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Save hardware drivers
Just re-installed Vista and it needed couple drivers - 1 for my Radeon 1650
SE video card and one for my M/Soft digital media 3000 keyboard I'm bit concerned about these drivers becoming obsolete (particularly the former) so I was wondering whether it's possible to save the drivers now for future install - the driver details document all the driver files & locations but not sure how to re-install - just drop them in the right folder? It seems impossible to just download driver nowadays - it's either direct install only or part of 200,million gigabyte software install which i dont want on my machine |
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Save hardware drivers
Chris K wrote:
Just re-installed Vista and it needed couple drivers - 1 for my Radeon 1650 SE video card and one for my M/Soft digital media 3000 keyboard I'm bit concerned about these drivers becoming obsolete (particularly the former) so I was wondering whether it's possible to save the drivers now for future install - the driver details document all the driver files & locations but not sure how to re-install - just drop them in the right folder? It seems impossible to just download driver nowadays - it's either direct install only or part of 200,million gigabyte software install which i dont want on my machine If the drivers become obsolete - it's time to move on - really. Since you can still download Windows 98 drivers from many manufacturer's web pages. Or is that the real issue here - you are not going to the manufacturer's web page for each hardware device to download the proper and latest drivers for your hardware? Did you visit he http://support.amd.com/us/Pages/drivers.aspx ... for the ATI video card drivers? If so - did you then click on: http://support.amd.com/us/psearch/Pa...oad %20Detail ("All Graphics - Desktop")?? Then select your video card and OS combination using the pull-down menus? I would greatly suspect that through 2014+ - you will be able to do this. However - if you had done this - then you would have saved the file relevant to your OS already and known that once you saved that file - you had to run it to install it. So - logic says that if you save the downloaded file to some external media - you can keep it for as long as the media can be read/used. -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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Save hardware drivers
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entire conversation - archived indefinitely http://groups.google.com/group/micro...c3fff77a876b5/ /entire conversation - archived indefinitely Chris K wrote: Actually meant save a driver that's already installed Nope - when Vista first installed it used generic driver (screen was crap) - i used "update driver" and after crawling the web for quite long time it downloaded the correct driver - albeit 2 years old As per your link - aint happening - i think the card is just too old and not supported beyond 2008 - but it works fine - would be nice to save it while I've got a driver *at all* You didn't actually download/install the driver - Windows Vista found one in the Microsoft Updates database and installed it - probably a few versions behind the latest, so may not be as high-performing/as stable. So no - you cannot save that - and you probably would be better off replacing it from the actual manufacturer's web page (for the video card anyway - maybe they keep their own hardware drivers up to date in Microsoft updates... Maybe...) So, yeah - maybe _you_ cannot get the driver via the link I gave (yet - I am about to teach you how), but as for it "not happening"; here is the download links for the 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Vista drivers for your video card as you listed gotten to via the link I gave you earlier: 32-bit Windows Vista: http://tinyurl.com/2uqtqts (just get the "WDM Integrated Driver" - unless you have some need for the full Catalyst software suite...) .... and for the 64-bit Windows Vista: http://tinyurl.com/28md5ox (just get the "WDM Integrated Driver" - unless you have some need for the full Catalyst software suite...) Why the tinyurl versions of the links? The longer URLs even included spaces - makes them more difficult to post, sometimes other newsreaders will cut them off, etc; but it makes some feel better, so... 32-bit Windows Vista Drivers for your ATI Radeon X1650 Series: http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownloa...-Bit%20Edition 64-bit Windows Vista Drivers for your ATI Radeon X1650 Series: http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownloa...-Bit%20Edition See what I mean? Now you can save them. The 64-bit version is dated 2/23ish/2010 and the 32-bit version is dated the same. Although they are end-of-life products - the cances of AMD (who aquired ATI) getting them off their web pages until Windows Vista is no longer supported by Microsoft is slim. AMD does say they will not be producing Windows 7 drivers for them though. I'll walk you through it so you might learn something from all this and use it to get other drivers in the future. I gave you this link first: http://support.amd.com/us/Pages/drivers.aspx Under the "Graphics - Desktop" heading, the last in that list is "All Graphics - Desktop" and you click on that which takes you he http://support.amd.com/us/psearch/Pa...oad %20Detail There you select "Graphics Cards - Desktop", "Radeon X1650 series" and choose an operating system ("Windows Vista - 32-bit Edition" or "Windows Vista - 64-bit Edition" in your case, given what you have.) and click on "View Results". That will reload the web page with the appropriate link (see above) and I think (hope) you can get to it from there. You said you had the Radeon 1650 SE video card and M/Soft digital media 3000 keyboard... Let's round that off with the other driver you could not find so far for individual download... Visiting he http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/ Gets me to he http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/do...px?category=MK Where I select "Keyboard", "Digital Media Keyboard 3000", "Windows Vista (32-bit only)", "English (US)" and click on "Go". It takes me to a link that has THIS link: http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...7.10.344.0.exe Which is "IntelliType Pro 7.1 32-bit for Windows Vista"... If I change it up a bit and on the "Gets me to here" page I select "Keyboard", "Digital Media Keyboard 3000", "Windows Vista (64-bit only)", "English (US)" and click on "Go" - that takes me to a page with this link: http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...7.10.344.0.exe Which is the "IntelliType Pro 7.1 64-bit for Windows Vista"... Come back - let everyone know if that helped. As you can see from the first part of this response - the conversation will be here long after the last posting. It might be good if someone came across it and got the help they needed from it - but they might trust it more if you came back at the end and said if it worked for you or not... -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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Save hardware drivers
I found drivers for the ati 1650 for xp vista and windows 7 32 and 64bit in
