For those of you lazy to...

Hey guys. I've been testing out the drivers and such to get the function keys to befriend external sound cards/ usb sound cards. Anyway, in the process, I found that the ASUS support cd for the G1S can be used to our advantage. Some of the drivers were outdated so:

1. I copied the entire contents to my harddrive.
2. Found out which drivers were outdated using the filelist.txt on the cd, google, and the asus site.
3. The auto installer that ASUS provides basically runs the setup.exe files for each driver in a specific order. This order actually guarantees that all the hotkeys will work. I took the updated drivers I downloaded and replaced the old drivers, maintaing the same directories and folder names.

4. Burned onto a cd and tested and everything works fine!

This is actually very easy to do. Just thought I'd share with you guys. By the way, do not get the ACPI drivers from Windows Update! There is a conflct between those and the ATK drivers for the hotkeys. Took me 7 reinstalls of Vista Ultimate to figure this out.

By the way, the system will restart automaticaly after I believe the first 6 are installed and then you will ahve to reintiate the program again and select whatever else you want. At the end, it will ask for you to reboot. Reboot and you are done.

One more word of advice, do not install Wireless drivers with the automated software. It will install an Intel Wireless monitoring utility that will always run and does not provide any benefits. It basically shows you what Wndows Wireless Manager shows you when you check the status of your conection. The Intel program also takes control of regsrvc.exe and this really isn't good. Google regsrvc.exe and you'll get several hits saying that it is a security vulnerability.

 

Perhaps you could host an ISO or NRG of the new driver CD you made and post it here?

Also, if we did install the wireless drivers with the software, how would we remove them afterwards? What should we replace them with?

 

Who's a good host?

Really, not much has changed from the original cd. Updated gfx, sound, atkgenfs, and one other driver.

To remove the Intel Wireless Utility, go to control panel and unistall Intel ProSet. Uninstall everything pertaining to that when it prompts you. Then, go back to the cd, but choose to explore the cd. Go to the wireless drivers folder, should be "WLAN" . Go into the folder and go to the "INTEL" folder in that. Then go to either "Vista32" or "Vista64" and then navigate to the "Drivers" folder. Find the installer "DSPINST32" and run that. This will only install the drivers and not the utility.