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drivers scanner and reinstalling missing drivers in windows

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by nyangod 1 view

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Hi
i am staying in an environment where there is no internet,so i find it so difficult cleaning the hard drives of the computers we use in our small local school.Even to reinstall missing drivers is a problem,in search of solution i have to go to town where there is internet connection once in a while to look for solutions,its so difficult because i cannot always carry the pcs to scan and solve the problems on the internet.I am pleading on any it professional on Techrepublic to help me with any software application that i can download to solve the problems we are facing.We need solutions to scan install drivers.
my email address is
nyangod@yahoo.fr i will welcome any posting.
thanks

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by snuffy09

of the PCs then "go to town" find the drivers for these models online and Burn a cd of each models drivers.

I know that DELL is really user firendly when it comes to drivers for your workstation. Just plug in the Service tag # and you will get a list of all drivers that came with your PC.

by thechas

I always start by taking a detailed hardware inventory of any system I need to support.

Then, I download and STORE the drivers I need.

Start with the chip-set drivers for the motherboards. You may need several versions of the Intel chip-set INF installer to cover different chip-sets and versions of Windows. Same for VIA and nVidia.

Then, look at your video cards and determine if they are ATI, nVidia or another manufactures chip and download the assorted drivers you need.

You can do the same for network and sound cards.

Get a pair of large portable hard drives and store your drivers in organized folders. Use one drive as your backup and the other to install drivers from.

To help with your driver inventory, check out the utilities that Craig Hart has posted.

http://members.datafast.net.au/dft0802/

I have a number of family members with dial-up connections that I support. I download and save Windows updates, drivers and utilities that I then burn to CD or store on a drive and install on their computers. I also have every driver CD for every piece of hardware that I have or support.

Chas

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