Z70VA Live Update

My unit was ordered w/o OS, installed Win2k. I do not see an Asus Live Update ability. The drive CD has Norton Live Update only as far as I can tell. Does anyone have a link to download it?

 

Live Update is on the drivers CD, located under "additional software" I believe it's called.... you could also download it from Asus' site.

 

Cannot find it on my CD identified as follows:
From Exporer
"M6A_M6V_30"

From CD Labeling
"N1250 (A/V/VA)" Driver & Utility Ver. 3.0

From CD Setup Menu
"M6A/M6V Series Notebook PC CD Rev 3.0"

Could not find on ASUS website. Did not know if the LiveUpdate from ASUS covers all motherboards or if you need to install a board specific LiveUpdate.

thanks

 

When the disc autoruns - click on the link for "ATKACPI Utility and Utility" ---- Live Update is usually linked in there.

 

Nope. Choices there are:

WINDOWS FLASH UTILITY
POWERED4GEAR UTILITY
NIS 2005
ACROBAT READER UTILITY
RETURN TO MAIN MENU

 

http://dlsvr03.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/M6VA/Liveupdate_XP_050127.zip

 

Thanks for the link, downloaded. XP only though. I am running Win2k. Guess I am SOL as long as I run W2k. That is probably why it does not show on the CD menu.

 

I will bet you that's why you don't see it on the disc..... because the disc senses what you're running.... I wouldn't use Win2k on the machine or any other laptop for that matter....... so you are SOL and if you have any other issues, preface it with the fact that you're running Win2k.....

The system will work, but nothing is going to work like XP Pro w/ SP2...... there are going to be a lot of issues with Win2k that you may run into and it's important to let people know that's what you're running.

Asus MAY have a Win2k Live Update.... I'm not 100% sure they still support it though.

 

I hear you. (I mentioned my OS in the first post.) I run my business on Win2k and have four other machines in addition to the notebook to keep running. I don't upgrade until I HAVE to because it always opens another can of worms it seems. For the same reason the resellers like to keep everyone on the one latest system (easier to diagonse) I hang back on the technology curve on my business machines. For play I keep a current tech computer with XP but it goes tits up more than my Win2k units - go figure. Call me paranoid.

Advice well taken though, when there is a meaningfull update for XP only I will have to join the Microsoft death march.

Long live the forums.

 

Sorry - you did....

It's not about the resellers..... I mean, yes it's easier to support the same OS, but XP Pro has powrsaving features the Win2K doesn't..... and there are things that will not work in Win2k....... I've gone through this with some hardass customers who insisted on Win2k over a year ago and that was the time we decided to offer the systems with XP Pro or no OS at all..... if they choose Win2k, we weren't going to support it and we couldn't guarentee that they could get all of the functions to work... I'm sure you could understand that from our point-of-view.... but if everything is working well for you... then great.

... as far as meaningful updates go..... all the anti-new OS types say don't upgrade till the first service pack........ Then they all say to be upgraded before the second service pack comes out....... well the second XP service pack has been out for a year now...... I think getting in with this version of XP would certainly be better than getting in with Vista on the ground floor....... but then again I haven't seen the final version of it and who knows........ maybe they actually did work out the bugs on this one?

 

Makes sense.

We could probably go on with war stories on both sides of the upgrade question. Here is an immediate small example of my issue. I run my business on the Goldmine contact management database. An alert out in the Goldmine forums is that a recent XP update messes with Goldmine that requires fixing. OK, $75/hr for a "solutions partner" or I figues it out myself. There goes a weekend. I also backup in part with Acronis imaging. XP users had major issues with latest release of that program. So here I go, the heart (Goldmine) and brain (TrueImage) may go into seizure with XP.

I am staring at a big fat Sharp digital laser/copier - no XP drivers available, now or ever. And employees, going to keep your investment in training W2k GUI? What about new employees that only know XP. And on and on.

I agree that the timing is about right though, XP is certainly maturing. And for anyone starting out in computing it is the way to go. I don't believe in being a pioneer when it comes to business systems because of the arrows in the you know what, but it is also true that waiting too long can make one a pioneer in patching together legacy components.

I think we agree that "it depends". Every user must really sit down and consider what they want to accomplish.

Thanks for the discussion! Hope it helps others.
Isaiah 1:18 *"Come now, and let us reason together..."

 

there are certainly some reasons to stick with what you've got........ but there are very few..... most people who think they're smart say " a friend who knows everything told them to stick with it" ... that's not a good excuse....

Lets just say.. someone like you probably doesn't need tech support on the win2k OS........ I'm surprised about the driver issue though.... like VERY....... Microsoft did a very good job about getting drivers for almost everything...... unless sharp totally got out of the printer business.... I don't understand why there isn't at least *something* by now...

 

Man, you would think. Apparently not in this case. (An this is no $49 unit, nor is it over about 3 years in age.)

http://www.sharpusa.com/products/TypeSoftware/0,1086,20,00.html

Above is the web link. Model AL-1650. They stopped at Win2k.
(Unless it ended up in XP but not on Sharp's site.)
And if you want a real laugh, the Win2k drivers under Win2k don't work right, I have to use the NT drivers.

But, I am hopefull of things improving.

How about a plug and play system for home entertainment system equipment? Now THERE is a business opportunity!

 

There may have been probleme with those programs you mentioned but how many problems? I mean was it just a couple of people, also their configurations may have been different from yours,i ts very hard to compare the outcome in your case of switching to xp unless they had exact same system configuration hardware and software wise. Win2k is good but recently there was a huge problem with security idk if you have heard about a person being able to control your PC only in win2k through the plug and play, which is built into the OS no easy way to fix that and i believe there sitll isn't a fix. I would expirment on a pc that is the same as your company computers and see how both pieces of software act on windows xp pro.