Today I sold an Asus X51R laptop and after installing Windows XP I put the drivers cd supplied when I come to realize that there are only Vista drivers on it! Man enough is enough, I don't know what those Ms guys are doing for the notebook manufacturing companies, but this Vista propaganda is no good. Not good for the end users, and even worst for us, salesman at pc retail stores >:]
I've downloaded the drivers for XP from the Asus Support site and every driver installed fine except for the audio and the modem. I started to get annoyed with this "right cd/wrong driver" problem, happening to me pretty often lately, when suddenly while searching trough the net, I came across a microsoft hotfix needed for the High Definition Audio to work.
Company: Asus
Product: X51Rseries
Product Number: X51R-AP016
ID: 1A
Problem:
The audio drivers on the cd supplied are perfect, but there is no Microsoft Hotfix for the high definition audio included and therefore windows Xp won't recognize the audio and modem.
Solution:
Hydrogen Audio Forum Post with download link for MS Hotfix KB888111.exe
Download, install the hotfix from the link at the forum and your HD audio and modem driver should be installed fine.
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Friday, May 4, 2007
Acer Travelmate 2490 Wireless Driver XP
Another one bites the dust...
Company: Acer
Product: Travelmate 2490
Product Number: 2493NWLMi
Model Number: BL50
Wireless Adapter: Atheros AR5BXB63
Problem: The driver supplied with the cd gets installed if the instructions provided by acer are followed, but it has an exclamation mark at the device manager so wireless won't work.
Solution:
If you have similar troubles installing drivers on another acer model, you can try different drivers from different models of acer notebooks, and also try the "Don't search" option like I showed in the video if it won't install automatically.
Company: Acer
Product: Travelmate 2490
Product Number: 2493NWLMi
Model Number: BL50
Wireless Adapter: Atheros AR5BXB63
Problem: The driver supplied with the cd gets installed if the instructions provided by acer are followed, but it has an exclamation mark at the device manager so wireless won't work.
Solution:
If you have similar troubles installing drivers on another acer model, you can try different drivers from different models of acer notebooks, and also try the "Don't search" option like I showed in the video if it won't install automatically.
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
MSI Megabook M673 No Audio Drivers?
I don't know what is it with these notebook manufacturers these days, it's like some kind of trend to have at least one driver mistaken/not working on the original driver cd provided. I think maybe if they put contextual ads at their 'download drivers' pages they could double profits. Here is another notebook from MSI to which the original driver cd lacks proper audio drivers. There are audio drivers on it, but they won't match. I've downloaded the ones from the Realtek site and they worked like a charm! Here is the info for the model and the original download page at MSI:
Company: MSI
Product: Megabook M673
Product Number: M673X-011EU (I think the same scenario goes for the M673X-013EU)
Problem:
The original cd provided with the laptop contains audio drivers, but they won't install.
Solution:
MSI M673 Realtek Audio Drivers Download Page
Company: MSI
Product: Megabook M673
Product Number: M673X-011EU (I think the same scenario goes for the M673X-013EU)
Problem:
The original cd provided with the laptop contains audio drivers, but they won't install.
Solution:
MSI M673 Realtek Audio Drivers Download Page
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