2300 Vista Drivers Anyone?

Anyone here by any chance still have a copy of the Vista Drivers that used to be available on the averatec.com website? Apparently, I've misplaced my CD with these drivers and was thinking of trying out Vista again. And the new Trigem site does not seem to offer this for some weird reason! If someone can point me in the right direction, your assistance will be deeply appreciated

 

Try this site:
http://driverscollection.com/?H=AV2370HM1E-1&By=Averatec

 

I have listed below the drivers am currently using on my Everex ST5340T (identical to the 2370/2371). All are running stable. (upgrading to the Everex R1.9 BIOS firmware (search this site) is highly recommened if you are going to run Vista on your Averatec) After downloading the installation files, I suggest A- disconnect from the network, B- disable your realtime anti-virus scanning (ditto for anti-spyware if running realtime), C- turn off the UAC. And remember to turn this stuff back on before reconnecting to the network.

Nvidia Motherboard:
click here for download
note: deselect the video driver from the installation list, use the one listed below.

Ralink wireless:
click here for download
Note: USB(RT257x/RT2671), and I stop the Ralink utility from autoloading, and just use Vista's tool.

Realtek HD audio:
click here for download
Note: Accept terms, on next page download Vista Driver (32/64 bits) Driver only (ZIP file). You sometimes have to play with the listed mirror sites to obtain the best download speed.

Nvidia Go 6100 video driver:
Because of notebook specific features, you cannot grab just any Nvidia Go 6100 driver for the ST5340T. The Vista driver available from Everex is quite old now. I have been running an alternate Vista Go 6100 driver for a few months now with no problems.

This driver is specifically for the HP G6040EG Notebook PC. It is Nvidia Go 6100 driver 167.43, dated November 7, 2007 (released by HP on February 4, 2008.) click here for download (Nviida is up to version 175.24, but I have yet to find a newer and reliable video driver that fully supports our ST5340T)

HP's site says this update "Improves display quality and compatibility with games and DVDs" It is a 133MB download. (but keep in mind, this is NOT going to magically turn your ST5340T into a great gaming machine)

You also have to use an alternate installation procedure. The Installshield mechanism will determine you are not doing this on an HP notebook and will automatically abort.

Download the file and run it to expand the installer to a folder of your choice.

Then open Vista's Device Manager. Open up the current listing for the Go 6100 display adapter, go to the driver tab and select Update Driver.

Do not allow Vista to automatically search. It should go to a listing of currently installed drivers, select the Have Disk option and browse the the folder you created above. Tell Vista to install the driver from that location.

Your screen will likely go crazy at some points as the driver change occurs. Reboot when done.

The older Vista drivers ARE available from Trigem. You will need the touchpad driver and the card slot driver from this site. Go to www.Averatec.com, then when the TriGem site appears, switch to the Korean site (upper right corner), click on the laptop, then select the 2300 series & Vista 32 bit. Any of the notebooks in this list go to the same set of drivers. To "read through" the Korean, in IE pointing at the driver download the file name will show in the status bar at the bottom of the browser. These file names are pretty much self-explanatory to English speakers.

 

Appreciate the link beut. Unfortunately, it looks like download speeds are slow and there're download limits. After downloading the video driver, it said Download limit reached; wait 30 minutes before next download.

Thanks again Jim. I got to thinking late last night that you'd mentioned the Everex ST5340T to be virtually an identical twin; a search of Everex's site brought up the page with the drivers. Used them and it works fine so far. Did run into an issue with the RaLink Wireless Card Drivers; downloaded it from their website and works fine. Also downloaded the latest chipset drivers from nVidia. Have not yet used the Everex 1.09 Bios with Vista. With Vista already activated now on the the Averatec R1.04 Bios, will changing the Bios to the Everex now cause an issue with activation?

 

If this is the only system change, it should not trigger a reactivation - even if it does due to accumulated changes, it should still be possible to do it via a couple mouse clicks.

 

Sounds good Jim. I have the Everex 1.09 Bios downloaded. Had the dreaded sleep issue on the 2370 earlier this morning and took me about 3 hours to get it back on. I'll give the BIOS update a shot later this evening - having fought with this thing for almost half a day, I'd hate for anything else to go wrong this beautiful Monday . Must say - even with a memory upgrade to 2X 1GB DDR2 PC2-5300 667MHz memory upgrade, Vista Ultimate SP1 still seems sluggish compared to WinXP MCE SP3. I know you'd mentioned in the past that on some occasions, with your memory upgrade and a HDD Upgrade, you felt that Vista was running comparably faster than XP in some situations, and that you'd tweaked the registry and hdd as well. Any insight on what tweaking software you used, or what specific tweaks you'd implemented? I have Vista Manager on my system, but haven't yet messed with it much. Any pointers are appreciated. Thanks in advance, as usual.

