XP on a compaq computer with a dell disc?

Question

ok, i need help. my brother thought that if he used my Dell Dimension XP disc on his Compaq Presario, he'd be able to reformat his computer, and it worked almost the way he wanted it to. i had to go in and download a video driver for it, but now we found out his sound card has no driver and is not detected. my friend has a Compaq Presario as well, but he still has the original installation, and i was wondering if i could just use a jump drive or something along those lines to transfer all of his system files to my brothers computer. if not, is there anywhere i can get a Compaq Presario XP installation CD?

Answer 1

If you install and run DriverMax at http://www.drivermax.com/, it will scan your system and allow you to download the latest drivers for every component, including the sound card. It's a kind of complicated program, but once running all you do is find where it says "scan and update drivers" or something like that and then it will open a webpage which shows a list of drivers for each of your components and find the one for the sound card, click the little download floppy image, open it with Drivermax, wait for it to download, which may take some time, and then click on it and click install and then click install again on the window that pops up, confirm, and then wait while it installs, which won't take but a minute.

Answer 2

Just go to compaq website and download the drivers (will be in the support section) for his make/model and  install drivers .

simple

Answer 3

Just go to compaq website on a working pc, and download the drivers for his make/model onto a flash drive.

Move the flash drive to the compaq, install drivers as normal.