Updating drivers

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    Winnipeg is offline Valued Member

    Updating drivers

    I have a Seanix CS Series desktop computer running
    Windows Xp Home, Sp2, Intel(r)(Celeron(r)CPU(1.70GHz)
    1.70GHz, 224MB of RAM(Upgrading memory soon)
    Please let me make this perfectly clear, my computer has
    never run better since I bought it 4 years ago. When I brought
    it home the machine didn't run that fast but after tweaking the
    system over the years it runs great.

    I went to a website called driveragent.com and let them scan my
    machine and they said 23% of my drivers were out of date.
    Outdated drivers according to Website http:\\www.driveragent.com
    Display Adapters > SiS 650_651_M650_740 Rated as bad - Update required
    IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers > SiS PCI IDE Controller - Rated as bad - Update
    Network adapters > SiS 900-Based PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter - Rated as bad
    System Devices > SiS Accelerated Graphics Port
    Universal Serial Bus controllers > SiS PCI to USB Enhanced Host Controller
    SiS 7001 PCI to USB Open Host Controller > Attention read notes - USB 2.0
    The latest update to Windows USB 2.0 drivers is found in Microsoft Knowledgebase Article KB908673.
    You do not appear to have this installed. Please review the Knowledgebase Article, and install the update if you are experiencing the symptoms described in it.

    The only problem that I have noticed so far, I get a lot of Warning W32time, Event id:36 The time service has not been able to synchronize the system time for 49152 seconds because none of the time providers has been able to provide a usable time stamp. The system clock is unsynchronized. I have to update time.windows.com server and problem solved, but the next day I have to do the same thing this usually happens right after a scan which could be spyware, anti-virus or when the service control manager is required.

    I know running the most up to date drivers is really important to having a stable computer. My question, I need all the above drivers yet my system has never run better except for the time problem I have no problems with watching a webcast, movie, video, or listening to music, no shutdown or restart problems. In the 4 years... Windows has crashed 3 times two which brought up active desktop(which took 30 seconds to fix) but the first crash killed Windows and that was when I installed service pack two, I had to reinstall Windows. If you were me, would you update all these drivers, I have heard of many horror stories of users updating their drivers and the machine went crazy and they had all kinds of problems afterwards even thou they rolled back the driver.

    I take very good care of my machine, I delete all old programs and files I don't need, download and update all critical updates for the programs on my machine, run spyware and anti-virus(AVG.) which are updated daily and have the latest definitions, I use 2 registry cleaners and manually edit the registry.
    I use cwshredder, hiJack this and many other tools including doing many online scans, defrag every 3rd day... I find if I do this defrag only takes 15 minutes to complete, I use Windows firewall(thinking of installing zone alarm) because Windows only does inbound traffic and I think montioring outbound traffic is just as important for the security of the machine, I let Shields Up scan my machine every month with their port scanner and according to them(this machine does not exist on the Internet). The last thing I do is cleaning the inside of the machine every year paying special attention to the connectors, wires, cables, power supply and fans.

    I'm sorry for such a long winded post, I would be very greatefully for any advice on this matter.

    Thank You, very much


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    jephree is offline ¨*·.¸ «.·°·..·°·.» ¸.·*¨
    "If it ain't broken; don't fix it".

    Those all appear to be your chipset drivers (SiS). Perhaps your motherboard has revised the BIOS and subsequently the drivers. If you have no problems do not update either BIOS or drivers.

    The Time32 error is quite common and basically benign.
    Mark Minasi's suggestion to reset the registry fixed this problem for me. As per Mark Minasi: "My XP desktop stopped synchronizing its time with the domain. The Event Log kept showing that the desktop had not time-synced with any of my DCs in weeks. That worried me because if my workstation's time drifted more than five minutes from the domain controllers' time then I would not be able to log on. Once I was three minutes off, I figured it was time to figure out what had happened.

    I tried to re-synchronize from the command line:

    w32tm /resync

    And got "the computer did not resync because no time data was available." Ouch, that does not look good. Then I realized that I had fixed my system's time server as an experiment rather than letting AD set it. Some free time sync programs do that also, so many of you may be in this position. I just cleared out HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\W32Time\Parameters's "NtpServer" value entry, and then I restarted the Windows Time Service. Sadly, no dice ... still no sync. For some reason, if your domain does not find all of the Registry entries to be "just right, " then it will not sync with your system. You can, thankfully, fix it with this command:

    w32tm /config /syncfromflagsOMHIER /update

    Type that from a command line, and then restart Windows Time Service and retry the w32tm /resync or, better,

    w32tm /resync /rediscover

    A command that cleans out and rebuilds a few other Registry entries. I had that problem with my XP box about a year ago; since then I have found these commands useful on a number of systems. When workstations get more than five minutes out of sync with the DC, then they stop authenticating but they're not very forthcoming about the reason -- so when authentication's a problem then first look at DNS, and if that doesn't help then look at time!"

    See the link to "Mark Minasi Windows Networking Tech Page Issue #34" for the original article.
    http://www.eventid.net/display.asp?e...32Time&phase=1

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    Winnipeg is offline Valued Member
    Thanks Jephree;

    I like your logic "If it ain't broken don't fix it"

    Checked Seanix website and these were the available
    downloads for my system. I searched the site to see
    how long these downloads would be their, no luck not
    listed. I know I can download them from other sites like
    that driver agent but these are made for my system. I
    hope their still available when I do need them.

    Motherboards Drivers Thunder Bay AGP Drivers WINXP
    Motherboards Drivers Thunder Bay IDE Drivers WINXP
    Network Cards Drivers Thunder Bay LAN Drivers WINXP
    Sound Cards Drivers Thunder Bay Sound Drivers WINXP
    Video Cards Drivers Thunder Bay Video Drivers WINXP
    BIOS Drivers Thunder Bay BIOS Update ()
    I'm not sure what this means () site doesn't mention OS.

    Read all the material on w32time, I have Windows Defender on my system and it's set to scan at midnight, as soon as the scan is finished I get a Warning
    w32time event id:36, which means I have to reset Windows time.

    I've used the netstat command to resync, unregister and register w32time.

    This works for awhile 2 months and then it starts all over again.

    Do you think this could be related to the driver issue.

    I was in the process of sending this post and your website logged me out again, at least I didn't loose the post having a real bad cookie problem here.

    Thanks for all your help

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    jephree is offline ¨*·.¸ «.·°·..·°·.» ¸.·*¨
    Sorry about your cookies. I've not heard of any other issues with this site (which isn't mine: I just hang out here).

    You can always download those drivers and burn them to a CD for the future although most manufacturers keep their driver pages up and running.

    A BIOS is OS independent as it just relates to the motherboard BIOS. Most will list what specific updates have been applied for. Upgrading CPU support for example.

    Time I can only speculate that the Windows Defender is stumbling over a setting and altering it. You can turn off Internet Time under Control Panel > Date and Time > Internet Time

    Other setting options here:

    http://www.worldtimeserver.com/atomic-clock/

    You can always load an Atomic clock as an alternative synchronizer such as but not limited to:

    http://www.download.com/Atomic-Clock...-10061823.html

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