Keeping drivers updated is a well-known way of maximizing the security and performance of any computer or device. The HP Spectre X360 is no different. With drivers being updated all the time, they offer security updates, bug fixes and performance and feature enhancements. All great reasons to keep your laptop up to date. The BIOS can offer performance improvements too. Here’s how to all drivers and BIOS on a HP Spectre X360.Driver and BIOS update for HP Spectre X360HP do a good job supporting their products and the refreshed HP Spectre X360 is no different. It has its own support page listing all drivers, apps and updates available for the machine.
You can use this page or you can use Windows Update, the choice is yours but it is good practice to do both.1. Boot up your HP Spectre X360.2. Click the Windows 10 start button and select the cog icon to access Settings.
Useful technical information.Last updated: June 10, 2010 How to install your motherboard chipset driversYourcontains a,some,and.But it also contains some silicon chips which make all of those parts work together. Themost important of these chips are called the motherboard chipset. The chipsethas a driver which can affect the speed and stability of many of the devicesbuilt into your motherboard. It is fairly common for computers to be runningwith old chipset drivers or to use the basic default drivers built intoWindows. If you're having any kind of stability problems with yourmotherboard then it's a good idea to install the latest chipset drivers.slots are especially susceptible to flakiness caused by old chipset drivers.Even if you don't have an AGP motherboard, it's agood idea to be sure that your chipset drivers are updated to the latestversion.The chipset is usually made up of two chips: the northbridge, and thesouthbridge.
The northbridge is the main chip which connects to theand high-speed.The southbridge is a support chip which provides things like USB ports,network connections, and disk drive controllers. Sometimes the northbridgeand southbridge are built into one chip in which case it's still called achipset even though there's only one chip. Most chipset drivers comeas a single unified software package which contains the various drivers for both chips. Youjust install the chipset driver and it automatically takes care of setting upindividual drivers for each of the devices in the chips. But a fewmotherboards use northbridge and southbridgechips from different manufacturers in which case you need to load the driversfor each chip separately.When someone says that their motherboard uses the ABC chipset, they mean thattheir northbridge is ABC. The southbridge is rarely mentioned.
Even thoughit's not strictly correct, you'll see the terms 'northbridge' and 'chipset'used interchangeably in many programs and websites. They just use the name ofthe northbridge (the main chip) and ignore the southbridge (the supportchip). In most cases you find chipset drivers only by searching for a packagewhich matches the name of your northbridge. You don't need to know the nameof your southbridge to find it. You can usually just ignore the name of yoursouthbridge when it comes to installing your chipset drivers unless you haveone of those rare motherboards which has one brand of northbridge and anotherbrand of southbridge.To install your chipset drivers, the first thing you have to do is figure outwhich chipset is used by your motherboard.is a free program which canidentify the chipset on almost all PC motherboards. CPU-Z has two versions: aversion with an installer, and one in a.Running the one with the installer is a little easier so just download it andexecute it to install it.
Or if you don't like installers and decliningincluded software then just download theandit. In the exceedingly rare cases where CPU-Z doesn't work you can try.Execute CPU-Z and then select the 'Mainboard' tab. CPU-Z uses the termchipset rather than northbridge. In this case the northbridge is listed asIntel P45/P43/G45/G43. That's just a list of variants on a single northbridge.This particular machine actually has the Intel P45 but you don't need to knowthat.
When they give you a list of names it means that they're allvariants on the same design and will use the same chipset driver. Thesouthbridge for this computer is an Intel 82801JR which is also known asthe ICH10R. Sometimes people shorten the chipset names. For example, a chipsetwhich shows up as Intel i875P may also be referred to as an Intel 875 orIntel 875P.
So when you look for the matching name on a website you may haveto be shorten the official name a little. The chipset numbers are the importantpart. To find a match on the website often requires dropping an extraneousletter here and there.
Usually the websites give a list ofall chipset names so it's pretty obvious which one you have to pick. Commonmanufacturers of motherboard chipsets include, and.Once you have the name of your chipset, you have to find the right driver.The best drivers you can get are the 'latest and greatest' drivers which canbe downloaded from the website of the manufacturer of your chipset. Thosedrivers are often more recent than the drivers you can download from themaker of your computer or motherboard. The process of installation is usuallyquite simple. You just download a file,it if it's a,and then run it.
