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    Useful update software? F3Tc

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by majendie, May 13, 2008.

  1. majendie

    majendie Newbie

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    Hi all!

    I'm new to the forum so please excuse any specific etiquette I may have missed, however . . .

    Is there actually any useful update utility for any ASUS thing anywhere ever? Anyone?

    I am trying to update the drivers on an ASUS F3Tc - from the looks of it, I have to pick and choose from a whole bunch of poorly documented driver files, manually downloading each (from a horrible horrible server - hangs, slow as all hell, corrupted files . . . ) before attempting to install them.

    The one thing that looked like a useful tool, ASUS Live Update basically did nothing . . . I installed it, and all it did was sit there and not do anything. Nothing. At all. It didn't even have words in it's menu . . .

    I'm running Vista SP1, and would LOVE it if there was a simple utility (like those that ship with, well, every other mainstream manufacturers computer in the world) that will actually manage driver updating . . .

    But it seems that I'm hoping in vain here . . .

    So that aside, if it seems to be an impossibility - does anyone have any helpful tips on updating this thing? Or at least a decent mirror of the update files? :)

    I would appreciate any advice, pointing at another thread - whatever works.

    Thanks!!

    - Maj
     
    majendie, May 13, 2008
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  2. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    You're hoping in vain, ASUS Live Update is utter BS. :)

    The only thing to do is download driver files from support.asus.com, from the slow servers...

    Don't download files that have the same or older dates as the drivers on the CD.

    One other thing is to only download drivers for things where it actually helps (e.g., GPU, WLAN, and whatever other interfaces that you use regulary; so e.g., if you don't use BlueTooth there;s little point in upgrading the driver).
     
    E.B.E., May 13, 2008
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