however my pc is just so slow on the internet. It takes minutes to open up a page and transfer between tabs. And if I write its always trying to catch up with me. I have another pc on my network which is working fine. Can anyone help?
Hmm, ok. Lets have a better look on what it is going on.
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Remove the existing driver first, by right-clicking your graphic card in device-manager and choose remove driver.
reboot and answer no to let windows install a driver.
Now install the ATI driver from the above link.
Need some more info regarding the others or you could try update them via the device-manager.
In device manager you need to locate the entries for your NIC and the game controllers.
Right-click those and choose update. Alternatively, choose remove driver and reboot. Let windows install.
If you can't locate or update via device manager, i need the name of your BIOS and mainboard.
The names on these, can be found through the Dxdiag command. Just type dxdiag in the run box in the start menu.
Info on these are on first tab (default tab.)
And lastly. Do this computer connect wirelessly? because according to your test, two different network adapter drivers are displayed.
One from Via Technologies and the other from Microsoft.
Ok - Might need some help here. Can't find my graphics card in the device manager. Is it under display adapters? I have 2 though. RADEON 9200 PRO Family and RADEON 9200 PRO SEC Family. Or am I completeley wrong.
Checked my dxdiag and I have a Default System BIOS (I think an American Megatrends Inc. P1.90) and I have a VIA M266A.
I also have a CPU-z file which allows me to see that.
Is that right?
This computer is wired. I have two other computers that work Wirelessly (one PC and one Lappy).
Sorry about stupid me - my brother set it all up and he's an uber geek(likes to think!) but never has any "time" for me. Guess once I've started to fix things I'll be more in touch with how to keep it on track!
