wheeeee, notebooks!

BlackMage

so, there's this compaq presario c300 (c302NR to be precise) that i have been charged with provisioning. provisioning involves:
1 - turn it on to make sure everything's in the case
2 - grab windows xp company corp volume licence cd, read: legal (for real this time)
3 - inform windows installer that it is to nuke any and everything while installing
4 - grab coffee while windows installs
5 - end world hunger, bring world peace, figure the total number of licks to get to the center of a tootsie pop
6 - install drivers
7 - turn in notebook
8 - collect pay

the problem lies with steps 3 and 6, while installing windows i baleeted the compaq emergency recovery partitiony thing (never had to use it before, big mistake) and the drivers located within. the audio and video drivers are nowhere to be found on their support site (the conexant hidef audio controller listed seems to not be the one i need) and the support staff is not being very supportive. also, the support site doesn't list the type or model numbers of the devices so i can't find the vendor's drivers and windows' device manager lists all devices as "generic pci thingamadoodle"

the following replies will be met with much love and mitteny goodness:
- make and model of the audio and/or video controllers in a presario c300/c302NR notebook
- links to drivers of the above

the following are assumed and, therefore, do not need to be posted:
- mage is a nub
- mage should have left the recovery partition intact
- mage is a nub
- mage needs mittens

the following replies will be met with hate and ... more hate:
- use the cd (dont' have it)
- use the recovery partition (nuked)
- check compaq's website (wrong/missing drivers)
- check vendor's website (can't find vendor)

edit: got some links out of comaq's tech-support chat-y thing. time to see if any of them work (amazing that they're not listed under driver downloads for my notebook)
also, the conexant audio seems to have needed a dependency installed that it failed to inform me of ...
i hope the next notebook i have to work on is a toshiba, at least they have their softwares in order.

edit2: video drivers work, installing audio driver dependencies...

Quaunaut

Edit: That obviously has audio(first link): <a href="http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?os=228&lc=en&cc=uk&dlc=en&product=3289282&lang=en" target="_blank">http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwar...282&lang=en</a>

As for Video...(searching)

Edit: I understand thats their website, but I figured maybe the UK one wasn't as bad. And it was easy to find, and BM has never been too mean.

BlackMage

so, got everything working ... interesting that they don't put the drivers for the laptop on the "hay guys, download drivers for your computermachine here!" page. had to sit through tech support and wait for them to dig up the links.

lessons learned: that silly partition has a purpose. amazing.

things that annoy me about compaq: they don't list drivers on the driver page, drivers don't come packaged with dependencies or something to grab them or a notice informing you of the prerequisite, drivers have dependencies, product page doesn't list part names, parts don't ID themselves to windows to make driver acquisition slightly less painful, shiney screen makes operating system in a room with inconveniently placed light fixtures painful on the eyes.

also, huggles and cookies and mittens for quan.

Caboose

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things that annoy me about compaq: they don't list drivers on the driver page, drivers don't come packaged with dependencies or something to grab them or a <b><!--coloro:#FF0000--><span style="color:#FF0000"><!--/coloro-->notice informing you of the prerequisite<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc--></b>, drivers have dependencies, product page doesn't list part names, parts don't ID themselves to windows to make driver acquisition slightly less painful, shiney screen makes operating system in a room with inconveniently placed light fixtures painful on the eyes.

also, huggles and cookies and mittens for quan.
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SoftPaq Number SP32646, "Microsoft Universal Audio Architecture (UAA) Bus Driver for High Definition Audio," (or later) must be installed on the notebook before installing this SoftPaq. Look for SP32646 (or later) on the Software and Driver Downloads section of the www.hp.com website.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

I know you said you were a nub, but I'd expect you to RTFM <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />

Although, I recently had the same problem with my HP laptop, same company after all. Ended up installing some random package from realtek after googeling, then seeing that Sys Req's on HP's site. Yea, I are hypocrite.

Then again, I got everything but the wireless drivers working in Linux prior to even installing XP on it. Only reason XP is here to begin with.

BlackMage

psh, rtfm. they should know nobody does that. plus, the error message for "dependency not installed" is "error: device not found." i blame compaq (for my inability to read).

Lt_Patch

6 - install drivers

Wouldn't really make too much of a difference if the installation that was originally on that laptop wasn't either 2k, or XP. Drivers won't install, and if I remember rightly, Compaq don't label their drivers very clearly, something stupid like CQ489134, instead of "Onchip VGA Driver"