Laptop greif.

[_Iain_]

Doing my nut...Cant get any of the drivers anywhere for the damn thing!!

Apparently at some stage within the last year it's become completely impossible to download drivers without paying for them - contacted Hi-grade customer support, who offered to send me a CD for a tenner?

Laptops a Hi-grade VA250 D...if anyone can help it'd be much appreciated!!

(laptop was a skip find, it doesnt have a keyboard & its a miracle it still runs tbh! not spending a penny on it!!)

[G]

Have you got windows installed already? Presuming you're using windows, of course.

If so, you should be able to get some good clues by getting the ID number from device manager.

Search for this and I suspect they'll all be generic bits of hardware used in other products.

[fatpies]

If all else fails.

Download Unbuntu and install it on a USB stick.

Though Unbuntu is getting pretty fat these days, it burst through the 1gb size about 6 months ago.
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[el_oso]

have you tried mint 12 with KDE?
i liked KDE back in the day but think it has gone to shit in the last few years. then the same thing happened with gnome 3, but mint seem to have rescued it
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[Rogerborg]

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[duhawkz]

Assuming your running windows

try something like drivermax see if it can detect the make/model of the hardware in it then you can download the drivers the hardware vendor directly

https://download.cnet.com/DriverMax/3000-18513_4-10572602.html
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[_Iain_]

Two drivers a day is a bit shit, however i've got sound back!

big thanks duhawkz & everyone else who's given input.

[Alpha-9]

lol paying for drivers.


Most laptops come with factory restore discs because of how cuntish it is to find the drivers for them

Try everest ultimate edition.

[_Iain_]

My shed of a laptop part two:

It's now decided that it recognised my iPhone as being there, it recognises that its connected. However when network bridged with the unused LAN (the setup that was working FINE last night...) No go.

Ask itunes about it however and it registers itself as having a connection to the internet, whereas chrome and IE say nowt.

Honestly im beginning to think it might be a better bet to get an ebay special that's actually got a keyboard...and wifi...and all the USB ports working...etc etc

[Seb]

Uploading drivers now, I'll link them when I get back from work later. Only got the 32bit drivers for that machine but if nothing else, they will give you an idea of what you need. The graphics chip in that thing is an S3 unichrome if that helps in the mean time.

*edit* If I remember right, that chassis has the wifi switched off by default when you power it up. Fn and F2 or thereabouts will get it going.
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[Seb]

https://www.mediafire.com/?3a2s7c2k78inu6v

As ever, they are from my driver bank but virus scan away to be safe.
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