Help pls - a8j drivers cd

I need to recover my windows XP before sending to RMA it seems. but I lost my drivers cd and deleted the recovery partition.

MY model is a8js..but I guess any a8j would work just to pass that small bump in instalation.

Can someone make me an iso of it please?

 

You can find the drivers on the Asus website, however making copies of the recovery CD is illegal i believe.

 

1st of all. There's nothing saying I can't copy it. Maybe you've lived my MS rules for too long and started to think that everything that is a copy is illegal .
Looking to my old L5c drivers CD it doesn't say anywhere you can't copy it. Or that has copyrights.
I know I can download the drivers in asus site, however I can't recover from recover cd's.
I have the 2 recover cd's but I don't know where's my drivers cd. And the recover process halts waiting for it.
if anyone knows how can I at least construct a bogus cd to pass that check so that I can manually install the rest of the drivers would be great.
Ty
Joao

 

Umm... not really. I only say that because it's my impressions that the recovery disk has a copy of windows on it and if you were to burn a copy of the recovery disk, you are making an illegal copy of windows as well.

Just force shut down your notebook from the point where it asks for the drivers and manually install the drivers. That's actually one of the ways to do a clean install without all the bloatware too.

 

The drivers cd doesn't have copy of windows. The laptop came with 3 cd's 2 recoveries(with the windows) and a 3rd with drivers and utilities. I have the 2 with the windows. It copies to the disk etc etc, and then asks for the drivers cd which I don't have. When I shut down the computer by force nothing happens after boot. Goes to grub(I only had linux since I bought the computer). But since asus wants me to make the recovery before I send the laptop...even though I kinda refused to accept the windows licence and it's absurd clauses.
I inserted the asus L5c drivers cd, but it says the version is old. So I probably need a bogus cd that says that's the a8js and has no drivers to install(which I have no idea how to do), or the a8js drivers cd which i'm starting to thing that didn't come with the laptop at all.

 

Couldn't you just tell them that and let them deal with the problems? Just let them know you have linux and lost the recovery CDs and driver CD.

 

that's my plan and that's what I said in the phone. But depends on the person on the other side of the phone.. There's a certain guy that never solves a thing(one in five that I talked so far) in the asus call center. He basicly said.I will not make the RMA until you recovered your partition..however after that I've read the warranty and there's nothing about forcing to use the original operative system. I think i'll have to call his boss maybe

 

Is this Asus in the US? You should definately ask to speak to his supervisor. Only removing the CPU and/or GPU will it void any warranties. That one guy you speak of must be new

 

I'm not in US.Europe. That's why I think copying a cd (even a windows one) if you have a license is not illegal.It's dubious law, but you only commit a piracy crime if you sell the copyrighted material. In the member state of EU i'm living in at least.

It's what I'm going to do if he gets to my nerves again.I retested on linux with acpi off, letting the hardware manage the fans and all..and playing games and heavy 3d stuff + heavy cpu usage I have the same result..a slow and rise in both GPU and CPU temperature. I saw the gpu at least at 99 celsius degrees. and the cpu at 96. My girlfriend sony goes tops to 70.
The most surpising thing is, they fixed this exact same problem before without complaints.

 

After my THIRD call the operator "the lottery" gave me, knew what he was doing. He heard everything I said. And sent me a link where to dowload the ISO with the drivers cd. I guess competence is really important!

 

I hate to say this, but there was a very simple solution to this. You could have simply restarted the notebook when it asked for the drivers CD. Then you could have installed drivers and apps manually.

Of course that's not quite a factory recovery, but, would have saved some trouble.

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