For most chipset drivers, you do not need to uninstall yourold chipset drivers before installing the new ones. The cases where you needto uninstall first are noted in the table below. Be sure to read anyinstructions on the download web page or in a readme file in case its stepsare different than the ones listed below.If you're installing a new operating system from scratch then Windows willuse default chipset drivers to get your system running. Those defaultdrivers have limited functionality.
Generally, the first thing to do onceWindows is up and running is to install the chipset drivers. It's best toinstall chipset drivers before anything else because some of your motherboarddevices won't appear until after the chipset drivers are installed. In mostcases things will still work if you install chipset drivers later, butgenerally speaking, it's best if they're installed first.If you're updating an AGP driver then it may be referred to by many differentnames.
It may be called the AGP driver, AGP miniport, or GART driver.Keep in mind that most driver updates work perfectly but sometimes things cango wrong. You should only be doing this if you currently have problems. Ifyou want to play it safe, then you should make a system restore point (asexplained ) before fiddlingwith your drivers.
Then if something goes wrong, you can roll Windows back tothe state it was in before you got into trouble. To install most drivers, youmust have administrator rights. Explains how to make sure you have the appropriate priveleges.It's also a good idea to disable your anti-virus software before changingdrivers.Chipset MakerChipset Driver InstructionsAMD & ATIAMD/ATIAMD bought ATI in 2006. Before that both AMD and ATI made chipsets.After they became one company the naming got confusing. Now you canfind the same chipset referred to by two names: the more common ATIname, and a completely different AMD name. Sadly, AMD's support site isa mess of confusing searches, broken links, redirects which snatchdefeat from the jaws of victory, and varying strategies for updatingyour drivers. There are four sections below which explain the chipsetdriver update procedure for the various cases.
Take a look at how shortthe explanations are for all other brands of chipsets. AMD's is a mess.If you have a newer chipset then it's usually not that difficult toupdate your chipset drivers. If you have an older chipset then you mayneed a bit of patience to get it done.For all but very old chipsets, AMD produces unified chipset driverswhich support many chips in the same package. The package iscalled the 'Southbridge/IXP Driver' or just 'Southbridge Driver'. AMDsometimes uses the term IXP to refer to southbridges. This is thedriver you need to find in most cases. You may be asking, 'Fine, butwhat about the northbridge?'
Some of the AMD southbridge drivers alsoinclude a northbridge driver which you can see in the unpackeddirectories after running the installer. I don't have an AMD chipsetmotherboard to prove that the northbridge driver is actually installed.But the northbridge driver is in some of the driver packages so Iassume that's where they put it when one is needed. If you go lookingfor 'chipset drivers' on a motherboard maker's website, they'll aim youat one of these AMD southbridge driver packages.
So this is the'official' way of doing it on an AMD chipset motherboard.Very old AMD chipsets: AMD 750 or 8000 seriesIf your chipset is AMD-751, AMD-761, or AMD-762 then you should try. Unfortunately, this sort of page has been disappearing orbecoming inaccessable on AMD's site so I don't know how long that linkwill work. If it's gone then goandunder the 'Chipsets' section click 'All Chipsets'. The 'Drivers &Downloads' tab on the next page contains a list of all drivers. Yoursare in there.
If you have an AMD-8151 then startandunder the 'Chipsets' section click 'All Chipsets'. Then go to the'Product' drop down list near the top of the page and select 'AMD 8000 series'and click the 'Submit' button. The 'Drivers and Downloads' tab containsyour drivers (and a few which don't work for your chipset).The easiest way to update your chipset drivers is to install the 'AMD DriverPack' for your chipset. Version 1.30 is for the AMD 750 series andVersion 2.3.0 is for the 8000 series. The driver packs contain thevarious drivers for your chipset including an AGP driver.
The packautomatically figures out what operating system is running and installsthe drivers for the chips in your system. If you need the AMD 750 AGPdriver for Windows XP then you'll have to load the separate Windows2000/XP AGP driver because the Driver Pack doesn't support XP. Keep inmind that these chipsets are very old and don't support the most recentoperating systems very well. New operating systems (if they run at all)will have to make do with their built in drivers. These drivers haven'tbeen updated for years anyway so new operating systems will alreadyhave the most recent drivers built in.Motherboards made with both AMD 750 and AMD 8000 series chipsets oftendidn't use AMD's southbridge chips.
