s the easiest way to find out what chipset your system has. Unknown Devices (UKD)Unknown Devices (UKD) gets used every day at work. It’s a tiny program that’ll check out the vendor and device IDs of all your hardware, compare them to a near- encyclopedic list, and tell you exactly what you’re missing a driver for. It’s even more perfect that it’s completely free. Motherboard. Chipset and onboard devices. I’d recommend installing the chipset drivers first, as they frequently include drivers for onboard sound, networking or video, which can save you the time of hunting them down one by one. Conversely, Windows XP includes full drivers for plenty of older boards – it fully supports i. I know – so you may only have to download one or two other drivers. Use CPU- Z to find out what chipset you have. In the screenshot above, for example, this is the Intel i. G or GZ. Using Intel’s Download Center site, search for “i. Mobile option if it’s a laptop, pick your version of Windows, and download whatever’s relevant (in this case, you’d want the executable (“exe”), non- Developer “Intel Graphics Media Accelerator Driver”. Common chipset manufacturers at the moment are Intel, AMD/ATi, NVidia (the “n. Force” product line is motherboard chipsets), VIA and Si. S. There are far too many options for me to sensibly mirror here, so here’s links to the current download sites of the above: Installing the chipset drivers will deal with unknown devices like PCI bridges and the SMBus. ASUS ATK0. 10. 0\0. If you’re using an ASUS laptop or a machine with an ASUS motherboard, you might have an “ATK0. ATK0. 10. 0” unknown device; this is something to do with ACPI on ASUS computers, and a driver is available on their site in the downloads section for your particular board. I’m also mirroring it here: There’s a distinct difference between the two. The ATK0. 10. 0 seems to be in laptops while the 0. ACPI\IFX0. 10. 1 TPM device. This is the Infineon Trusted Platform Module device on Hewlett- Packard NC4. Infineon don’t seem to publish a driver themselves; get it from HP’s website. I’ve also found this in a Toshiba Tecra A3. X, which seems to be on the Australian site but not the US one. Away mode seems to be like a lesser standby, where things can wake up faster. What I can tell from what I can find on the subject is that you need a Media Centre OS (XP MCE or Vista) to have a driver for this device, and it’s irrelevant and harmless if you don’t. To get rid of it, disable “Media Center Away Mode” or “AMD Live!” in BIOS. ACPI\CPL0. 00. 2This is the battery meter and wireless select switch driver on Dell Mini Inspiron 9. Check out Dell’s site for this driver. ACPI\HPQ0. 00. 4This is the hard drive freefall sensor in some HP laptops, including the DV6. It’s sometimes called the “Mobile Data Protection Sensor”, which sounded like something to do with security. HP call it 3. D Driveguard. Get it from their site here. ACPI\HPQ0. 00. 6This is the HP Quicklaunch buttons on the 6. Get it from HP here. ACPI\HPQ0. 00. 7HP Quicklaunch buttons on 6. Get it here. ACPI\IBM0. This is IBM’s Power Management driver on Thinkpad laptops. It’s available on Lenovo’s website, but to save time, get it from me here: ACPI\MAT0. ACPI\MAT0. 02. 0 on Panasonic Toughbooks. These are Hotkey and Hotkey Plus devices on Panasonic Toughbook notebooks. You can find drivers for these on Panasonic’s website here, or from me below: ACPI\NSC1. Winbond TPM device. This TPM device is found in IBM/Lenovo T4. R5. 2 laptops and probably many others. Get the driver (says it supports 2. XP and Vista) from IBM’s site here. ACPI\SMCF0. 30 SMC IR device. This is the IR port on many Toshibas including the Tecra M2, and (I think) some Dells. Toshiba. com. au didn’t list the driver for this or the soundcard for an M2 I worked on, but the US site did. Get it from there, or me here: ACPI\WEC1. ACPI\WEC1. 02. 1 Winbond IR device. Found in a Toshiba Satellite A2. These are the Intel HECI (“Host Embedded Controller Interface”) on their “Ibex Peak” (5- series) chipsets. I’ve seen these devices in some recent Toshiba Satellite laptops, and they’re likely in others too. Windows 7 has no clue where to find the driver, and Toshiba actually didn’t list the driver on their site for the A5. I saw at work. Fortunately, the exact same device is in the Acer Aspire 7. G, which is fully supported on Acer’s site. Once the driver is installed, this device shows up as the i. AMT (Intel Active Management Technology), or Intel Management Engine, or something. Get the driver from Acer or from me here: F6 drivers. Everything you could possibly want to know about F6 preinstallation drivers is now contained in my F6 driver guide. Video cards. NVidia and ATi (Geforce and Radeon)Both these companies have pretty good driver support even for obsolete or “legacy” hardware. If you can’t find the card you’re after, dig around in the legacy/integrated/mobile sections. Recent versions of the ATi Catalyst Control Center require Microsoft . NET Framework 2. 0 to be installed – download that from Microsoft here. If you’re pretty sure you’ve downloaded the exact right driver and it’s refusing to install (it might say it can’t detect any supported hardware), you might have a brand- modified version of the card – some mobile Radeons for example won’t work with anything but the driver supplied by the maker of the laptop itself. You can hunt down a driver from them, but a simpler solution is to use the Omega drivers, or laptopvideo. Vidia laptops in particular. Intel. Intel graphics chips are usually part of a motherboard with integrated video; as far as I know XP already has inbuilt drivers for older cards like the i. They publish a couple of different drivers depending on the chipset, so it’s important you know which one you need (running the wrong installer will simply error out and say it can’t find any compatible hardware. There’s some cross- support between some packages; go with my links below and you’ll get the latest driver for each particular chip. TV Tuner cards. To run a TV tuner in a PC, you need both the driver for the hardware, and some kind of software to talk to it to actually watch TV. If you’ve lost the original CD and can’t find a decent TV app, I recommend Media. Portal for XP and suggest you try Windows Media Centre if you happen to have Vista Home Premium or XP MCE. I’ve never tried Chris. TV myself, but it’d probably be the easiest way to get TV working again if it supports your device (it comes packaged with drivers for a few different analogue cards). As for drivers, get UKD to tell you what card it is and go get drivers off the manufacturer’s site. If that doesn’t work out, you can try one of these: Soundcards. ASUS Xonar D2. XThis funky little PCI- E thing – 1. Windows 7 as a C- Media card for some reason, but the driver it suggests in Problems and Solutions does not work – the installer for it errors out saying “Plug in C- Media Oxygen HD Audio Device!”. It’s best to get the driver for this card straight from ASUS here. AC9. 7 audio. AC9. Intel to unify soundcards and make life a bit easier, but which driver you need depends on which particular AC9.
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