Need help with drivers on an old Packard Bell ixtreme 6052

[Clipperjay]

Hi people I'm helping a friend get her PC up and running.
Its a Packard bell ixtreme 6052
The kid who mucked about with it put windows seven which just does not work with legacy driver for XP.
I'm planning to wipe the lot without the driver install discs.
I've found the PB website with the XP drivers but I'm confused to the following:
1)WHICH DRIVERS TO USE?
2)BEST METHOD OF INSTALLING THEM AFTER XP INSTALL?

Details of what I know on the mother board needs confiming though...
Chips:
SIS962Lua PNA 55110346FA
RTL 8101L sigmatel STAC 9750T
Winbond W83697HF

Its a celeron 2.6GHz I think SKT478???
Motherboard:GA-8SIMLNF?
here is the link to the drivers support can someone clarify what I need please?
ftp://ftp.download.packardbell.com/DESKTOP/iXtreme%20(2004-2005)/Driver/Xp/]ftp://ftp.download.packardbell.com/DESKTOP/iXtreme%20(2004-2005)/Driver/Xp/]ftp://ftp.download.packardbell.com/DESKTOP/iXtreme%20(2004-2005)/Driver/Xp/

Any advice would be great!
Jay

tino: Fixed FTP tag

[daboggeyman]

Can you identify what mobo ver. is in there ?  I would 1st. go ahead and format the HD and wipe it clean. Go ahead and install XP and get all your updates from MS . Do that 1st. and see what your left with you should be able to get most everything up going. After that you shouldn't need very much as far as drivers.

 The link is broke you provided CJ.

[tino]

Code:

ftp://ftp.download.packardbell.com/DESKTOP/iXtreme%20(2004-2005)/Driver/Xp/

Works for me, this forum software is putting a http at the start of it annoyingly. ( I'll fix the code when I get a chance )

I guess its a SIS Chipset, is it using onboard or dedicated graphics?

[Clipperjay]

Yeah its buggered link weird LOL
Here is the driver list though!
I guess I can discount the AMD stuff  
I'll try an find the Mother board not sure where to look though LOL!
Tino its defo on board GPU and Sound!
Thanks for the help so far guys  
http://www.packardbell.co.uk/pb/en/GB/content/download click  link to the old page on the right

05/05/2010 12:00AM        768,968 AMD_K8_132.exe
05/05/2010 12:00AM     13,430,368 ATI_Catalyst_8263.exe
05/05/2010 12:00AM        589,392 ATI_R480_Chipset.exe
05/05/2010 12:00AM        769,512 Intel_Pro100VE_8011.exe
05/05/2010 12:00AM        593,960 Intellon_PLC_2101.exe
05/05/2010 12:00AM      1,337,656 PBwifipen.exe
05/05/2010 12:00AM      6,984,496 RTL_ALC655ATI_5850.exe
05/05/2010 12:00AM     16,167,088 RTL_HDA_5129.exe
05/05/2010 12:00AM     18,471,568 Radeon_xpress200_811.exe
05/05/2010 12:00AM     12,853,360 Realtek_HDA_Audio_5031.exe
05/05/2010 12:00AM     11,690,336 Realtek_HDA_Driver.exe
05/05/2010 12:00AM      1,681,040 SiS180_RAID_303.exe
05/05/2010 12:00AM        393,507 SiS648FX.exe
05/05/2010 12:00AM      1,568,040 SiS661_video_3653.exe
05/05/2010 12:00AM      1,401,590 SoundMax_AD1981B.exe
05/05/2010 12:00AM      1,426,031 VIAHyperion4in1448v.exe
05/05/2010 12:00AM      5,868,752 VIA_RAID.exe
05/05/2010 12:00AM      7,097,136 VIA_S3G_vid.exe
05/05/2010 12:00AM      2,513,248 ViaKM400_video_pb.exe
05/05/2010 12:00AM      5,276,132 acl655_sis_va356.exe
05/05/2010 12:00AM      5,293,440 alc655_via_5510.exe
05/05/2010 12:00AM     20,726,416 ati_radeon_8172.exe
05/05/2010 12:00AM        584,290 cnx_dvbt4099.exe
05/05/2010 12:00AM      1,448,683 i865pe.exe
05/05/2010 12:00AM      1,818,376 i915_chipset_6011002.exe
05/05/2010 12:00AM      3,508,664 msp2900pci_mdm34003FA.exe
05/05/2010 12:00AM        556,787 n2p-drv.exe
05/05/2010 12:00AM     50,174,176 nVidia_video_9131.exe
05/05/2010 12:00AM      6,148,352 rtl_alc655sis_5780.exe
05/05/2010 12:00AM      6,148,864 rtl_alc655via_5780.exe
05/05/2010 12:00AM        862,352 saa7134v13116.exe
05/05/2010 12:00AM      3,457,099 slcnr320.exe
05/05/2010 12:00AM        460,870 stac97n_via.exe
05/05/2010 12:00AM        766,640 tv7131-1325.exe
05/05/2010 12:00AM        930,184 tv7131-1334a.exe
05/05/2010 12:00AM        974,978 tv7134-2304.exe
05/05/2010 12:00AM        860,584 tv7135-2404.exe
05/05/2010 12:00AM      1,363,464 via_hyper_455.exe

