Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Windows XP on Asus K70AB

This model comes with Red Flag linux pre-installed (console only, no graphics). After installing Windows XP, several components won't have drivers installed: LAN, wireless, sound, video etc. Asus published only Vista and Windows 7 drivers for this model. I found on Asus forums a nice post describing how Windows XP drivers can be installed on Asus K70AB. For the inpatient (and backup purposes), here it is:

01. ATI Graphics Driver V8.610.0.0
http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&model=VGA

02. Audio driver (not necessary to install UAA bus driver if you have XP sp3)
http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&model=N50Vn

03. Atheros AR8121 LAN Driver V1.0.0.33
http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&model=LAN

04. Wireless Console Utility
05. WLAN Driver and Application
06. ATK0100 ACPI Driver
07. ATK_MEDIA Utility
08. ATK_Hotkey Utility
09. ASUS ATKOSD2 Utility
10. ATK Generic Function Utility
http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&model=N50Vn

11. Alcor AU6371 Card Reader driver
http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&model=Card%20reader

12. Elantech Touchpad driver
http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&model=Touchpad

13. Life Frame Utility
14. POWER4 GEAR Utility
15. SPLENDID Utility
16. KB_filter Driver (in others)
17. Camera Driver (Refer to the download site instructions and get PID code first)
http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&model=N50Vn


I did not install all the drivers from above, some of them weren't for my hardware, some I didn't need. Some notes 'thou:

- SM Bus Unknown >> short story: extracted from the Southbridge kit found on ATI website; long story: searched a lot on the internet without luck, downloaded CPU-Z >> found the motherboard on this computer (chipset AMD 780G, southbridge SB700) >> went to AMD support >> choose ATI Catalyst™ Display Driver for Windows Vista/Windows 7 Unified 32-bit - Motherboard/IGP Drivers >> downloaded South Bridge Driver >> extracted SMBus folder somewhere >> open Device Manager >> right-click on SM Bus >> update driver from SMBus folder.

- Unknown device >> ATK0100 ACPI driver from above (step 6)


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