The AMD driver packs only updatethe drivers for AMD southbridge chips. If your motherboard uses anotherbrand of southbridge then you'll need to find the drivers for thesouthbridge and install them for a full update.
Many AMD 750motherboards used VIA southbridge chips. In that case you can get theHyperion 4in1 driver from VIA as described in theand install everything but the AGPdriver. Download your driver(s), run them, and reboot when you're done.Old AGP chipsets: IGP 320, IGP 330, IGP 340, 9000 IGP, 9100 IGPThese AGP chipsets have two drivers to update: the GART driver for yournorthbridge, and the southbridge driver. Depending on how you search,your drivers can be anywhere from very easy to find to totallyimpossible to find.These drivers are old so they don't change anymore. I'd give you adirect link to your driver but AMD's site redirects it to their'bandwidth leech'page which refuses to allow a download. AMD: service with a snarl.Your best shot for finding the GART driver is to try. If that link still works then you'll see your GART driver.And the release notes link actually works rather than being broken asit is on many pages.
If the link doesn't work then go toand try the 'Download Drivers' area in the upper right-hand corner.Under 'Component Category' select 'Motherboard/Chipset'. Then under'Operating System' select 'Windows 2000 Professional'.
Do that even ifyou're running another operating system. If you search for it under anyother Operating system then you won't find it. Then under 'Product Model'select 'Radeon 9000 IGP' no matter which chipset you actually have.Then click 'View Results'. That GART driveris actually good for all the AGP chipsets above and works for Windows98, 98SE, ME, 2000, and XP. Download the GART driver and run it.If you're running Windows 2000 or XP then the South Bridge Driver onthat same page will probably include your southbridge. The releasenotes give a list of the supported chips. If your southbridge chip isin the list then download the South Bridge Driver, run it, and reboot.If your southbridge isn't listed or you need Windows ME or older(perhaps time to upgrade?) then you'll have to try to dig some olddrivers off of the Internet.
AMD's sitedoesn't seem to have them anymore.Chipsets withoutlike AMD 770/790If you go searching for chipset drivers for the 770X, 790X, or 790FX onthen it will return a very short list which doesn'tinclude any drivers. That's annoying. And after checking through plentyof Catalyst unified drivers I have yet to find one which lists the770X, 790X, or 790FX as supported in the release notes. So the only'official' source of chipset drivers for these chipsets appears to bethe manufacturer of your computer or motherboard. You can find yourmotherboard info in CPU-Z just above where it lists your chipset andsouthbridge.' Unofficially', the 780G and 790GX both havebut are from the same chipset family as the 770X, 790X, and 790FX. If you run adriver package for the 780G or 790GX then it will presumably have theappropriate drivers for your chipset.
I don't have the hardware to testthis but it appears to be the case. The 780G and 790GX are morecommonly called the Radeon HD 3200 and Radeon HD 3300. You don't need toworry about whether to get HD 3200 or HD 3300 drivers because all the onesin this family share a common driver. Just look for drivers for RadeonHD 3300 series and follow the instructions from.Of course, this would be much easier if AMD would just list chipsetdrivers for the 770X, 790X, and 790FX.AMD/ATI chipsets with(almost all AMD/ATI chipsets are this case)All you need to do is find the southbridge drivers for your chipset.The easiest way to find your driver will work for most but not allpeople. Start and search usingthe 'Download Drivers' section in the upper right of the page. Under'Component Category' select 'Motherboard / Chipset'. Then go to'Operating System' and select yours.
Then under 'Product Model' selectyour chipset. Unfortunately, the 'Product Model' list only uses themost common name for the chipsets and it doesn't include all chipsets.But most of you will find your chipset in that list. If yours waslisted then click 'View Results'.If the easy way didn't work for you then you'll have to do the moregeneral search.
Startand look at the 'Chipsets' section. If you see your chipset listed therethen click it. If not then click 'All Chipsets' and then select yourchipset from the list which appears under 'Product'. That 'Product'list is the most comprehensive list of their chipsets under both AMDand ATI names. Click the 'Submit' button and then your drivers willappear in the 'Drivers & Downloads' tab below the 'Submit' button.Now find the 'Catalyst' driver for your operating system. It may becalled the 'Catalyst Display Driver', 'Catalyst Component Downloads',or something similar. You're not actually going to install a.That's just where they store your chipset driver.
