Where do you normally get your drivers?

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At the manufacturer's site?

Well either it stinks or I'm useless.

I'm looking for the drivers for an Asus X58C notebook especially the graphics unit drivers. Naturally you would assume that if it is available you'd find on the manufacturer's site. Not so. This notebook isn't even that old and yet Windows 7 isn't even supported.
 
Asus, like any laptop manufacturer, doesn't make most of the hardware, they just slap it together. You need to know which graphics chip it uses, and look for that. So it'll either be on Intel, AMD, or Nvidia's sites

Edit: Wow, looks like that has an SIS chipset still.. Didn't know they still existed but I'll do some googling...

Edit again: Here's a start.

http://w3.sis.com/download/download_step1.php?id=155963

You have the SIS 672 chipset. See if those drivers work (the link is for the Windows 7 drivers)
 
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Try www.My-Config.com. I had a fair amount of success with this site. You need to install a small helper application but it's not like many others that keep on showing you tons of ads and then also want you to pay for it.
The site may throw in some French every once in a while.
 
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TJ99 said:
Asus, like any laptop manufacturer, doesn't make most of the hardware, they just slap it together. You need to know which graphics chip it uses, and look for that. So it'll either be on Intel, AMD, or Nvidia's sites

Edit: Wow, looks like that has an SIS chipset still.. Didn't know they still existed but I'll do some googling...
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I'm a crappy It technician ... how did you see it had a SIS chipset?
 
From the chipset manufacturers site. They update drivers long after the hardware vendors stop providing updates.

Sites like, Intel, AMD/ATI, nVidia, Realtek, Broadcom, Marvell, ALi, Analog Devices, Cypress, PLX, QLogic, QuickLogic, SIS, TI, VIA etc
 
Vista drivers are the same as Window 7 drivers.
 
For nVidia or ATI notebook drivers, I use Mobility Modder to modify the desktop driver to work with notebooks. It just patches the desktop driver's ini to support notebook graphics. Works perfectly and ensures up to date drivers without having to wait for some slow boat manufacturer to get around to officially update their drivers.

For everything else, i download BTS driverpacks and build a dvd with several thousand drivers on it that is universal for any Windows system.
 
I usually download from Manufacturer's site, otherwise for old systems I used an app to find drivers. Worked very well for when I downgraded my HP dv6-series laptop to XP from Vista
 
If you want up-to-date drivers (on an ongoing basis) you're going to have to go to the chip/chipset manufacturers site rather than say "the asus site". Stay away from all in one sites like download.com (just my opinion).
The product's specifications are a good source, but you can also use the device manager (Control Panel --> Device Manager) to see what devices you have installed. The name of the device usually identifies the chipset. Google that to find the manufacturers website.
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Personally, I'd not trusts any site that wants to install a utility to help me finds drivers.
 
Also have an Asus laptop, but I find it better to look for drivers on the component manufacturer site (asus site is often a bit behind), specially with graphics drivers
 
I agree with the above posts but with my history of drivers on systems, sometimes the drivers listed on the ASUS website are more stable than the latest ones which have been released by chipset manufacturers and haven't been tested by ASUS. Might not always be the case
 
@eXisor: Agreed, many utilities that claim to find drivers are useless or malware!
@stroebs: Good decision, getting drivers from chipset manufacturer's websites can be problematic, only use this as a last resort.
 
oldhat said:
@stroebs: Good decision, getting drivers from chipset manufacturer's websites can be problematic, only use this as a last resort.
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The only case where it helped me is actually using Driver Genius Pro to find XP drivers for a laptop which claimed to not have support for XP, only Vista. Driver Genius Pro identifies the chipset, then I went to the manufacturer's website and downloaded, although didn't always work 100% so there you go.
 
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