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Laptop Help
« on: 06 April 2008, 14:58:50 »
I know its a car forum and thats what I would rather be discussing.

But I tried helping out a mate who couldnt access his laptop, in the end we had to format and after the the windows install (Genuine) he then announced he hadnt got the drivers disk.

So me thinking 3048 members heads are better than 1 that some kind person out there may have a copy of the drivers.

The laptop is an Elonex AL51

Annother code on the lappy is AL51/50-15

I have searched the net and all the usual places like driversguide etc but have come up blank, even the Elonexex site is useless

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Re: Laptop Help
« Reply #1 on: 06 April 2008, 15:51:57 »
Elonex have gone tits up so many times in last 3yrs, that you'd never get them from Elonex now.

I would install XP, then the relevent chipset driver (from Intel/Via/AMD etc) from Intel etc website.  Then Video driver from Intel/Nvidia/ATI/AMD etc as appropriate. Then network card drivers - probably Intel/Realtek/Broadcom, wireless adapters - probably Intel or Broadcom.

The bastard ones are Audio and Modem.
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Re: Laptop Help
« Reply #2 on: 06 April 2008, 15:54:52 »
Cheers

I was trying to avoid all that.

I dont mind helping anyone and going out of my way but with machines like this I don know why I bother at times.
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Re: Laptop Help
« Reply #3 on: 06 April 2008, 16:14:38 »
HI
Go to http://www.halfdone.com/ukd/ and download Unknown DEvices.  Run this & it'll list all devices on laptop incl info down to chip nšs.  You can then use this info to search for drivers.
For example it will list manufacturers  of both audio & modem chips together with chip refs.
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« Reply #4 on: 06 April 2008, 16:18:44 »
Cheers

Will try that
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Re: Laptop Help
« Reply #5 on: 06 April 2008, 16:31:11 »
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Will try that

You may find ver1.2 easier to use than the 1.4beta.
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Re: Laptop Help
« Reply #6 on: 06 April 2008, 17:01:25 »
I don't know if its this one ? http://www.lamsystems.com/lamtop_details/lam_al51.asp  but there are drivers for it here http://www.lamsystems.com/drivers/notebook/al51.asp One beauty of the laptop business is there are only a few people who actually build the damn things, and companies like Elonex, Dell etc buy them and put their own badge on. I remember one 600MHz machine that was sold by Dell, HP and another manufacturer. The case was slightly different, but the guts were the same !.

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« Reply #7 on: 06 April 2008, 17:03:15 »
Many thanks Ken
Will download the drivers later and try them.

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Re: Laptop Help
« Reply #8 on: 06 April 2008, 17:06:46 »
Long winded way .. but might help... :(

If you get Belarc or Aida32 software diagnostic programes, they should be able to read the motherboard / chipset details. It is sometimes easier to find drivers for specific motherboards / chipsets than it is for the makers of the laptops
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« Reply #9 on: 06 April 2008, 18:55:56 »
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Long winded way .. but might help... :(

If you get Belarc or Aida32 software diagnostic programes, they should be able to read the motherboard / chipset details. It is sometimes easier to find drivers for specific motherboards / chipsets than it is for the makers of the laptops

Aida32 now superceeded by Everest Home Addition (Freeware) get it from http://www.majorgeeks.com/EVEREST_Free_Edition_d4181.html

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Re: Laptop Help
« Reply #10 on: 06 April 2008, 19:49:47 »
As I recall the Elonex AL51 was based on a 'Bare-Bones' chassis made by Taiwanese company Compal
The intended CPU was an Intel Mobile type and it was either a 915 or 945 chip set
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Re: Laptop Help
« Reply #11 on: 06 April 2008, 20:58:03 »
Aye, its a small world in the laptop business. FIC used to make a lot, and I keep finding boards in Sony's, Tosh's etc with Hannstar on them!.

 You seem to be in the know, any idea what is actually screwing up all these HP DV 9000's with AMD processors ?. I am going for a short BGA fitting course tomorrow, and have a couple of duff DV boards. If its the graphics chip, I could try changing it and see if it worked.

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Re: Laptop Help
« Reply #12 on: 06 April 2008, 22:03:16 »
I assume you've probably tried this already but if not, an easy way to find drivers is using windows update.  Doesn't always find them all but will surely get a few out the way.  Right click on "my computer", click "properties" then go into the "hardware" tab and find "device manager".  Double click on all the drivers with a yellow question mark on them and ask windows to check for a driver.  Alternatively go to the windows update web page and click on "custom" install then look at the left hand side of the screen for hardware updates.  You might get lucky.
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Re: Laptop Help
« Reply #13 on: 06 April 2008, 22:08:14 »
Windows update is a good idea, but the 1st issue was actually loading LAN drivers to do all the basic stuff.

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Re: Laptop Help
« Reply #14 on: 04 May 2008, 20:02:25 »
Cheers Guys.  All sorted apart from the ATI video driver which doesnt bother me as the lappy is working fine.


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