Serious business driver problems.

[Colyo]

I dont know how, I dont know why, but my onboard video driver is gone.

Now, usually the logical answer to this would be to identify my motherboard and google up a driver for it... There is however, several oddities.

While my video driver for onboard video is now apparently gone, my computer still has perfectly fine picture. The only problem is, any games i play require my video driver information to work, unfortunatley including MapleStory.

Another oddity, is that I downloaded a program that detects the name and manufacturer of your motherboard along with other information (forget the name beforehand, but i have friends that have tried it to their satisfaction) so I would be able to hunt down driver downloads. Here is where it gets really screwed up- The name and manufacturer of my motherboard came up as BLANK. why would this happen, when the only driver that is missing is my onboard video? This is what is perplexing me.

The guy who custom built this computer built it rather crappily out of old, cheap parts because my dad didn't want a very powerfull computer and needed it cheap, because all he does is email and banking... However he may still have my driver installation CDs. My dad, however, is a killer beast from hell, and will kill me if he discovers what ive done, even though it effects him in no way. This means that calling the man that built this machine to get the driver installation CD back is an absolute last option, because this will alert my dad to my activities.

Ask away any other questions you need to to help me solve this problem, please! Im looking for any other way to identify my motherboard and find the drivers I need to download and install, so I can reinstall the drivers and get back into Maple!

[Unthor]

Hmm, I'm assuming you have an intel graphics chipset (As I don't know of any others). Try this page (http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/inf/sb/CS-009269.htm). Open the side of your tower and look at the chip.
http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/inf/Img/810.jpg

Look at the second line on the chip (in the example it's "fw82810"). On the intel page, match the number with the number under "Memory Controller Hub (MCH)". (The example matches a "Intel® 810 Chipset"). Go here (http://downloadcenter.intel.com/default.aspx) when you find out the kind of chipset, search for the driver here. Good luck.

[Bacon]

Always read the stickies first. (http://www.southperry.net/forums/showthread.php?t=2516)

[XTOTHEL]

you can also find it in the bios if the sticky doesn't help.

[Colyo]

Heres whats odd.

Please dont laugh at my vid card, I didnt build this nor buy it, its my dads comp.

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CrystalMark 2004R3 [0.9.126.451] (C) 2001-2008 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World [http://crystalmark.info/]
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CrystalMark Result
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CrystalMark : 0

[ ALU ] 0
Fibonacci : 0
Napierian : 0
Eratosthenes : 0
QuickSort : 0
[ FPU ] 0
MikoFPU : 0
RandMeanSS : 0
FFT : 0
Mandelbrot : 0
[ MEM ] 0
Read : 0.00 MB/s ( 0)
Write : 0.00 MB/s ( 0)
Read/Write : 0.00 MB/s ( 0)
Cache : 0.00 MB/s ( 0)
[ HDD ] 0
Read : 0.00 MB/s ( 0)
Write : 0.00 MB/s ( 0)
RandomRead512K : 0.00 MB/s ( 0)
RandomWrite512K : 0.00 MB/s ( 0)
RandomRead 64K : 0.00 MB/s ( 0)
RandomWrite 64K : 0.00 MB/s ( 0)
[ GDI ] 0
Text : 0
Square : 0
Circle : 0
BitBlt : 0
[ D2D ] 0
Sprite 10 : 0.00 FPS ( 0)
Sprite 100 : 0.00 FPS ( 0)
Sprite 500 : 0.00 FPS ( 0)
Sprite 1000 : 0.00 FPS ( 0)
Sprite 5000 : 0.00 FPS ( 0)
Sprite 10000 : 0.00 FPS ( 0)
[ OGL ] 0
Scene 1 Score : 0
Lines (x1000) : ( 0)
Scene 1 CPUs : ( 0)
Scene 2 Score : 0
Polygons(x1000) : ( 0)
Scene 2 CPUs : ( 0)

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System Information
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OS : Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 [5.1 Build 2600]
Display Mode : 800 x 600 32bit
Memory : 703 MB
DirectX : 9.0c
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CPU
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CPU Name : Intel Pentium 4 (Willamette)
Vendor String : GenuineIntel
Name String : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.70GHz
Platform : Socket 478
CPU Type : Original OEM processor
Number(Logical) : 1
Hyper-Threading : 1
Family : F
FamilyEx : 00
Model : 1
Stepping : 2
BrandID : 08
APIC : 00
Feature : MMX SSE SSE2

Current Original
Clock : 1700.07 MHz 1700.00 MHz
System Clock : 100.00 MHz 100.00 MHz
System Bus : 400.02 MHz 400.00 MHz
Multiplier : 17.00 17.00
Data Rate : QDR
Over Clock : 0.00 %

