Question : Video Controller (VGA compatible) not found

Hi,

I have recently formatted the hard drive on my laptop and i'm having trouble getting the drivers to get the various hardware working correctly.

It turns out that this is a reconditoined laptop and so locating the drivers has proved problematic.

I have gone through the system infor screen to locate the device and vendor ID and then used PCIDB to find the vendor and the chipset ;the reulst were chipset: Via Built in VGA  Vendor: VIA technologies.

However i have looked at the VIA website ad googled the results but i cannot find the driver that i need.

Any help would be greatly appreciated with this.

Thanks.

Answer : Video Controller (VGA compatible) not found

Here's the source of the problem. First the software finds the hardware

Found matching hardware!
Found InstID=PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_3118&SUBSYS_C0151631&REV_02\4&1feb96e4&0&0008.
Found Mfg line: 'VIA.Mfg'.
Ln 0: 'viagfx_3204,PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_3108'

Here it says the contents of the .INF doesn't describe the hardware it found

** INF does not describe detected hardware.
DestroyTimer returned an error!

Try this version of the driver:

http://www.ecsusa.com/DLfile/driver/notebook/vga/VIAS3G_0228.zip