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    M70Vm-B1 wireless & sound

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Dratak, Sep 9, 2008.

  1. Dratak

    Dratak Newbie

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    I recently got a M70Vm-B1 and of course everything comes with vista now, so i had to format that and install xp, went through the whole sata driver thing and got it to work. Only things that aren't working yet are the wireless and sound, i've installed the wireless console and drivers from the F8Sv XP driver page and no luck. I've tried the drivers from intel website for and still no luck. for the sound i've tried the drivers from F8Sv as well. Any help would be appreciated, i have searched the web for a few days now and can't find anything that works.
     
    Dratak, Sep 9, 2008
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    ravenmorpheus Notebook Deity

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    Go to the device manager, select the items in question and choose update drivers, make it search CD/DVDs.

    I'm assuming like mine it came with a drivers disk, put that in the drive beforehand and it'll then search the disk and install the wireless stuff.

    It'll also install the Bluetooth drivers as well if your missing that function, I can't tell you if that works though as I don't have any Bluetooth devices to test it on but the wireless definitely works - mine shows up as an Intel WiFi Link 5100 AGN in Device Manager, those drivers are on the disk but I got mine from somewhere else I think. Your looking for a file called Intel PROSet Wireless Network Driver 12.0.4.0_x32.exe if you google for it and I think the same file is on the drivers disk you should have (although it could be a Vista version...).

    BTW - you might want to install SP3 first, I found a problem with putting DVDs in the drive - it bsod'd on me until I installed SP3, don't know why and it wasn't with every DVD but the drivers disk was one of them it did it with. And the wireless file will say it needs a newer version of the Windows Installer and MSXML 6.0 if you haven't got them already.

    The sound can be done by going to realteks website (I think that'll be what you're looking for as that's where I got my sound drivers from, which work fine) and downloading the audio drivers from there. You won't be able to get the Dolby Control Center though as that seems to be a Vista only app from what I've been reading. Although the Realtek drivers are on the drivers disk I believe they are Vista ones (well duh the disk is for Vista) and they won't work in XP.

    Personally I'd have left the Vista OS in place and dual booted until I was confident I had XP working fine. ;)
     
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