I have a secondhand PC, that I am looking to donate to a friend but the video drivers don't work...well...sorta.  XP loads the VGASafe driver which is ok, but it extremely limited.  I don't have any of the driver discs or anything so I can't tell at all what brand the on-board Video, other than the only marking on the mainboard ATI IXP 400, so I assumed it it an ATI. 

Problem is, I used PCI Tree to view the components in the PC and there is no name, no brand, no thing to tell me what model, make, or version the on-board video is. 

Is there a way to determine what it really is so I can update to drivers for the video that aren't handicapped and mostly useless? 

Also, it has the same issue with the on-board gigabit Ethernet.  Same deal entirely. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xpress_200

Quote:

Radeon Xpress 200 ... The integrated graphics are based on the ATI Radeon X300 GPU with full OpenGL 2.0 and DirectX 9.0 support

Quote:

The Radeon Xpress 200 (RS480) chipset can make use of different southbridges, one of them is the SB400 (IXP 400),

Thus what you need are the drivers for the Xpress 200 chipset from AMD's website.

Btw, I found this by googling ati ixp 400, it was the second result.

NitroX infinity wrote on 03.03.12 at 11:44:21:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xpress_200 Quote: Radeon Xpress 200 ... The integrated graphics are based on the ATI Radeon X300 GPU with full OpenGL 2.0 and DirectX 9.0 support [quote]The Radeon Xpress 200 (RS480) chipset can make use of different southbridges, one of them is the SB400 (IXP 400),

Thus what you need are the drivers for the Xpress 200 chipset from AMD's website.

Btw, I found this by googling ati ixp 400, it was the second result.[/quote]

Hmmm you;d think I thought of that wouldn't you?  lol oh well.  I could have sworn I had tried that driver before but maybe not...can't remember.  Will try that next time I work on the PC.   Thx!