If you have a dedicated type of video card, then it is not a chipset problem. It's a video card feature to have pixel sharer support. Check support website for information and detailed information about your video card and for fresh drivers. Also free software SiSoft Sandra can give you a lot of usuful information about your hardware including shader support.
The SM Bus (not bus) controller is also known as the System Management Bus Controller. It is part of your computer's motherboard chipset drivers. If you need to install chipset drivers, you need one that is compatible with the SM Bus controller.
Device drivers can be found on Dell's website. Audio, chipset, video and network drivers are all recommended. http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&ServiceTag=&SystemID=INS_PNT_P4_9400&os=WW1&osl=en&catid=&impid=
One day, Done right. if you have all the parts. This is setting up the bios, loading the OS, loading all the chipset drivers, testing all the hardware.
Device drivers establish the communication between PC's and the device, drivers are the interface of devices,
Yes it has wireless drivers 802.11g, 802.11a, 802.11b
I had windows XP and it had Pixelshader 3.0, I upgraded to windows 7 and update all my drivers and the Gpuz says it has pixelshader 4
Chipset drivers are software that enables the operating system to use the features of the corresponding chipset.
You can download the drivers for any chipset from the manufacturers website. Google the brand name and you will be able to find it.
You should install chipset drivers immediately after installing the operating system. You should reinstall them if there is a newer version or you start losing functionality on your PC. For instance, if some of your USB ports don't work or your PC's performance has drastically reduced, you might want to try reinstalling all your drivers, including your chipset drivers.
You can download sound card drivers for Intel 845 chipset from the Intel Download Center. You can also get them from software download sites like Softonic and Brothersoft.
Chipset drivers refers to your mainboard. The drivers are used for small detail items like on board video, on board sound card, on board network card, usb ports. The chipset drivers are absolutely essential as they control virtually everything. However, WinXP comes with many generic drivers and will install these during setup. Often they will do the job well enough, but I always install the manufacturer's latest drivers because they are specifically designed for the hardware.
Youll need to know what chipset you have. This may not be particularly easy to do if your system is not a brand name system. If it is a brand name system, start a question like "What chipset does a (insert brand and model) computer have?" And hopefully we'll be able to answer it. If it isn't a brand name system, this is a stickier situation. The only way to get windows to tell you what chipset you have is to look at what drivers its using. Presumably if your system was using the right drivers you wouldn't be looking to install new ones, so its a bit of a catch-22. There is a program you can run which will tell you. It is called unknown device identifier. With a little know-how and a bit of luck you can use it to figure out what chipset you have. I will link to it below. Once you know what chipset youre looking for, 99% of the job is finished. Just go on Google & search for it.
If the motherboard manufacturer doesn't have them (which is very unlikely), the chipset manufacturer (such as Intel, NVIDIA, or VIA) may have generic drivers that will work. This should always be a last resort, since the motherboard manufacturer may have made changes that will not work with the generic drivers.
There is no need to search for drivers. The graphics chipset, audio chipset and LAN are all supported by Ubuntu out of the box.
Check drivers for the chipset and especially for the video card.
The SM Bus (not bus) controller is also known as the System Management Bus Controller. It is part of your computer's motherboard chipset drivers. If you need to install chipset drivers, you need one that is compatible with the SM Bus controller.
It has a RaLink RT3070 chipset so you can download the latest drivers for that from the related link.