Thanks,
It is concentrating on updating the drivers only rather than finding the missing drivers.
I tried it on my own laptop for my missing two drivers Fingerprint and Bluetooth and it couldn't provide any!
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What is the best solutions for finding and downloading the proper dirver for a laptop?
What is the best solutions for finding and downloading the proper dirver for a laptop?
Now days most laptops are coming with Windows Vista drivers only. and even if we brawase the manufacturer web site such like HP, or DELL we only see Vista Drivers.
However if we look some where and do some googling we might find some or all of them but it really takes time.
Is there a solution to find XP drivers for x laptop within an our lets say!
As an example, let's start with my laptop DELL STUDIO 1535, all drivers that came with the laptop are for Vista. But it took me more than two weeks find some of the drivers for XP. Now I have all the drivers except Bluetooth and FingerPrint Driver! AND STILL LOOKING FOR THEM...
[My main concern is: I am running a small shop for computer services, and therefore I do need this solution ASAP.]
thanks,
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The best way: walk through and find the drivers from the manufacturers...
1. Right Click on My Computer, Left click on Manage.
2.Click on Device Manager, you should notice on the right hand side iconswith a yellow symbol next to them, this shows the device is unknown, ordrivers are not installed.
3. Right click a device you are looking for, left click on properties.
4. Click on the Details tab on the top of the menu that popped up.
5. You should see some code in the middle that looks similar to this:
"PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_169C&SUB
The important peices are:
VEN_14E4 is Vendor 14E4
DEV_169C is Device 169C for Vendor 14E4
You can take this information to the website http://www.pcidatabase.com
*Once you are in the Vendor and are searching for the Device you can hold CTRL and press 'F'.
-This is the Find feature, type in the Device ID and it will find it much quicker, since some pages are quite long.
Hope this helps!
I work for a small business that does a lot of downgrading (people go out and buy Vista from the store and are unhappy). I use the above script and it usually works great - if it is downgradeable.
Another thing to try is to google downgrade laptop model. Sometimes you will find people that have done it and have all the drivers in one location!
Hope this helps!
vendor 08ff device 2810 - Authentec FingerPrint Reader
vendor 0886 device 283E - United Microelectronics (UMC) - 82801H ICH8 Family SMBus Controller
Here is a link to a site for the drivers:
http://www.getpcme
For the future my script works fairly well, but, as in this case not perfect. One thing that works occasionally is Googleing "%Computer Model% Downgrade" You get lucky sometimes. And there is always IT's driveragent.com (Which if you are in small business is a good investment!)
Hope this helps! Let us know if the site I gave doesn't get them all!
Sorry, didn't realize my previous post were broken links!
Bluetooth - Try this (it is your model of Bluetooth Card on a different Dell):
http://drivers.softp
Try the infared download for the missing ACPI device (ACPI is hard to figure out, this could work for you):
http://www.laptops-dr
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I found out that this should work for your Fingerprint Reader:
"Fingerprint scanner Authentec AES2810 driver can be used with the drivers of a Lenovo Thinkpad T500"
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/
Hope this helps!
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by: i_tPosted on 2009-03-14 at 09:10:48ID: 23887513
I use driveragent.com whenever I wipe and reload a box. It does a scan of your hardware and gives you links right to a download. You need to have the network driver before-hand, but it will usually find the rest. It isn't free but if you do computer repair it's probably worth it.