Can't find drivers for a Compaq desktop

[Auryg]

The topic pretty much says it all, my friend's compaq sr1403wm's HD died so I plopped a new one in there, but I can't find the sound and video drivers. Compaq's website is absolutely no help. The sound and video are integrated.

Can anyone help? Thanks.

 

[mechBgon]

It appears to have an SiS 760/964 chipset and SiS Mirage2 onboard video. Here's HP/Compaq's spec page for it.

So you want to

1) install Service Pack 2 for WinXP. Do this from offline using a CD or USB drive (link to full SP2 download), or from behind a firewall, don't just go flyin' out onto the Internet with it in SP1 condition unless it's got firewall protection. This also gets you USB 2.0 support and DirectX 9.0C.

2) download and install the SiS AGP, SATA and IDE drivers from here. Reboot as needed. Do these before the actual video driver.

3) download and install the SiS Mirage2 video drivers from the same site (IGP Graphics Driver, SiS760 Series version). Reboot.

4) download and install the Realtek audio drivers from here (the Download Now button at bottom). Different model, but that should work anyway.


Hope that helps

 

[Auryg]

Thanks. They all worked other than the audio driver. The audio driver is telling me I need to be logged in as an Admin even though I am (and I even created a second account with admin privileges to be sure)...Any ideas?

 

[Slowlearner]

Restart in the safe mode and you should see an account named "administrator" - and unless you have earlier created an account named administrator with a password - this will have a blank password, log in and install

 

[mechBgon]

You might also try just running the system through Windows Update (well, you probably were planning to anyway) and see if Microsoft has an audio driver for that.

 

[Auryg]

Originally posted by: mechBgon
You might also try just running the system through Windows Update (well, you probably were planning to anyway) and see if Microsoft has an audio driver for that.

I have, and I'm having some serious problems getting in to safe mode. I usually just hold ctrl while booting to get to it, but that's not working..also tried jamming on all the F keys (as I don't remember which one it is), and that didn't work either.

 

[Slowlearner]

Pressing F8 key immediately after POST takes you to Safe mode

 

[Auryg]

Still wont even install in safe mode.
Arghh.