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peter

If windowsxp does not recognize the video adapter, is there any utilities
that may be able to identify the chipset?

My friend has a 5 year old PC (a chembook laptop) and is looking for the
video driver -- after reinstalling the OS.

The laptop maker's web site do not have the exact model number (L3800) in
their driver download list. She downloaded one for a laptop with very
similar model name (3800) but it didn't work.
 
peter said:
If windowsxp does not recognize the video adapter, is there any utilities
that may be able to identify the chipset?

My friend has a 5 year old PC (a chembook laptop) and is looking for the
video driver -- after reinstalling the OS.

The laptop maker's web site do not have the exact model number (L3800) in
their driver download list. She downloaded one for a laptop with very
similar model name (3800) but it didn't work.
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Belarc Advisor - Free Personal PC Audit (version 7.0t)
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html
 
Peter

Video drivers are available from the Chembook website assuming that your
friend is re-installing either Windows 98/ME or Windows 2000..

XP is NOT supported on the L3800 and it is unlikely that your friend will
resolve this.. the best hope is to try out the Win 2000 driver.. if that
doesn't work, re-installing either 98 or 2000 will see the laptop back in
usable working order..
 
peter said:
If windowsxp does not recognize the video adapter, is there any utilities
that may be able to identify the chipset?

My friend has a 5 year old PC (a chembook laptop) and is looking for the
video driver -- after reinstalling the OS.

The laptop maker's web site do not have the exact model number (L3800) in
their driver download list. She downloaded one for a laptop with very
similar model name (3800) but it didn't work.
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I contacted chembook and the support person said that the laptop was a 6300
series (despite the fact that it says L3800 series on the laptop). I tried
the video driver for 6300 series and setup failed with an error video driver
not found.

So, I just thought of another possible solution: the hard disk of this
laptop was backed up months before the crash to an external drive using
tree-copy. The external drive is not bootable, but it must have the video
driver on it.

Is there a way to recover the video driver, or at least the name of the
driver from this backed up drive? Which file should I be viewing?

I will try using belarc or everest as well.
 
I tried Belarc, Everest home, SiSandra -- none of them could identify the
video chipset. They only work if you already have a correct video driver
installed.

Fortunately, windowsXP seems to know the adapter is an ATI mobility radeon
M7 and even knows what files are needed to install this driver -- it just
keeps saying this file is not found, that file is not found. Seems like
someone started to install the driver but quit halfway. Strangely, I could
not find the driver on ATI's web site; maybe I didn't look hard enough.
Fortunately, I could recover those driver files from the old, crashed drive,
so now the driver is properly installed.
 
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