Get the latestdriver for your operating system. It's the one with the most recentdate. If you see a 'Legacy' driver, that's an old version of thedriver.Click the driver you'd like to try. That will take you to a page whichincludes all kinds of drivers. You'll find the southbridge driver under'Individual Downloads' or 'Additional Downloads'. Download your driver,run it, and reboot.IntelStart.If you're dealing with an ancient chipset like the 430 or 440 then you'll firstneed to click 'Discontinued Products' at the right of the 'Finddownloads by product name' section. Under 'Select a productfamily' click 'Chipsets'.
Then under 'Selecta product line' click 'Desktop Chipsets' or 'Laptop Chipsets'. Then under'Select a product name' you'll see a list of chipset names. For olderchipsets you'll see some semblance of the full chipset name. For example,the good old Intel 875 is listed as the Intel 875P. But for newerchipsets you'll just see '3 series' or '4 series'. Those list entries areactually the first digit of the full chipset name.
The '3 series'includes the G31, G33, G35, P31, P35, Q33, Q35, X38, and possibly others.There's lots of them. So if you've got a P45 then you should select the'4 series'. Once you've clicked your entry under 'Select a product name'you'll be taken to a new page which lists the downloads. Find your operatingsystem under 'Select an Operating System' and click it.
Intel Chipset Driver Install
The driveryou're looking for is the'INF update utility'. That list will often include olderdrivers.
Just get the one with the most recent date. There are usuallytwo versions of the INF update utility available: one is a,and the other is a.EXE file. Ignore the.ZIP file and get the other one.It's easier to deal with. Download it, run it, and reboot.NVIDIANVIDIA's motherboard chipsets are called 'nForce' and are referred to bytheir first digit.
So if you have an nForce 790 chipset then you select'nForce 7 series'.Start.Go to the 'Product Type' box. If you have an oldnForce 1 through 4 series chipset then select 'Legacy' otherwise select'nForce'. Then go to 'Product Series' and select the one for yourchipset series. If you have an nForce 4 series or newer then under 'Product' selectyour chipset.
If you see a 'Download Type' box then select'Driver'. Go to the 'Operating System' box and select yours.Click the 'Search' button. That will take you to the nForce driver whichincludes all of your drivers. Download the driver but don't run it yet.NForce drivers are a little different from most other chipset driversin that you are supposed to uninstall the old drivers before installingthe new ones. You do that just like uninstalling any regular program.Go to the Windows Control Panel.
In Windows XP and earlieropen the 'Add/Remove Programs' window. In Vista it's called 'Programs andFeatures'. Uninstall the 'NVIDIA Windows nForce Drivers' and reboot.Now execute the new driver you downloaded and reboot again.ULi(ALi)Start andfind the integrated driver for your chipset and operating system. Thedriver with the highest version number is the most recent.
How To Download Chipset Drivers
Download theULi integrated driver,it, run it, and reboot.SiSStart and select youroperating system in the top box. Then the center box will displaya list of the various things you can download for that operating system.If you're trying to solve an AGP problem then select 'AGP (GART)Driver'. There are also other kinds of drivers like audio drivers, IDEdrivers (for hard disks and optical disks), sound drivers, networkdrivers, etc. Download whichever ones you need to solve your problem.Once you select a kind of download in the center box, another listwill appear in the bottom box.
In some cases it will be a list of thespecific chip names whose drivers you can download. The AGP driver is aunified driver which covers most of their chipsets. Make your selectionin the bottom box and then click the 'Go' button. Download the driver,it, run it, and reboot.VIAStart.Under 'Step 1' select your operating system type which is 'MicrosoftWindows' for almost all of you.
How To Install Chipset Drivers
Under 'Step 2' select your specificoperating system. Under 'Step 3' select 'Hyperion Pro (4in1) chipsetdrivers'. That takes you to a page with your drivers.Along with the Hyperion Pro drivers, some older operating systems alsolist 'Retro chipset VIA 4in1 drivers' which may give higher performancewith certain older chipsets which they list. Unless you have a very oldmotherboard you should download the Hyperion Pro drivers.If you're not sure which to use then just get the Hyperion Pros.They work for all chipsets. Download the,it, run it, and reboot.Video card information.Power supply information.Random stuff.Copyright © 2005 - 2010 by Mark Allen.