Notes for Installing Averatec 3700 (actually AV3715-EH1 purchased from Sams Club) From Scratch
\nI 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.
\nSo 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.<\/p>\n
\nHere is my experience.
\nI downloaded all the drivers from the support site this is what I found:
\nDirectory of C:\\server\\shared\\KEEPZIPS\\hardware\\averatec
\n08\/20\/2007 12:35 PM <DIR> .
\n08\/20\/2007 12:35 PM <DIR> ..
\n08\/20\/2007 12:20 PM 8,263,680 3700_XP_AUDIO_6_14_01_4090.exe
\n08\/20\/2007 12:19 PM 1,468,416 3700_XP_CHIPSET_5_1_0_3442.exe
\n08\/20\/2007 12:26 PM 13,493,760 3700_XP_LAN_3_44.exe
\n08\/20\/2007 12:23 PM 4,718,080 3700_XP_MEDIA_5_1_2600_0.exe
\n08\/20\/2007 12:24 PM 2,138,112 3700_XP_MODEM_6_09_07_04.exe
\n08\/20\/2007 12:28 PM 4,713,472 3700_XP_Touchpad_5_0_2_1.exe
\n08\/20\/2007 12:20 PM 1,282,209 3700_XP_TRAYICON.exe
\n08\/20\/2007 12:28 PM 4,566,677 3700_XP_VIDEO_6.14.10.171.exe
\n08\/20\/2007 12:35 PM 15,445,504 3700_XP_WLAN_3.0.1.0.exe
\n08\/20\/2007 12:20 PM 570,368 All_XP_MSBack.exe
\n08\/20\/2007 12:25 PM 32,256 cMEdel.exe
\n11 File(s) 56,692,534 bytes
\n2 Dir(s) 81,387,233,280 bytes free
\nI put in the Windows CD and installed normally.
\nI 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
\nI put them in \\averdrv since they sometimes put files in C:\\avertech as they extract.
\nVideo – worked perfectly
\nAudio – took several attempts – this failed completely until I switch to the no spaces path – I had to finally run the install and then
\ntell device manager to update driver at which point it device manager finally found it.
\nChipset – Worked perfectly
\nMedia – Worked perfectly
\nModem – Worked Perfectly
\nWLAN – Failed every time looking for a file :(
\nWindows Update did find the WLAN driver (whew!) and the Ethernet Driver. I never tried to use the provided Eithernet Driver as the
\nEthernet seemed to work right away – I let WIndows Update install the suggested driver over the network.
\nI have not installed the touchpad yet – the default seems fine.
\nUSB was working but only USB 1.
\nMy only remaining unknown devices are a “USB Controller”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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