Hi all
I have a Fujitsu Seimens Amilo LI 1705 with vista home basic pre installed.
I have tried to get drivers for XP for days with no success
My progress so far:
Managed to get past SATA problem by pressing F5 when asked to load Third party SATA and RAID drivers and then selecting C-Step with I386.
After win xp boots Nothing works, no sound,video,lan,WLAN,modem,USB
Its a dead duck!!!!!!
Anyway Managed to find display drivers floating around on www.viaarena.com
as for sound,USB,Modem,LAN,WLAN no luck, keep getting "cant find HD device" error have tried all the versions and none work
Is there any generic or compatible driver for this Mainboard (Via VN896 with VT8237A)?
Is there a way to get Win XP to run from inside VIsta ? e.g: Virtual machine or special script
or better yet any proper working drivers for WIN XP?
Done a bit of reaserch and turns out that the mainboard manufacturer (VIA technologies) only supports Vista.
Thank God I did'nt buy this laptop with my own money, as got as a freebie with a cellphone contract
Do I have to sell this laptop or is there any workaround to any of the above problems?
Any, and I mean Any help is appreciated