Guys,
My motherboard recently died and I was able to buy a new Biostar NF4ST-A9 mobo to suit my 939 format AMD 4800+ X2 processor.
Anyway, I've installed the board and installed the mobo drivers from the webpage
http://www.biostar-usa.com/mbdetails.asp?model=NF4ST-A9 but was having issues with my ethernet connection. This was because WinXP was thinking that the original port was available but since it couldn't find it on the new board, it had hidden it. (that's the message WinXP gave me when I tried to assign the original IP address of 192.168.1.1 to it).
Basically the system tray showed it constantly finding a connection and losing it, so I bit the bullet and slipstreamed WinXP SP3 into my WinXP SP2 CD and reinstalled the OS after doing a quick format of the drive. (all my user files were on another drive so this was rather painless).
Enough of the background. The reason for my post was to ask a couple of questions in regards to updating drivers.
The mobo's driver page at
http://www.biostar-usa.com/mbdownloads.asp?model=NF4ST-A9 has the nVidia nForce4 drivers dated from 2005 as is the Realtek audio drivers.
I went to the nVidia website at
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us and selected the following:
Product Type: nForce
Product Series: nForce 4 Series
Now I assume for the "Product" pull down list I should select "nForce AMD" or "nForce Ultra AMD" but which one? I've eliminated the SLI for AMD since I've only got a since x16 PCI-e slot.
As for the Realtek ALC850_510 driver, I should use either the exe or zip download for WinXP from this page
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PN...14&
I am just double-checking as to me a codec is different to a driver, and the above page talks about codecs.
As for my other drivers, I've installed the AMD processor drivers and I'm still getting the system locking up and/or suddenly losing the connection to the network/internet which is why I'm writing this on my Ubuntu box.
Since it's a "pristine" system, I just wanted to make sure I install the correct drivers rather than install the wrong ones, try to uninstall them etc and leave a mess. Measure twice - cut once.
Any help, suggestions etc welcome.
Thanks
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