Nebulon Posted November 9, 2016 Share Posted November 9, 2016 Does anyone know a good website for old PC drivers? I'm trying to avoid the numerous "just click this button to let us scan your system and install 'drivers' on your computer" websites out there. They give me the creeps. Now if I can actually locate the XP drivers for the UMAX S-6E, I'd be one notch less stressed-out... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HardZero Posted November 14, 2016 Share Posted November 14, 2016 You might try asking around on Vogons if someone has the specific drivers you need. I usually just google the manufacturer and model numbers for the part and start clicking away. I can't find any one site that has all the drivers I need or at least most of them. Getting my old Gateway Solo 9300 up with ME required drivers from 3-4 different sites. One of which was an old faculty tech support page for some university that no one bothered to take down I guess. Searching for drivers is easily the worst part of collecting old PC hardware. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Usotsuki Posted November 15, 2016 Share Posted November 15, 2016 Man, believe it. Softbricked a PC trying to figure out why I couldn't get a NIC to work in it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nebulon Posted November 15, 2016 Author Share Posted November 15, 2016 I sure wish I knew how to write driver files. It would be cool to have that level of control over a machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eightbit Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 (edited) Does anyone know a good website for old PC drivers? I'm trying to avoid the numerous "just click this button to let us scan your system and install 'drivers' on your computer" websites out there. They give me the creeps. Now if I can actually locate the XP drivers for the UMAX S-6E, I'd be one notch less stressed-out... You should be able to use MagicScan: http://www.umax.de/cgi-bin/treiber.pl?Scanner=vista&OS=win_XP&SCSI_Karte=0&DigiCam=0&DVD=0&D_Form=Suchen+%2F+Search Oops, link dead, but this one is not: http://www.helpjet.net/Fs-74900502-30944839-20310361.html Edited November 22, 2016 by eightbit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nebulon Posted November 22, 2016 Author Share Posted November 22, 2016 You should be able to use MagicScan: http://www.umax.de/cgi-bin/treiber.pl?Scanner=vista&OS=win_XP&SCSI_Karte=0&DigiCam=0&DVD=0&D_Form=Suchen+%2F+Search Oops, link dead, but this one is not: http://www.helpjet.net/Fs-74900502-30944839-20310361.html Thanks! Turned out it was a combination of a registry edit and a 'modified' .INI file. The UMAX S-6E lives again 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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