Updating the Drivers on an HP MediaSmart EX470 or EX475

06. Mar, 2009 | by Andrew Edney | 7 Comments

For those of you who have the first version of the HP MediaSmart Server, either the EX470 or the EX475, you may want to update the drivers for the hardware. Now HP don’t actually provide any updated hardware drivers specifically for the HP MediaSmart, but a lot of people want to run either the latest, or are the very least, later drivers than the ones that came with it.

Ed Tittel on his Viz Vista blog has spent some time locating and testing out different updated drivers for the various components of the HP MediaSmart, including the graphics card and network card.

Ed even includes a useful table with download links to the version of the drivers that worked.

To read Ed’s full post, and download those drivers, click here. As usual, before you update any drivers, make sure you are sure you want to do it, and backup anything you need, just in case!

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7 Responses to “Updating the Drivers on an HP MediaSmart EX470 or EX475”

  1. Ed Tittel Reply 06. Mar, 2009 at 2:55 pm

    Thanks for the moral support, Andrew. Hope you’ll find my upcoming story for Tom’s Hardware equally helpful. I love my job: I get to take stuff apart, break it, fix it, tinker endlessly and they pay me anyway!
    –Ed–

  2. devlin19 Reply 06. Mar, 2009 at 7:33 pm

    ed i agree with you

  3. desjar Reply 11. Mar, 2009 at 2:34 pm

    Should i use the xp driver or server 2003?

  4. http://www.driversbag.com Reply 27. Mar, 2009 at 6:54 pm

    great information keep it up

  5. Scott Reply 30. Oct, 2009 at 11:10 pm

    Will these drivers be overwritten by the WHS PP3 that’s coming in December?

    • Andrew Edney Reply 31. Oct, 2009 at 2:22 pm

      Scott

      No, because PP3 is a Windows Home Server specific update where as the drives you are referring are specific to the HP hardware.

      Andrew

  6. Andrew Edney Reply 11. Mar, 2009 at 2:46 pm

    @desjar – you should use the Windows 2003 drivers as that is what Windows Home Server is built on.