E6850 driver?

[767pilot]

Is there an official driver for the Intel Core 2 Duo E6850?

In device manager under XP the driver details are

Driver provider : Microsoft
Driver date : 01/04/2004
Driver version : 5.1.2600.0

Surely there must be an official Intel driver? I've looked on their website and googled but cant find any info

Are others running the CPU with any different driver?

thanks
Gray

 

[Mousemonkey]

WTF!

 

[pausert20]

Is there an official driver for the Intel Core 2 Duo E6850?

In device manager under XP the driver details are

Driver provider : Microsoft
Driver date : 01/04/2004
Driver version : 5.1.2600.0

Surely there must be an official Intel driver? I've looked on their website and googled but cant find any info

Are others running the CPU with any different driver?

thanks
Gray

Not sure what you are getting at here. I don't have any hardware in the device manager that is listed as XP. XP is provided by Microsoft and not Intel. The processor has uCode to make it run successfully. This is included in the Bios. The uCode is loaded at Post.

 

[NaDa]

Be sure not to use the q6600 driver you could unlock the extra two cores.

 

[Mousemonkey]

Be sure not to use the q6600 driver you could unlock the extra two cores.

:lol:

 

[NaDa]

Im sorry I just couldnt resist.

 

[Mousemonkey]

I know, Sometimes the temptations are just to great.

 

[Shadow703793]

THERE IS NO DRIVER FOR A CPU. Are you asking the driver for the Chipset or Integrated Audio or Video?

 

[btdeadend]

Technically, there is a driver for the CPU due to the HAL that Windows uses. If you all look at your device manager you will see that it exists. There is no updated driver IF you are running the most recent Service pack and set of patchs. I dont' believe they have issued any updates for the CPU driver, but you never know...

No CPU manufacturer will write drivers unless their CPU does not conform to the x86 standard completely. It's what allows MS to make windows that runs on different CPU architectures

Get your facts straight before posting snide remarks and calling people idiots. He had a legitimate question considering that people on the forums are always talking about using the updated drivers for everything.

 

[Rogue77777]

Nice call BT
Just adding to what you said, That driver info is located in Device Manager under Processors.

For all you smart people out there; Don't put someone down for asking what you might now think is a dumb question. We were all new to this at one point.

 

[767pilot]

The reason I asked is because I have just upgraded from an AMD Athlon 64 4000 and I had an official AMD driver for that. I thought all CPUs had a software driver but at least the sensible and helpful amongst you have helped me out, thankyou !

 

[Mousemonkey]

Why then did you not mention this in your first post?, If you had then I would have been able to at least guess that you meant the optimization patch that some people seem to require for the dual core Athlons.

Its all about the amount of information given mate.

 

[767pilot]

I posted : In device manager under XP the driver details are

Driver provider : Microsoft
Driver date : 01/04/2004
Driver version : 5.1.2600.0

That means within windows XP, under device manager for CPU, I have that information above. Now seeing as I was asking about a CPU driver I would have thought it obvious for the experts such as yourself to determine exactly what I was refering to.

Quote{Its all about the amount of information given mate.)/Quote

I agree, but I would have thought that people who likes to put people down when they ask a question that may have an obvious answer would have understood exactly what I meant.

maybe some people just aren't as clever as they try to make out!

 

[Mousemonkey]

I posted : In device manager under XP the driver details are

Driver provider : Microsoft
Driver date : 01/04/2004
Driver version : 5.1.2600.0

That means within windows XP, under device manager for CPU, I have that information above. Now seeing as I was asking about a CPU driver I would have thought it obvious for the experts such as yourself to determine exactly what I was refering to.

Quote{Its all about the amount of information given mate.)/Quote

I agree, but I would have thought that people who likes to put people down when they ask a question that may have an obvious answer would have understood exactly what I meant.

maybe some people just aren't as clever as they try to make out!

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[randomizer]

No need to go and harass him over it, crikey. Correcting someone and calling them an idiot are two obviously different things. 767pilot your post was a bit ambiguous, but that still doesnt call for alot of these comments.

 

[Mousemonkey]

I apologise if I was a bit snappy this morning, lack of coffee and all that but there was still no need for the sense of humour failure, I thought the quad core crack was quite funny.

 

[shargrath]

yeh its a fair question you guys should have left it at "Be sure not to use the q6600 driver you could unlock the extra two cores." jeez these forums have changed allot for better and for worse.

 

[jeb1517]

Driver version : 5.1.2600.0

That's the exact driver version for the ACPI. Just a coincidence?

 

[speedbird]

Someone asks a question on something they are not sure about because after all this is a discussion and help forum! Insulting other posters has no place on this forum !

 

[randomizer]

Or any forum, except a couple that I stumbled across once, they were dedicated flame forums :lol:

 

[randomizer]

Good ol' turpit saves the day

 

[turpit]

All right, thats enough.

This a forum, not some l337 kiddies blog. The guy asked an honest queston.

Nada....that was just mean.....damn funny.....but mean :lol: :lol:

btdeadend- thats for actually addresing the issue

767...dont take it personal. A thick skin helps

everyone else...what, were you born with your wonderous computer knowledge? I dont think so. Everyone everywhere knew nothing at one time, and no one here is anydifferent. No point in being mean to someone asking an honest question.