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I have a ECS motherboard 945P-M3 but cant find the drivers for it. I was wondering if anyone can help? Running an Intel P D820. Thansk
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I believe this model was made for an OEM as it's not on the ECS site. Did this come out of a Brand Name PC, if so what model?
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I am runnng XP Pro on the Machine the Model is MT1700 Philips freevents.
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Thanks for all your HELP another PC world speacial!
We may still be able to find the proper drivers with a little more work.
Go to the device manager
Click START-->RUN and type devmgmt.msc in the box and click OK

Once in device manager, look for the components with yellow triangles beside them. Open them up by double clicking them and in the properties, click on the details tab. This will show you a string of numbers and letters. What we are interested in is the four numbers after the VEN_xxxx & DEV_xxxx( x's are signifying the numbers I'm looking for.)
Post these back here and we'll see what we can do.
Thansk for your help the one I really want is the NIC: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV__108C&SUBSYS_1B761019&REV_03\4&b41B41B794
By the way it's an Intel® 82573E Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Any others you need?
Can you tell me how you worked that out? It would be good to know for one and the other thing is that I dont wwant to trouble you with all the other 20 or so.
Sure,
go to this page http://www.pcidatabase.com/
Input the four numbers found after the DEV in the device search box.
It will return the device identification.
Then you go to the manufacturers support page and search for drivers.
I don't mind helping.
Sometimes you'll get multiple devices from the device search, but just look for those four numbers in the list, and they may look like 0x108c instead of 108C
Okay here we go:
Audio Device
10EC
Multi Media
8801
Multi Media
8802
Multi Media Video controller:
8800
Nic Controller
0301
PCI Device
108E
PCI Serial Posrt
108F
SM BUS;
8086
Video Controller
7166
Video Contoller 7146

Thats the lot, thansk for your Help
I think the first thing to do is to install the Intel Chipset driver and see if that shakes out some of the yellow marks in the device manager
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&ProductID=2115&DwnldID=16023&strOSs=44&OSFullName=Windows*%20XP%20Professional&lang=eng

Then install the video driver
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&ProductID=2115&DwnldID=16835&strOSs=44&OSFullName=Windows*%20XP%20Professional&lang=eng

Once that is done send me the ones that are still yellow.
Okay I think you have given your best in the above two, I am trying this now and will let you know the outcome. can you tell me how you came about the above two lnk as I want to understand your resolution teqnique if you dont mind.
Well Intel has chipset wide drivers, ie; 900 series. The board has a 945p designation so the appropriate chipset driver was easy. This also leads to the graphics driver as they are interconnected with the chipset.
There is usually a sequence to installing drivers, first Chipset, then graphics, and then the rest.
I have done the above, all I have two left is the PCI Device 108E and PCI serial port 108F, Thansk for your help
Any luck?