about 5 seconds http://driverscollection.com/?H=Radeon%20X1650&By=ATI "Chris K" wrote in message news:w_b7o.60253$bo3.32087@hurricane... Just re-installed Vista and it needed couple drivers - 1 for my Radeon 1650 SE video card and one for my M/Soft digital media 3000 keyboard I'm bit concerned about these drivers becoming obsolete (particularly the former) so I was wondering whether it's possible to save the drivers now for future install - the driver details document all the driver files & locations but not sure how to re-install - just drop them in the right folder? It seems impossible to just download driver nowadays - it's either direct install only or part of 200,million gigabyte software install which i dont want on my machine |
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Save hardware drivers
"Shenan Stanley" wrote in message ... snipped entire conversation - archived indefinitely http://groups.google.com/group/micro...c3fff77a876b5/ /entire conversation - archived indefinitely but as for it "not happening"; here is the download links for the 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Vista drivers for your video card as you listed gotten to via the link I gave you earlier: 32-bit Windows Vista: http://tinyurl.com/2uqtqts (just get the "WDM Integrated Driver" - unless you have some need for the full Catalyst software suite...) that's the bloatware i've just installed from previous post (cut down WDM Integrated Drive) & uninstalled it's not a driver at all - it's some sort generic download manager - uses acres space, but does not (did not) update my video driver - in fact it makes no mention of drivers at all - no executable file once installed - presumably just runs in the background consuming processing time until it feels like downloading some virus or uploading my bank details - i just want the driver (no software) - but as already said - 99% of drivers now come 'wrapped up' in load software and this is no exception - well except that it didn't even have a driver in it at all whereas most the crap i download at least come with the driver i want |
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Save hardware drivers
"Chris K" wrote in message news:EAz7o.39484$7Z3.39184@hurricane... "Shenan Stanley" wrote in message ... snipped entire conversation - archived indefinitely http://groups.google.com/group/micro...c3fff77a876b5/ /entire conversation - archived indefinitely but as for it "not happening"; here is the download links for the 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Vista drivers for your video card as you listed gotten to via the link I gave you earlier: 32-bit Windows Vista: http://tinyurl.com/2uqtqts (just get the "WDM Integrated Driver" - unless you have some need for the full Catalyst software suite...) that's the bloatware i've just installed from previous post (cut down WDM Integrated Drive) & uninstalled it's not a driver at all - it's some sort generic download manager - uses acres space, but does not (did not) update my video driver - in fact it makes no mention of drivers at all - no executable file once installed - presumably just runs in the background consuming processing time until it feels like downloading some virus or uploading my bank details - i just want the driver (no software) - but as already said - 99% of drivers now come 'wrapped up' in load software and this is no exception - well except that it didn't even have a driver in it at all whereas most the crap i download at least come with the driver i want Not meaning to step on anyone's toes but... I put "Save Installed Drivers for Vista 64" into a google search (remember our friend?) and the 1st hit was BooZet Freeware | Double Driver - backup and restore installed drivers http://www.boozet.org/dd.htm Isn't that what you're looking for? |
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Save hardware drivers
Chris K wrote:
that's the bloatware i've just installed from previous post (cut down WDM Integrated Drive) & uninstalled it's not a driver at all - it's some sort generic download manager - uses acres space, but does not (did not) update my video driver - in fact it makes no mention of drivers at all - no executable file once installed - presumably just runs in the background consuming processing time until it feels like downloading some virus or uploading my bank details - i just want the driver (no software) - but as already said - 99% of drivers now come 'wrapped up' in load software and this is no exception - well except that it didn't even have a driver in it at all whereas most the crap i download at least come with the driver i want So get the Catalyst driver and be selective about your installation instead of accepting the defaults. Description: Package Includes: Display Driver Catalyst Control Center But that is the driver for your system. If you don't like the way it gets packaged - take it up with ATI (whom I would not recommend for much) and/or download the driver and package and rip what you want out of it/custom install it. -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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Save hardware drivers
"Shenan Stanley" wrote in message ... Chris K wrote: that's the bloatware i've just installed from previous post (cut down WDM Integrated Drive) & uninstalled it's not a driver at all - it's some sort generic download manager - uses acres space, but does not (did not) update my video driver - in fact it makes no mention of drivers at all - no executable file once installed - presumably just runs in the background consuming processing time until it feels like downloading some virus or uploading my bank details - i just want the driver (no software) - but as already said - 99% of drivers now come 'wrapped up' in load software and this is no exception - well except that it didn't even have a driver in it at all whereas most the crap i download at least come with the driver i want So get the Catalyst driver and be selective about your installation instead of accepting the defaults. Description: Package Includes: Display Driver Catalyst Control Center But that is the driver for your system. If you don't like the way it gets packaged - take it up with ATI (whom I would not recommend for much) and/or download the driver and package and rip what you want out of it/custom install it. Tried all install options, neither update my video driver - was hoping it would eventually update my video driver so i can uninstall it afterwards - not blaming you, just explaining that 'just' downloading a driver is no longer possible - every/all drivers are now accompanied by lot software they know you dont want - this was rather an exception in that it didn't even include a driver which brings me nicely back to my title/opening question - can you save hardware drivers that are already installed - short answer is yes they can be saved but can they be reinstalled - that i will continue to persue |
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"GSalisbury" wrote in message ... Not meaning to step on anyone's toes but... I put "Save Installed Drivers for Vista 64" into a google search (remember our friend?) and the 1st hit was BooZet Freeware | Double Driver - backup and restore installed drivers http://www.boozet.org/dd.htm Isn't that what you're looking for? I've looked it over - I can already save driver components (they're listed in driver details) but I'm not sure if/how these can be re-installed - and booznet dont seem to mention this either = dont think it will do anything i cant do without it but thanks any how |
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