Soltek AGP4X Motherboard - Searching For Drivers.

[squidgelet10]

Greetings each.
Does anyone know where/how I can get hold of all the drivers etc, or the driver installation disk(s), for one of these please?
I am trying to "tart up" a PC recently acquired minus its HDD.
Answers on a postcard please.
Be good!
Cheers.

[ChuckFickens]

Soltek haven't made motherboards for about 6 years and have been out of business totally for about 4, so you are probably not going to find a nice easy download all drivers here type link..

Go through the devices you need drivers for in device manager, open the properties have a look in the hardware id section under devices and make a note of the PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_9505&SUBSYS_02281043&REV_00 type string that is listed there.... you only need the first part upto the second & sign, soo... PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_9505

Put that string in google and search for it and you should be able to find the maker and model of the hardware out, then goto the makers website and find the driver.

[squidgelet10]

I was afraid of that Mr F. :-( Thanks for the info.
One device WILL be difficult though: the CD-ROM. Although BIOS recognises it, it is nowhere to be seen in Device Manager and doesn't perform at all (apart from opening/closing) although it obviously worked during WIN98 installation.
Before you ask: I have to do it that way as I only have XP etc upgrade disks 'cos I am too mean to buy full installations! :-o
Stay good!
Cheers.

[ChuckFickens]

Are you saying you are in 98 or XP at the moment?

If 98 you'll need to setup the DOS drivers (though I think if you boot from the XP upgrade disk it will detect a suitable OS on the hard drive and let you install anyhow.... but it's been an age since I've done that upgrade)
http://artsweb.bham.a...ical/doscddrivers.htm

If you are in XP and the drive isn't showing in device manager in XP but does show in the BIOS then you need to remove the upper and lower filter entry from the registry so look in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\C
ontrol\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE
10318}
and delete the upperfilter and lower filter keys if they are there.

[squidgelet10]

Hi Mr F.
I am running WIN98 at the moment, 'cos I can't use CD-ROM to get any further.
CMOS has the drive listed as Primary Slave [ATAPI-CD ROM-DRIVE-5].
I now have MSCDEX.EXE and OAKCDROM.SYS on floppy disk, but Gawd knows what I am going to do with 'em!
Cheers.

[ChuckFickens]

Thinking about it, you are doing this a very long winded way...

You can download the appropriate windows XP boot floppy disk image from here... http://support.micros...scid=kb;en-us;Q310994

create the floppy disks (instructions on that page ^) then boot the computer from the floppy disks and follow instructions to install windows XP without having to install 98 first (you will be required to insert the windows98 media at some point in the installation just to confirm you have them)

[AlBags]

Oak is a driver for the CDRom for a boot disk.

Via drivers (from their site) will help you .. As its a 133 Apollo ..
as will Realtek to get Ethernet going.

When in doubt ... always have a poke around E Europe ..
Loads listed here ..
http://www.mainboard.cz/all.htm

[squidgelet10]

Hey Mr F:
That was an absolutely brilliant suggestion! I thank you profusely.
I had never heard of that facility before.
I had a bit of a job rounding-up six half-decent floppies, 'cos most of what I have left already have some content on them. Most are just worn out anyway!
XP Home (S/P2) went in without any problem whatsoever, including all the required drivers.
Result = one very happy bunny and one very happy PC. :-)
You have obviously been doing this stuff for much longer than I.
Thanks also to Albags for his/her input.
You are indeed a great bunch.
Stay good!
Cheers.