 

First of all... without installing the R1.09, your CPU speed is fixed at half-speed (you can manually jigger it with 3rd party software, but not have it 'speed float' as designed. That alone makes Vista look bad compaired to XP.

Next, check which programs autostart at boot time, bet you don't need half of them to preload anything before you actually need the software.

Next, run the Vista readiness tool from Microsoft. It will identify stuff that may not be fully compatible with Vista. If ya gotta, ya gotta, but otherwise upgrade or remove. The list of system drivers I provided earlier in this thread are much more nimble and stable than the ones posted on the OEM sites.

Turn off Microsoft's built-in defragging tool by disabling its automatic scheduler. Don't use it period. I suggest Auslogics' defragger or some folks use jkDefrag (both are free). Which ever, stick with only one defragger.

Are you REALLY savvy at understanding how your PC works? If so, consider using a Registry cleaning tool and MANUALLY inspecting each and every action proposed by the tool. And ALWAYS back up your Registry before allowing changes to happen.

Defrag your Registy. Auslogics has a free tool to do this too.

Clean out junk files. MS' built-in tools do an okay job. If you are anal, you can use tools like CCleaner to do even more... just be careful, or you will delete things that you really shouldn't ought to do.

Use Winbubble ( http://unlockforus.blogspot.com/2007/10/windows-vista-unlocks-news-tips-and.html). Turn off user interface stuff you don't care about, and in particular shorten the response delay time for menu actions.

Update, cleanout, defrag. It takes me about an hour every month. I also regularly refresh my drive image backup. Note that I did all of this same stuff in XP too, so there really is no extra burden in properly maintaining a Vista system.

 

That's some good information Jim, although a few of the things you mentioned, I've already been doing both on XP and Vista. For example, I religiously use MSConfig to turn off services and startup items I don't need, using Mangement console to disable services, reducing visual elements to a median point and even on occasion, turning off themes all together. And yes, I've used CCleaner in the past with XP and also, another simple tool ATFCleaner.

Additionally, I used Vista Manager to tweak up settings such as Menu Speed, disable drive optimization, cleaning up cache files on exit, etc. While I consider myself being fairly competent with registry modifications [having been an IT Consultant and a Network Engineer for 18 yrs now], it is still an area that I don't pay as much attention to as I should. I will research and try out some Registry Cleaners.

The parts of Vista where I notice considerable delay is when I'm at work, and we are in a network environment, using Shared folders and printers [non-domain based], simple tasks such as opening a network resource, printing to a network printer, etc. takes almost forever [30 seconds or more for a resource to respond] while on XP, it's near instantaneous - 2 or 3 seconds at most. Other areas where I notice significant slowdown is processor intensive applications such as when I'm burning a DVD Video or using Nero for DVD Backups, the time taken on Vista for a comparable task is almost 1hr - 1.5hr longer than what it takes on XP with the exact same application, and for a comparable task. The application I use is Nero 8. Even lesser intensive applications such as iTunes runs considerably slower on Vista as compared to XP. Maybe I just don't have it tweaked right? In either case, I think for the n'th time, I'm headed back to XP. I will keep all your input in mind for future reference when the bug to give Vista one more shot surfaces as I'm sure it will .

 

I go back to the same thing - move to BIOS R1.09. The ACPI code in R1.04 & R1.05 is incorrect and prevents Vista from fully using your notebook's resources.

My notebook moves daily between a corporate and a home network. Because it belongs to me personally, my notebook is not part of the corporate domain - but this is something of a fiction because I do have a domain login and use it to map network drives and printers. (FYI- I run Vista Ultimate, so I can setup persistent mappings ... however, if you use a 'home' version of Vista you can still map network drives and printers. But these will not be persistent...the workaround is to create a batch file with the appropriate 'NET USE' commands. The problem here is that your password will be stored in the clear within the batch file...and when you change your domain password, you must also manually edit the batch file.)

Getting to my main point (at last). I see no such slowdowns accessing network drives or printers (Server 2003 based network) with Vista. My home network is comprised of a wireless router, a second wireless access point, two IP based wireless webcams (security), a network laser, a network all-in-one, and 3 other XP based computers - one of which is a Sony notebook missing its LCD (it manages those cameras and I access it via Remote Desktop). Again, no problems.

One of my DVD apps (Roxio) made the jump from XP to Vista - any burn speed difference is not noticible.

You need R1.09 with Vista.