fabyak wrote:See what you can achieve when you challenge a terminally bored fabyak
Here's a challenge that's been stumping us for weeks then: how do you get Windows 2000/XP (either is good) to work on a Fujitsu Siemens Li 1705 laptop?
Achieve away, because we've got 25 of them that are useless with Fista on them.
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Set to boot from USB device and use a USB (or firewire) CD drive and then boot from either an XP SP2 rollup disc if you have one, XP disc or remote image (i.e. ZenWorks, Ghost) and make sure if you boot from CD that you have any additional hard disk drivers available for when you need to stab F3 at the start to add extra stuff
Or failing that, build a machine up to the latch level you want it/ applications you want and so on, install the drivers for the laptop onto this image and then Sysprep it and seal it, then once the machine has shut down copy the entire contents of the disk (Ghost is v useful for this) onto the laptop disk (you may need to use a convertery thing of some kind if you need to hook the laptop disk into a desktop PC) then once it is copied just plug the laptop disk back in and Robert should be your mothers brother
*ruffles Hehulks hair* awwww, he thought I meant give him a laptop rather than a ferocious buggering, looks like he has far too much faith in 5punkind
*prepares Clockwork Orange style 'education'*
Nice work there Fab, and the first problem we encountered was that we couldn't even get Windows to install. We've gotten around all that though but the drivers are proving a massive pain. I should have gone into more detail really but I expected you to laugh at me
Installed Windows by hitting F5 during the RAID setup bit and selecting some option I can't remember off the top of my head (C-something). I got the touchy mouse thing to work by flashing the BIOS, and I've downloaded the Chrome 6 VGA drivers and they work. Problem is Fujistu haven't released any drivers for anything other than XP, and the VIA drivers for the chipset and southbridge don't seem to work. This leaves me with no USB support and no audio (and a few other things like networking and Wi-Fi, but they're not important).
I've registered with the Fujitsu tech forum but the jack moderators there are dragging their arse about confirming me. There's actually a thread on the subject there too, but nobody seems to have had any success yet.
Hmmm, not seen those chipset drivers before so I'l check that out. The audio drivers are the ones I came to the conclusion are the correct ones, but don't seem to work. Might do after I've got the chipset drivers working though (if they work).
Split from CSS thread is it was getting a bit beyond a tangent.
Hyperion Pro 511 driver = big bag of fail.
I'm currently SPing windows up in case that has any effect. Is there such a thing as generic USB drivers that'll work on just about anything? That way I'll only really have to worry about audio (and they'll at least be usable, we'll just get complaints that they can't watch DVDs).
