Intel Chipset missing from Device Manager

idata — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:22:08 GMT

Pretty much as the title says; I've been trying to identify which Intel chipset I have for my Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 Quad Core Processor. I've tried each of the methods outlined here:

http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/sb/cs-009245.htm http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/sb/cs-009245.htm

to no avail (Device Manager didn't show it, the utility wouldn't work, processor manual didn't specify it, couldn't determine what the "chip markings" meant). The following is a picture of what the Device Manager is showing:

http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/6196/devicemanager.jpg http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/6196/devicemanager.jpg

The reason I've been trying to find out what chipset I've got is so I can update it's drivers and *hopefully* stabilize my constantly crashing machine. I'm going to be calling the manufacturer later today, but I thought I'd ask the folks on this forum if there was anything else I could try doing to identify my chipset and move on with installing up-to-date drivers.

Any helpful comments or suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks for reading!

Re: Intel Chipset missing from Device Manager

idata — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:21:30 GMT

Hi,

Do you know teh model of teh motherboard? or if teh system was pre built, does it have a model number?

Also you could try this http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/sb/cs-010687.htm http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/sb/cs-010687.htm

If it is an Intel motherboard it will tell us teh model.

From teh model we can figure out which chipset you have

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