Hi people - in the madness of searching through google like a loon for this motherboard driver, I came across you site

Basically I have a friend who has a Advent 3217 Desktop (which is around 4 years old) She still had the recovery disk so I ran this doing a full restoration!! which it formatted and reinstalled the lot - well almost the lot!! It somehow has missed the drivers (ethernet and sm bus drivers mainly) so basically it didnt add the mobo drivers!

No problem i thought ill find Advents site and download them... I wish it was that easy!!! I ended up being pointed towards the TECHGUYS! lolol from the dixons group. I explained the situation and they said they could help! By charging her £27 for an update disk

So here I am hoping that one of you great people of this forum might be able to help me out...

Many Thanks



Steve

Yeah this is the problem - Tech Guys are just soooo stupid its unbelievable!!!

They said the disk would work but clearly it doesnt - then they told me theres a update disk which fixes those couple of issues! - but as this PC has never been formatted since new, how would the owner know that they needed to get a recovery disk? - now its 4 years old the tech guys want £27 for the disk!!

Talk about Cowboys!

On another note - SP2 has helped a little bit - removed the SM bus driver issue and GFX drivers (which i expected) but still have no sound/onboard ethernet!! Drivers are incredibly hard to find aswell!

Yeah I will give it a shot - it seems quite a few of that advent generation used this TriGem IT865GE (MS 6743) mobo so they must be somewhere on the net?

Just a quick update!!!

I managed to speak to someone who had made a recovery disk for this model and i found out what drivers were needed for the board - the reason why this TriGem board cant be found is because its branded as an msi Motherboard and only OEM so there never was any drivers issued for it - however Intel 82562EZ drivers worked on the ethernet and CMI 9761 (cmedia) drivers worked for the sound!!

Now to go image this pc and make a proper recovery disk!

Hi i also have the same mobo and identical problems on an old advent 3417. Gonna try the intel driver tonight for the ethernet problem. Thanks for the info =)

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