L1 T-Cache : 12 KuOps
L1 D-Cache : 8 KB
L2 Cache : 256 KB [Full:1700.07 MHz]
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Device
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ChipSet : VIA P4M800/CE
North : VIA P4M800/CE
South : VIA VT8237/R
IDE Controller : VIA Bus Master IDE Controller - 0571
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Graphics
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Video : VIA UniChrome Pro IGP
Video Product : Video Controller (VGA Compatible)
Video Vendor :
Video Chip :
Video RAM :
Driver Version :
Driver Date : ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
HDD
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Type Size Model ( Buffer Mode )
IDE 40.0GB WDC WD400EB-00CPF0 2048KB Ultra DMA/100
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BIOS
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Vendor : Phoenix Technologies, LTD
Caption : Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
Version : P4M80P - 42302e31
Date :
SM BIOS Caption : 6.00 PG
SM BIOS Version : 2.3
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Mother
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Vendor : MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD
Product : MS-7104
Version : 20A
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Computer System
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Vendor : MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD
Product : MS-7104
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CPUID Detail Information
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0x00000000 : EAX=0x00000002 EBX=0x756E6547 ECX=0x6C65746E EDX=0x49656E69
0x00000001 : EAX=0x00000F12 EBX=0x00010808 ECX=0x00000000 EDX=0x3FEBFBFF
0x00000002 : EAX=0x665B5001 EBX=0x00000000 ECX=0x00000000 EDX=0x007A7040
0x80000000 : EAX=0x80000004 EBX=0x00000000 ECX=0x00000000 EDX=0x00000000
0x80000001 : EAX=0x00000000 EBX=0x00000000 ECX=0x00000000 EDX=0x00000000
0x80000002 : EAX=0x20202020 EBX=0x20202020 ECX=0x20202020 EDX=0x6E492020
0x80000003 : EAX=0x286C6574 EBX=0x50202952 ECX=0x69746E65 EDX=0x52286D75
0x80000004 : EAX=0x20342029 EBX=0x20555043 ECX=0x30372E31 EDX=0x007A4847
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PCI Device List
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No Bus Dev Fnc VendorDeviceRev SubSystem Class DeviceType
0 0: 0: 0 1106h:0314h.00h 11060314h 060000h Host Bridge
1 0: 0: 1 1106h:1314h.00h 00000000h 060000h Host Bridge
2 0: 0: 2 1106h:2314h.00h 00000000h 060000h Host Bridge
3 0: 0: 3 1106h:3208h.00h 00000000h 060000h Host Bridge
4 0: 0: 4 1106h:4314h.00h 00000000h 060000h Host Bridge
5 0: 0: 7 1106h:7314h.00h 00000000h 060000h Host Bridge
6 0: 1: 0 1106h:B198h.00h 00000000h 060400h PCI to PCI Bridge
7 0: 7: 0 1102h:0002h.04h 11020020h 040100h Audio Device
8 0: 7: 1 1102h:7002h.01h 11020020h 098000h Other Input Controller
9 0: 15: 0 1106h:3149h.80h 14627104h 010400h RAID Controller
10 0: 15: 1 1106h:0571h.06h 14627104h 01018Ah Bus Master IDE controller
11 0: 16: 0 1106h:3038h.81h 14627104h 0C0300h UHCI USB Controller
12 0: 16: 1 1106h:3038h.81h 14627104h 0C0300h UHCI USB Controller
13 0: 16: 2 1106h:3038h.81h 14627104h 0C0300h UHCI USB Controller
14 0: 16: 3 1106h:3038h.81h 14627104h 0C0300h UHCI USB Controller
15 0: 16: 4 1106h:3104h.86h 14627104h 0C0320h EHCI USB Controller
16 0: 17: 0 1106h:3227h.00h 11063227h 060100h ISA Bridge
17 0: 18: 0 1106h:3065h.78h 14627104h 020000h Ethernet Controller
18 1: 0: 0 1106h:3344h.01h 14627104h 030000h VGA Compatible Controller

No DeviceName
0 VIA CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
1 VIA CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
2 VIA CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
3 VIA PT890 Host Bridge
4 VIA CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
5 VIA CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
6 VIA VT8237 PCI Bridge
7 Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1
8 Creative Labs SB Live! Game Port
9 VIA VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller
10 VIA VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE
11 VIA VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller
12 VIA VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller
13 VIA VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller
14 VIA VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller
15 VIA USB 2.0
16 VIA VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South]
17 VIA VT6102 [Rhine-II]
18 VIA CN700/P4M800 Pro/P4M800 CE/VN800 [S3 UniChrome Pro]
I bolded the section that is the problem.
not only is this odd, it looks like my original diagnosis was wrong o_O. Oh well, it was a good guess for someone relativley new to indepth tech issues.

EDIT: Success! Took forever, but I finally found the driver I need for this shit old motherboard.

I should have just checked that sticky in the first place lol, CrystalMark is my savior.