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Question for the Dell wizards:

I have fallen heir to an old Dell Precision Workstation 420 MT (800 MHz PIII, Win 2000, 256 Mb rambus memory, SCSI hard drive) that works dandy, but I can't find drivers for the motherboard chipset on the Dell website. I entered the service tag number, and found and downloaded updated drivers for the video card and on-board ethernet, and also a BIOS update. But I find no mention of drivers for the motherboard chipset. I'd like to have them just in case.

Where do they hide?

I think this machine was fairly hot stuff in its day; and, since I'm not a gamer I can still find some use for it.

Thanks for all help, past, present and future.

Lou

That is an "old" commercial workstation model PC.

There are no chipset drivers listed on the Dell downloads, in fact there is no distinction of drivers for whatever Operating System.

For gaming, at best that MAY work for some old DOS games but not for "modern" gaming.

The CPU in this is a Pentium III. AGP for Video. It mentions "Y2K" issues but it also uses the high priced "RDRAM". The video socked is "AGP PRO" (4X).

Thanks, Jack.

I don't care about gaming at all, on this or any other PC. This box came from my kid's high school CAD lab - they were going to pitch it, and they let him take it home instead. It has AutoCAD on it, which is why I'd like to keep it going.

Thanks again.

Some "older" systems didn't have chipset drivers and this appears to be one of those.

I would say use it "as is" until it finally "dies".