Copying drivers and settings from another hard drive

[Going to Cali]

Hi,

I have a problem. On my old computer, my drivers etc work perfectly. On a new install I get an awful high pitched squealing sound in some games (GTA SA, CIv IV, Fahrenheit) with vsync on. Interesting it doesn't occur when i have the games in a windowed mode. Can anyone think what would cause this noise? ANyway back to my point, i want to copy the drivers over from my other hard-drive, how could i do that. using the installer off the web doesn't work.

 

[rangor gubbins]

the noise is coming from your speakers or from your case?

Downloading and installing the latest drivers off the web is the easiest way.

Is this for an ATI or nvidia (or other) card?

 

[kitten]

Do you have a CRT monitor? Is the noise coming from your monitor?

Drivers have installation scripts that write values to the registry and copy the files to the correct places.. Just copying driver files from one system to another will not work unless the device drivers are already installed and the files copied are of the same version of the previously installed drivers on the target PC. There is no guarantee that a driver install is exactly the same for different versions of the same driver.

In short to be sure the drivers are setup correctly they need to be installed and not just copied to the target PC.

 

[Uriel]

You could install the old hard drive as a secondary drive in the new rig. You can copy stuff across in windows. Drivers will need to be freshly installed though so it's the installation packages you need, rather than the old stuff.

You could alternatively get an ethernet crossover cable ("crossover"'s the important bit) and use it to make a network between your old PC and the new one. Just put the files you need in the shared files folder on your old PC and copy away

Alternatively there's any one of the other myriad ways of networking the PCs, file transfer by CD, DVD, USB Flash drive etc etc...