Chipset support for Pentium III

Kitsune · Post by **Kitsune** » 2005-02-04 07:45pm

I purchased an older computer (NT 4.0 OS) and am thinking about either rebuilding the operating system or replacing the operating system with one that I am more familiar with (98 se) or maybe with win 2000 becuase it was recommended.

I contacted the manufacturer of the machine and they told me that I need to go to intel for the chipset. They do not appear to have the chipsets on their website. Does anybody have an alternate place that they suggest I go. The chipset is the 440 BX on a Pent III 850 processor

Kitsune · Post by **Kitsune** » 2005-02-04 07:46pm

I also am asking what exactly do I need for chipset support for files?

Vendetta · Post by **Vendetta** » 2005-02-04 08:11pm

http://support.intel.com/support/chipse ... 009195.htm

Those are the download pages for the 440 chipsets.

That said, if you have 98 or 2000 installed, you shouldn't need to install any chipset drivers. I had a 440BX running 98 and 2k happily for years (My dad still has it running), and it's never needed a chipset driver installed.

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman · Post by **Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman** » 2005-02-05 01:51pm

Vendetta wrote:http://support.intel.com/support/chipse ... 009195.htm

Those are the download pages for the 440 chipsets.

That said, if you have 98 or 2000 installed, you shouldn't need to install any chipset drivers. I had a 440BX running 98 and 2k happily for years (My dad still has it running), and it's never needed a chipset driver installed.

IIRC chipset driver requirement starts on XP and 2003. Am I correct?

White Haven · Post by **White Haven** » 2005-02-05 01:57pm

Negatory, Tango Two. Fail to load chipset drivers on most any OS and all kinds of funky shit doesn['t work quite right. For a quick demonstration, glance at the device manager and note how many wierd things are showing up as unloaded.

Vendetta · Post by **Vendetta** » 2005-02-05 02:01pm

What you'll usually find, though, is that the operating system already comes with a big bucketload of drivers for almost every chipset imaginable, and will happily use compatible reference drivers for anything it doesn't have specific ones for.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2005-02-05 11:47pm

You shouldn't really have to worry about chipset drivers in NT4.

Kitsune · Post by **Kitsune** » 2005-02-08 09:51pm

phongn wrote:You shouldn't really have to worry about chipset drivers in NT4.

Sorry, I did not explain myself right. I was able to download a set of chipsets which I hope are the proper ones. Problem is that the documentation on the Intel website seems to contrict itself. I am likely going to upgrade the laptop to either Windows 98se or Windows 2000. I have a DVD Rom and there are few DVD programs which will run on NT.

The computer has NT 4.0 presently but it has a full set of drivers and I am thinking about saving all the directories which might contain drivers.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2005-02-08 10:15pm

Simply saving the directories containing the pre-existing drivers probably won't work since there's a bunch of other data used by Windows when installing drivers. You need to identify precisely which drivers you need.