jdunn
January 14th, 2003, 02:58 AM
Is there a website where I can have it look at my drivers and tell me which ones have up dates
Spider
January 14th, 2003, 04:50 AM
Those kinds of places may be handy for sitting in one place
to click on many things but there is no way to ensure the
driver they are providing is the absolute latest driver from
the manufacturer.
The best thing to do is make a list of the components the
computer has. Make a folder in My Documents and call it
Bckupdr or something, then make folders for each device
Video
Audio
Monitor (some have drivers not all)
Mouse (some have drivers not all)
Ether (NIC/Network card)
Motherboard (and within that other folders BIOS, Onboard)
DVD/CDRW
I usually add a full Registry backup and an Outlook backup as well.
Download and run Aida32 (http://www.cybertechhelp.com/html/downloads/download.php/id/30).
It will tell you model numbers etc. that your computer has.
Visit Google.com and find each manufacturer and the latest
drivers for your computer, download them into the appropriate
folders you made.
Once your confident you have everything then burn a CD with
that stuff on it. Put the CD with a boot floppy and put them in
a safe place.
You do this once. Once you've found which site has which drivers
then bookmark those sites. If you want to go further on the backup
then also burn to the CD the favorite bookmarks you made for
all the drivers. All those site short cuts can be found in
C:\Windows\Favorites or C:\WinNT\Favorites