Onboard gfx card driver problem and moving an app from 1 PC to another help

[Cantide~]

My boss asked me to come over his house and reformat his PC, he didn't have the disk that came with it(he bought it for like $85 on ebay) so I decided to bring a copy of xp sp3. After formatting and installing the new OS his ethernet, sound and video drivers(all onboard) are no longer working. In device manager they all have yellow "?"s. Any way that I would be able to fix without the disk that came w/ the PC? Its a 1999~ IBM desktop.

My 2nd question is he has a program on one of his computers that he wants to get rid of and he wants me to transfer it to a usb drive or another computer for him. What would be the best way to go about this? The program is made by a company no longer in business so I can't just re download it, and looking online for it yields no results.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[bungiefan]

Windows programs are not modular, they install dependency files to the Windows folder and the registry. You can't copy them to another machine, you have to run their installer, unless you want to attempt manual installation of hundreds of files and then registering them with the OS.

You have to hunt down the drivers for his motherboard with another computer and then run them on his machine. You can find them with the motherboard model number and a Google search, but a board that old is unlikely to still have drivers posted for download. Machines older than 2004 are fairly hard to find drivers still being hosted by the manufacturer.

[Cantide~]

Ty was pretty much what I had expected.
Anyone happen to have an installer for a program named "ParlayIt" or know of a good program that would replicate it? (might be better off asking in general's sports threads)

[xerodok]

Check IBM's database for their software, they are pretty good at archiving it. If you give me the mobo model number I can probably find everything.