I recently came into possession of a used HP, slim-ish style pc.  So far things have gone well enough getting it up and running, XP installed drives work fine, Optical drive is ok.  But several drivers didn't load, onboard vga and onboard DVI video, onboard sound, SM Bus, drivers for both the onboard Gigabit Ethernet and a PCI gigabit ethernet, to name a few.  I think I have the SM Bus and vga video drivers semi sussed out.  Question one, will the Catalyst drivers make the DVI run as well?  How can I find out what sound card is onboard? 

Specs of the pc: AMD 64 3000+ cpu, I forget the name of the cpu, @ 1.8GHZ
512mb PC3200 DDR 400 ram (of which I am looking for more, if anyone has any for a decent price I may be interested depending on price and shipping costs)
twin 80gb SATA drives, unsure if it is SATA or SATA2, is there a way to check which it is? 
dvd-r/cdrw combo optical drive
onboard 64mb ati r200 series radeon video (exact model unknown)
Intel HaM 56k modem (hooked this into it today, actually had to cut pieces off the bracket to get it to fit, as it is for a full tower pc)

The best way to identify a device is by inspecting its vendor ID and device ID. You can use any tool that lists device IDs (for example, the LSPCI command in some Linux Live CDs), and then search for those IDs in PCI device ID databases. Alternatively you can also use a tool that comes with its own device ID files (SiSoft Sandra, AIDA32/Everest/Aida64, SIV, SIW and others). Here are some useful links:

http://www.pcidatabase.com/
PCI device ID database with some PCI device listing tools.

http://pciids.sourceforge.net/
PCI ID repository with a vendor ID and device ID database.

http://rh-software.com/
System Information Viewer that shows TONS of useful info.

http://www.gtopala.com/
System Information for Windows with friendlier UI than SIV.

Ok, some further info about the pc: The Motherboard is an MSI 09AC with an ATI RS482 chipset. 

The cpu is an socket 939 AMD Athlon 64 3000+ code name: Venice 1.8ghz
The bios is Pheonix Thechnologies 1.18, dated 08/01/06  Any way to get than updated? 

Question: I downloaded the Catalyst drvers, but they did't work cause there is no video drive rloaded other than this cruddy VgaSafe thing.  it reccomneded loading a standard video driver, but I can't seem to rmember how to get to those drivers.  No matter what I try it always gives me ATI drivers only.  Where can I find this driver?

thx wil do. 

edit:  Can someone remind me how to get to install the standard video drivers in XP?  I;ve tried the one method I could think of, installing a new device, and the standard video drivers weren't there to choose from.

bucksavage wrote on 12.06.11 at 21:07:28:

remember,you will need the legacy catalyst for that: http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Legacy/Pages/integrated_mce-xp.asp...

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx

If you can install the network card drivers and get it online, go to Windows update (select the custom option) and see if it'll find it. With XP, I've had luck doing it that way with Intel cards along with older Nvidia cards when working on other systems for people. It's something you'll have to do anyway and it might find some of the other drivers for you like the on board sound.