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Thursday, March 15, 2007

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Asus Vista Driver Info

- Warner Crocker

Several Asus R2H users are reporting issues with the new Vista Drivers once downloaded, and also in finding them. 

First, David Maiden and others are reporting that after installing the drivers they are seeing crashes on boot up. So, be careful out there. (I haven’t had the opportunity to install them yet, but will this weekend.)

Second, the Asus site is notoriously flaky and very poorly designed. A selecton will appear one minute and on the next refresh it won’t be there. If you use the site to display the drivers your best bet to see what is available is this: After you complete the selection process for Asus R2H, use the headings across the top of the page to display the drivers and utilities, not the center of the page drop downs.

Asusdrivers

Third, CTitanic sends me these links to the Asus Drivers that are posted on todoUMPC Magazine.

ftp://ftp.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/R2H/ASUS_Setting_Center_vista _070315.zip
ftp://ftp.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/R2H/Audio_vista_070315.zip
ftp://ftp.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/R2H/CMOS_Camera_Bison_vista_0 70315.zip
ftp://ftp.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/R2H/FingerPrints_vista_070315 zip
ftp://ftp.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/R2H/InfoPen_vista_070315zip
ftp://ftp.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/R2H/VGA_vista_070315.zip

What’s interesting is they contain a link to the sound drivers, which don’t yet appear on the site.

Fourth, Jay has posted in the Asus Forums the links he used to download files. Notice that both lists (Jay’s and CTitanic’s) contain files that don’t appear on the other one.

Looks like this is going to be a bumpy ride. More as it comes to us.

UPDATE: CTitanic has passed along a link to the WLAN driver. Here it is:

ftp://ftp.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/R2H/WLAN_ASUS_WL_159G_vista_0 70315.zip

 

 



3/15/2007 7:29 AM MST  

Asus Vista Driver Info     Comments [7]  |  Digg This |  del.icio.us |  Citations 
Thursday, March 15, 2007 9:28:24 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
Cool! Cheers Warner for those links. The 5 belwo are all new ones I have not been able to access from the support site

ftp://ftp.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/R2H/ASUS_Setting_Center_vista _070315.zip
ftp://ftp.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/R2H/Audio_vista_070315.zip
ftp://ftp.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/R2H/CMOS_Camera_Bison_vista_0 70315.zip
ftp://ftp.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/R2H/FingerPrints_vista_070315 zip
ftp://ftp.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/R2H/VGA_vista_070315.zip

I dont appear to get to all the above to start downloading any files but I will try more when I am at home

I'm going to make a guess here at why I am other users are getting the crashes. I think the settingspage.exe (an perhaps other things) use the ATK01000 (I think its called utilty.

The new ATK01000 utility is nto installed but as the settingspage.exe is obviouly applicable to XP only (Volume and power plans dont yet work with vista) then perhaps the settingspage is not 'wired' into the ATK01000 utilty, and this is what causes the crashes.


its just a theory......well I hope this the only fault
Dave Maiden
Thursday, March 15, 2007 11:55:12 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
Got the drivers installed including a new settings page as I expected .I will report back on the stability as soon as I can.
David Maiden
Thursday, March 15, 2007 5:08:03 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
All new drivers installed. Have rebooted 6 times.... 4 of which times it crashed (Hung) after login.

Im not confident things one going to get better! the is little that I can think left that needs vista drivers from Asus. New sound drivers seem more "choppy"
David Maiden
Thursday, March 15, 2007 5:18:46 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
life frame is now also available.... not that will fix crashes

http://dlsvr01.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/U1F/LifeFrame2_vista_070314.zip
David Maiden
Thursday, March 15, 2007 6:16:26 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
Cant get life frame to open after installation. Seem to be having less crashes since installing fingerprint software . have hod 3 re-boots with no crash now
David Maiden
Friday, March 16, 2007 3:11:55 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
scratches that, the next wo boots were crashes!

I am wondering if others are experiencing crashes since installing the new driver. There is only succefull report over at origami project so far
Dave Maiden
Friday, March 16, 2007 11:12:13 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
ftp://ftp.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/R2H/WLAN_ASUS_WL_159G_vista_070315.zip

missing period in link
.zip
from citanic
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