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. 

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


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!