How do I determine what motherboard I have?

**Watsyurdeal?** · 10-06-10, 12:41 AM

I was told that my drivers may be out of date for my motherboard, so I was wondering how I would go about updating them. I ran dxdiag and got this information.

Image removed, thanks Kanati

I'm honestly lost here, how the hell do I determine what motherboard I have.?

**Kanati** · 10-06-10, 12:53 AM

cpu-z may or may not tell you. give it a shot.

**Watsyurdeal?** · 10-06-10, 01:05 AM

Thanks, I added the results.

Now what specifically do I have to look for now? The chipset or something else?

**WileECyte** · 10-06-10, 06:56 AM

You should be able to get drivers from Gateway or Intel for the P35 chipset.

**Viktor_Olin** · 10-06-10, 07:26 AM

Check out this utility: DriverMax - Free software downloads and software reviews - CNET Download.com

Free program that tells you what driver updates are available for your system; I believe the free version allows 2 driver downloads per day (something like that). I've used it occasionally with no issues.

Why have you been told that your drivers are outdated? What issues are you having?

**Watsyurdeal?** · 10-06-10, 07:48 PM

Originally Posted by Viktor_Olin

Why have you been told that your drivers are outdated? What issues are you having?

Mainly this error

"Nvlddkm.exe stopped responding and has recovered."

I get this at least one to three times a day, I've uninstalled old Nvidia drivers, used the default ones, and the latest drivers with all old ones removed and still I get this error. I'm not sure if it's just Nvidia having crappy drivers, or maybe it's something else that I'm just not seeing.

**Viktor_Olin** · 10-06-10, 08:48 PM

I was having a similar issue after installing a new GPU. I fixed the issue (at least it hasn't recurred in well over a week) by uninstalling my video drivers, booting into Safe Mode, running Guru3D - Driver Sweeper, rebooting, and installing updated video drivers. Give that a go and let us know what happens.

**Kanati** · 10-07-10, 02:54 PM

If this is a gateway, you might need to use gateway's nvidia drivers too... Some OEMs do their own drivers and installing the generic ones leads to assplosions like you are seeing. I'd try Viktor's suggestion with the driver sweeper first though. Always better to use nvidia's own drivers if you can do so.

**deputyfestus** · 10-07-10, 03:10 PM

Originally Posted by Watsyurdeal?

Mainly this error

"Nvlddkm.exe stopped responding and has recovered."

I get this at least one to three times a day, I've uninstalled old Nvidia drivers, used the default ones, and the latest drivers with all old ones removed and still I get this error. I'm not sure if it's just Nvidia having crappy drivers, or maybe it's something else that I'm just not seeing.

If you're using a builders os version you may have to re-validate it,I use windows7 builders edition and had the same problem after re-validating all was good.