re: Missing Device Drivers, & ID-ing the hardware
Friday, June 24, 2005 at 9:45 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Kiwi
(2111 messages posted)
No guarantees with the battery replacement, but that may offer a ray of hope, anyway.
The name brand PC manufacturers may be less generous about making their CD's available
than is the case with White Box system sellers, but they do have tons of their driver
files archived on their web sites for download, once you identify the various items
involved. Everest is still free for home users, and priced quite reasonably for
commercial users.
It is quite good at identifying hardware. Another service of similar function is
Belarc, but it's not a stand-alone. It wants an active internet connection.
Sound cards have been around a very long time, and the various Windows incarnations
have included Sound Blaster and SB-Compatible drivers all the way back to W95 (and
in fact the original Sound Blaster started out as an "Ad Lib Compatible" audio processor).
The integrated sound functions have even better coverage in the OS's (most modern
motherboards used in the upgrade market have sound chips built into them).
Generally speaking, private individuals aren't the ones to worry about when publicly
displaying a personal eMail address. There are literally "millions" (no kidding)
of robotic software tools called "Spiders" crawling through the nooks and crannies
of the internet, collecting eMail addresses for Spammers. Inserting a "nospam"
text block in any part of your eMail address thwarts the Spiders.
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Kiwi
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On Friday, June 24, 2005 at 8:22 am, Cherie Clark wrote:
>Hello, Kiwi!
>
>Thank you so much for the input! I will replace the battery right away. And you
are
>right, posting an email address probably wasn't a bright idea.
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