[tino]

SIS962Lua driver :

http://www.driverstock.com/download-sis-sis962l-driver/28-9-5701/index.html

RTL 8101L sigmatel STAC 9750T driver:

http://www.nodevice.com/driver/RTL8101L/get37107.html

Or this direct link:

http://www.softwarepatch.com/utilities/sigmatelstac97-security-dl.html

[Clipperjay]

SIS962Lua driver :

http://www.driverstock.com/download-sis-sis962l-driver/28-9-5701/index.html

RTL 8101L sigmatel STAC 9750T driver:

http://www.nodevice.com/driver/RTL8101L/get37107.html

Or this direct link:

http://www.softwarepatch.com/utilities/sigmatelstac97-security-dl.html

Tino do I need the Lan driver off the first link aswell?
Just found the mobard GA-8SIMLNF VER REV 2.0

[daboggeyman]

I am not going to try to confuse you I found what looks like a automatic scan and driver update  for PB computers look at it and see .

   http://driversdownloadnow.com/packard-bell/drivers/

[tino]

You will most likely need the Lan drivers.

I am only guessing here, I couldn't find any of those drivers on the link you provided.

[tino]

I am not going to try to confuse you I found what looks like a automatic scan and driver update  for PB computers look at it and see .

   http://driversdownloadnow.com/packard-bell/drivers/

That looks like a fairly decent option, although I wonder if it needs a working Lan Connection to work.

[Clipperjay]

I am not going to try to confuse you I found what looks like a automatic scan and driver update  for PB computers look at it and see .

   http://driversdownloadnow.com/packard-bell/drivers/

Thanks mate I really hate driver genius' I had a cry moment with one on my shuttle idle thumbs and all that last resort I'll give it a go though..
Lan drivers okay!
The window seven did say I should load PCI I/O bus driver before the audio sound driver one thats where my skills got shot down at that point.

So far!
05/05/2010 12:00AM     12,853,360 Realtek_HDA_Audio_5031.exe
05/05/2010 12:00AM     11,690,336 Realtek_HDA_Driver.exe
05/05/2010 12:00AM        460,870 stac97n_via.exe
05/05/2010 12:00AM      1,818,376 i915_chipset_6011002.exe
I've got this for the Winbond? W83697HF_31_WIN2KXP.EXE

Just found this which confuses me even more?

http://www.motherboard.cz/mb/gigabyte/GA-8SIMLRev20.htm

[Clipperjay]

XP uploaded and updating
That driver detective wont connect to the internet for some reason and no scans to be had.
Hardware detected three drivers not installed
Multimedia Audio controller
Video Controller (VGA Compatible) 
SM Bus controller

Any suggestions?
Jay

[tino]

The multimedia Audio Controller should be a realtek one.

Did you try the link I provided?

I'm guessing its a SIS chipset for the VGA drivers, same as the SM bus controller.

[Clipperjay]

Yes I did, but have a funny feeling I can only do this in safe mode?
Not sure how to on this machine any suggestions?

[Clipperjay]

Okay spoken to some experts and they say forget it too old.
So I bought them a sound card for 14.00 job done
gave them a GPU, USB's upgraded there Ram job done never want to see a Packard bell again so painfull!

[tino]

Fair enough, your suggesting that we are not experts!!! I'm offended 

It did seem a rather old system. It probably will run a tad better now aswell.

[Clipperjay]

Fair enough, your suggesting that we are not experts!!! I'm offended 

It did seem a rather old system. It probably will run a tad better now aswell.

Even if you guys don't fix my problems, you help me by focusing on the task at hand!
Yeah old? understatement mate LOL!
Its weird in the UK the prices for DDR1 as I call it, cost more than DDR2 because of short supply. Someone wanted (Retail) £25 for a pair of 512mb (1G). One place wanted to charge me just for 512mb!
I got lucky looking in my treasure box of legacy hardware, managed to find one stick of 512 so she has 760mb of ram. 
I've always liked the Celron chips they do one job well and thats it. You can feel it thinking then spring into life.
She should get it back Monday I had to mod the reg-edit a tad to stop annoying pop up reminders, but no issues all service packs are in.
I've learned to have back up discs for all service packs as I reckon this takes the longest time to upload updates and install.   

On another note we just got our Wii back with 140 games LOL!!!