What happened to Pionex

[shockz]

Ok.. i'm fixing this computer and its a pionex brand... however I can't find anything on them.

Did they merge with somebody else, go bankrupt? What happened to them. I need to download drivers for it... but i don't know where to get them.

Does anybody know where I could find information on Pionex computers... thanks.

Oh and pionex.com doesn't work either.

- shockz

[gotpitbull]

Don't know if this'll help, but this:

http://www.google.com/search?q=pionex+moth...=utf-8&oe=utf-8

resulted in this:

http://list.driverguide.com/list/OTHER/company1348/

[DigitalN.]

whoah, Pionex? :s

[shockz]

Alright... thanks.

This computer is turning out to be a major pain in the ass.. now I have to find a rockwell modem driver... and just like with pionex they aren't around anymore. The generic ones from conexant (the ones that bought rockwell I guess)... don't work either.:rolleyes:

It doesn't help that this computer is ancient either.

[supernova_00]

do you mean Phoenix

[shockz]

Nope... its Pionex. When I first saw it I thought it was a phoenix too, but it not.

[Garry]

As far as I know they went under.

We sold a load of their PCs, with Technical Support from Pionex, when I worked for QVC, but then they ceased trading so myself a couple of knowledgable colleagues had to set up our own Pionex Tech Support department at QVC and run it until the tech support contracts expired. :(

[psneddon]

When I am trying to find working drivers for hardware like that I usually get the device's PNP codes from the windows registry and use that to find compatable drivers maybee under a different name;

The PCI database is here;

http://www.pcidatabase.com/

And information on getting the device ID's from the windows registry is here;

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default....e20d326.xml.asp

For example - my broadcom modem has the following id string in the registry;

PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_4401&CC_0200

The vender is 14E4 and the device ID is 4401;

This information will be in the windows registry even if it has no drivers. The point is that the hardware might have actually been made by an OEM and rebranded as Pionex

Hope that helps;

Paul

[shockz]

Holy crap! Thanks so much psneddon. Your a lifesaver. :) (Y)