Updating motherboard chipset drivers

I've used google, but I am receiving very confusing results, and the manufacturer websites aren't helping. I am currently trying to update the chipset drivers on my motherboard, I have an ASUS K8S-LA motherboard that came with my HP Compaq Presario Sr1010Z, and ASUS's or HP's website didn't help me at all with updating the drivers. I found this link:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&docname=c00257657
that helped me with identifying components, but I can't seem to find the drivers on ASUS's website. I also tried SIS's website but it didn't seem to have what I was looking for. It says I have SIS760 and SIS964 for north and south bridge chipsets. A google search for those two only brings me to third party websites.

Can anyone help me find the proper drivers? Also, does it need 2 separate downloads, one for each chipset?

 

This seems to be the latest available for HP SiS chipset drivers, dated September 2005 -
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=pv-35826-1&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en

 

I get a message saying "The original drivers are stored in the C:\HP\Drivers\chipset folder. Please install through device manager"

 

To install through the Device Manager:

• Click Start > Run (or Windows key + r) and enter devmgmt.msc into the Run box - click OK and you'll be at the Device Manager.

• Click the + (plus) sign next to Other devices or System devices.

• Right-click on SM Bus Controller or the device you want to update, and then select Update Driver.

• The Hardware Update Wizard should now open.

• From the radio buttons, select 'No, not this time', click Next.

• Select 'Install from a list or specific location', click Next.

• Put a checkmark in 'Include this location in the search' and paste in
  C:\HP\Drivers\Chipset\chipset_sis_agp or browse to the chipset_sis_agp folder.

Click Next and the new driver, if suitable, will install.

 

I don't see an SM bus controller in there or anything that sounds like a chipset.

I've attached a JPEG screenshot of my expanded 'system devices', that also includes an unknown device that I'm not too worried about, but I'm not sure if it may be a problem.

I'll try and find out what that unknown device is in the meantime while I'm waiting.

Edit: I'm using XP in case that helps any.

 

After checking the contents of that installer, it seems the only drivers it has are for your SiS Accelerated Graphics Port.
I'll have another look later, but at present I can't seem to locate anything other than those, that would suit your PC.

Hopefully someone else with a similar/same model HP will chime in.

 

Hi,
depending on what OS you are running use the relevent tool to give me your system information....

1.) Win9x/ME/XP....

Run everest ..... http://majorgeeks.com/download4181.html

Click Report (top menu) > Report Wizard > Next
Choose System Summary Only > Next
Choose Plain Text > Finish and wait for report to generate
Click Save to File and leave the File Name as Report, then click the Save as Type dropdown and choose Report files (*txt) and click Save (n.b. Save to desktop is best as easy place to find it, use Browse to locate desktop)

Add the report in your next post like this.....

http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=86880

2.) Vista/Win 7....

Download the free, Speccy http://majorgeeks.com/Speccy_d6358.html then run Speccy and click File > Save as Text File, then attach the log as per instructions below (note: as Speccy also now lists more data it likely will have your Windows licence serial key also in the log, so look for Operating System and under that Serial Number and delete the code and Save the log)

Then attach your log to your next post as per these instructions http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=86880

This will help me get the correct chipset driver for your system.

 

Okay done

 

Hi,
Try this driver here....

http://drivers.softpedia.com/dyn-postdownload.php?p=6065&t=0&i=1

if this does not work please let me know which country you are from and the exact model of your HP machine as it is written on your machine.
I searched the SiS website and they dont do OEM chipset drivers just the individual ones for your gpu/audio/lan and sata/raid drivers

 

I think the download servers for that link might be down. It'll load the page, but then firefox will get a 'problem loading page' error.

 

Scratch that download.... here is the original chipset for your system...

http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp26001-26500/sp26362.exe

 

Here is the Driver page for your system for future referance....

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...=en&cc=us&dlc=en&sw_lang=&product=441650#N208

 

Great... I received a lot of "The file xx already exists, do you want to overwrite it?". I pressed Yes then eventually Yes to All after pressing Yes several times, then I was again prompted with "The original drivers are stored in the C:\HP\Drivers\chipset folder. Please install through device manager".

How do I even know if there are updates in the first place? I'm thinking if that was the only download, then there might not be a newer version, in which case, does uninstalling and reinstalling have any effect?

 

If you system is running as it should be then it is best to leave driver updates alone ... unless it is a released version that is directly linked to an issue that you are having ... as your system is telling you it has already got the driver for the chipset and does not want to install the one that you are trying to install tells me that you already have a recent version and your system is stable, are there any yellow ! in your device manager? if so let me know.

 

Yes I have one in other devices, the picture of it is in the 5th post

 

Ok... Sorry I missed that :-o, please take a look here ....

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-find-unknown-device-drivers-by-their-vendor-device-id/

this explains how to remedy the "unknown Device" driver error, very simple to follow.

 

Thanks, it was just a remnant left over from Super AntiSpyware, which I got rid of using the proper uninstaller.

It's not exactly running perfectly, but I'll just take my problems to another thread if necessary. I was suggested by a website to update or install my chipset drivers to fix an issue with sound and other problems, which is why I asked.

Thanks for your help.

 

Hi,
I am pleased that you remedied they yellow! in your device manager.

I hope you haven't took me the wrong way in my #14 post??? I am more than willing to help you try to solve any issues you are having with your PC .
You say that you were pointed to re-installing your chipset driver to resolve some issues on your PC... can you explain to me(as best that you can) as to what issues you are experiencing, you mentioned that audio was one?? have you got audio?? or is it a problem with playback??

 

The problem is a little difficult to explain, but I'll do my best. At random times, maybe once every 2 weeks, but it used to be almost daily, I'll lose my sound. The loss of sound is accompanied by extremely slow startups, inability to uninstall drivers, and I can't shut down through windows or it'll get stuck at the 'Windows is shutting down..." blue screen. I can manage to fix the sound with great difficulty, but it can take hours sometimes, and it gets very annoying and tiresome. I've found that keeping my DVD drive unplugged greatly helps in fixing it, for some reason.

I can't always uninstall my sound drivers when this happens, because when I do, it'll freeze indefinitely. Sometime I can do it through safe mode, and sometime when I do it, it'll reinstall but isn't configured properly, so it doesn't work. I can't configure or update it because windows never finds a better match. And sometimes, it just fixes itself overnight somehow.

It started maybe 6 months ago but I've had immense trouble in finding a solution and plus it doesn't happen too often now, so I'm not extremely worried, but a fix would be great. (Also, don't suggest I have malware, I've done the cleaning twice, on here and on a different site)

 

Also, forgot to add, the sound loss is a 'no audio device' in control panel kind, but my drivers are still installed and seem to be functioning properly. No lag or any forewarning of any kind accompanies this, about a week ago I got up to eat dinner, and when I came back, my sound didn't work.