standard vga driver - win xp :(

kurjam

my son as an old time laptop but it does him for internet and homework.
a few weeks ago the hard drive stopped working and we had to get a new one, which our local shop put in along with our win xp and drivers.
however the standard vga driver as a yellow exclamation mark next to it, and i need this so i have been told as whenu using the internet the screen does not scroll smoothly.
where can i get this from, was told it should be on the win xp disk, but laptop not picking it up.
never had this problem in the past when had to re-format etc.
thanks for any help

closed

Time laptop, or old time? Post the model

go into device manager, click on the yellow exclamation mark, find the instance id, and google it, should point you to the video driver, if not, paste the instance id into your thread

esuhl

You can probably download the video driver you need from the manufacturer's website...

chunter

download and run Everest. (good for older computers)
http://majorgeeks.com/download4181.html

Either
1. goto "motherboard" and click on "motherboard" icon.
Should give the motherboard name.
(post it here and someone will track down the driver)

OR
2. goto "display" and click on "windows video" and "pci / agp video"
It should give the onboard display adaptor.
(post the two bits of display information and someone will track down the driver)

First method is probably the best.

kurjam

thanks used everest and it came up with this....
Motherboard Name Time Computers A520K7

chunter

What does option 2 give you?
Google not helpful for this one.

Time were notorious for being vague. Seems they used rebadged Mitac motherboards..

GRM

Google suggests it has a ATI Radeon 320m gfx card.

http://www.hardwareheaven.com/laptop-notebook-general-technical-forum/89145-laptop-drivers-time-traveller.html looks useful.

aliEnRIK

Sometimes, simply using WINDOWS UPDATES can find the right driver for you