Notes for Installing Averatec 3700 (actually AV3715-EH1 purchased from Sams Club) From Scratch
I inadvertently messed up my restore partition on my Averatec 3700 so I had to start with a fresh Windows XP :( Also Averatec is a pain in the arse to deal with for out of warranty stuff - I really wanted restore disks but was not about to navigate their tech support maze for out of warranty stuff. ALso I had another working system that I tried to sup using ghost - no luck.
So out come the Windows XP disks and the Averatech tech support web site - they nicely do provide drivers for older hardware - this is great - withouit the sitre I would have been doomed.
Here is my experience.
I downloaded all the drivers from the support site this is what I found:
Directory of C:\server\shared\KEEPZIPS\hardware\averatec
08/20/2007 12:35 PM <DIR> .
08/20/2007 12:35 PM <DIR> ..
08/20/2007 12:20 PM 8,263,680 3700_XP_AUDIO_6_14_01_4090.exe
08/20/2007 12:19 PM 1,468,416 3700_XP_CHIPSET_5_1_0_3442.exe
08/20/2007 12:26 PM 13,493,760 3700_XP_LAN_3_44.exe
08/20/2007 12:23 PM 4,718,080 3700_XP_MEDIA_5_1_2600_0.exe
08/20/2007 12:24 PM 2,138,112 3700_XP_MODEM_6_09_07_04.exe
08/20/2007 12:28 PM 4,713,472 3700_XP_Touchpad_5_0_2_1.exe
08/20/2007 12:20 PM 1,282,209 3700_XP_TRAYICON.exe
08/20/2007 12:28 PM 4,566,677 3700_XP_VIDEO_6.14.10.171.exe
08/20/2007 12:35 PM 15,445,504 3700_XP_WLAN_3.0.1.0.exe
08/20/2007 12:20 PM 570,368 All_XP_MSBack.exe
08/20/2007 12:25 PM 32,256 cMEdel.exe
11 File(s) 56,692,534 bytes
2 Dir(s) 81,387,233,280 bytes free
I put in the Windows CD and installed normally.
I then copied the above installers onto a USB stick and then onto the Averatec. I found they wanted to be in a path withouit spaces so
I put them in \averdrv since they sometimes put files in C:\avertech as they extract.
Video - worked perfectly
Audio - took several attempts - this failed completely until I switch to the no spaces path - I had to finally run the install and then
tell device manager to update driver at which point it device manager finally found it.
Chipset - Worked perfectly
Media - Worked perfectly
Modem - Worked Perfectly
WLAN - Failed every time looking for a file :(
Windows Update did find the WLAN driver (whew!) and the Ethernet Driver. I never tried to use the provided Eithernet Driver as the
Ethernet seemed to work right away - I let WIndows Update install the suggested driver over the network.
I have not installed the touchpad yet - the default seems fine.
USB was working but only USB 1.
My only remaining unknown devices are a "USB Controller".
Posted by csev at September 2, 2007 12:59 PM