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Thread #97465 Message #1917707
Posted By: Richard Bridge
23-Dec-06 - 05:12 PM
Thread Name: Tech: TV Card Drivers
Subject: TV Card Drivers
I'm trying to reconfigure a PC for my daughter, and mostly all seems OK. But there is one problem.
Her old PC had a TV card. The old PC motherboard has died bigtime. The old PC was made by the now defunct Tiny - who supplied dedicated, integrated, program discs. The Tiny discs are notorious for not running with any other computer. You do not get a separate disc for each program. You get one integrated disc or a set of discs that have to be run consecutively. That computer ran 98SE. And Rachel has left the driver discs in Nottingham and I'm in Kent.
Anyway, I've put the old TV card (and some other bits, including the hard drive from the old computer 'cos it had all her music on it, but now set, of course, as slave) into the new computer (also, by chance, a Tiny) that was working fine and does not need a restore or anything.
The new computer runs XP. It can't find the drivers for the TV card, although they must be on the old hard disc that is now in the new PC and recognised. This might be because the old drivers would have been 98SE drivers, not XP drivers (or it might be because the old TV card won't talk to XP at all).
I could not find a makers name or model on the TV card. So I now cannot readily search the internet for drivers for the TV card.
I'm sure there used to be a program, with a silly name, something like (but not very like) "Beth's cool stuff" that would accurately identify all the hardware on your PC - precisely so that you could go and find the drivers for it and so on.
Anyone got any ideas how to identify that dratted TV card so I can go to hunt for the drivers?