A gripe / driver question

[Szech]

Lucky me. Some guy pretending to be a network information guy went to my boss and "installed" a network. Turns out the guy went into my boss' computer, stole inventory sheets and contact information, and rendered the computer useless. Long story short, it's my job as a computer resources guy to fix it. I cleared the BIOS, and reformatted the hard drive (just in case anything was on there that shouldn't have been), but now I can't find the driver for the sound card (asound 3D-PNP). Where do you find the hard-to-find drivers? This really gets me, that someone would have the nerve to do something like that.

[Jal]

Not sure if this is what you are looking for.

Good luck!!
http://www.leadman.com.tw/support.HTM

[OuTpaTienT]

Whoa. That is pretty bold. I've dealt with "consultants" that were completely inept, but never we they just downright con-artists.

Here's some sites for finding drivers:

http://www.drivershq.com/mainhome.html
http://www.driverzone.com/
http://webhome.idirect.com/~cati/
http://www.mrdriver.com/
http://www.driverguide.com/

[U-96]

also, I advise you shoot your boss. It's the kindest thing to do in this instance. Whether (s)he was suckered or (more realistically) f***ed up the PC themselves and is too embarrassed to tell you is irrelevant. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif

also try www.windrivers.com (http://www.windrivers.com)

good luck!

U-96

[Szech]

Cool, thanks for the sites http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif As for what happened, I'm not sure. Some guy did in fact work on the network, and he was paid $150 for it (even though the network wasn't working when he was done). So he might have gotten away with being paid to steal information. Then again, I did build that computer, and I did notice that a zip drive magically installed itself (improperly) in the time since it left my apartment... Oh well, whatever, no sense worrying about it. It's a really cool job, and my boss and supervisor are cool (even if they don't know $#!+ about computers).