Mother board drivers

[djd_201]

How hard is it to get drivers for proprietary boards such as Compaq, Dell and Gateway, etc.

These drivers are on the company's indivial install disks but I am not familiar with the availability elsewhere. I realize these boards are made by other companies other than the computer brand so....I am asking because I am looking at some replacement boards on Ebay and wish to know where to look for such drivers....thanks in advance

[Midknyte]

Normally you would search by the hardware vendor themselves first. If it's a VIA chipset board, the to go the VIA site and get the 4in1 drivers. If it's an intel board, go to intel's site. etc etc.

a lot of onboard sound are realtek chips now.

use unknown device identifier to figure out what's what.

Tech Tools (http://www.sysopt.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=173743)