Supratech Audio Drivers

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I´m searching for audio drivers for a Supratech 259EA1 laptop for WindowsXP
as the company no longer exists and i´ve tried about everything to find these drivers and can´t get them. If someone could help with this i would be gratefull
Thanks
 
I´m searching for audio drivers for a Supratech 259EA1 laptop for Windows XP
as the company no longer exists and i´ve tried about everything to find these drivers and can´t get them. If someone could help with this i would be gratefull
Thanks
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Your model is Supratech Xpert Wide 259EA1, and all that is present here
is a couple of Xpert Panorama models. It looks like your machine, may have
come after they stopped updating this page.

http://web.archive.org/web/20110107...ory_product=4&downloadType=Drivers+/+Firmware

You can trace the hardware IDs, using the Microsoft DevCon utility.

http://www.osronline.com/ddkx/ddtools/devcon_86er.htm#ddk_example_1_find_all_hardware_ids_tools

devcon hwids * > hwids.txt

To do that, you download "devcon.exe" utility from here.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q311272

http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/1/f/11f7dd10-272d-4cd2-896f-9ce67f3e0240/devcon.exe

The file you would want from there, is i386\devcon.exe . While
there is a 64 bit version of that utility, that download does not
contain the necessary file. I'm assuming you have WinXP 32 bit.

Unpack the files. I'm assuming in the following example, that
the devcon.exe file is at C:\Downloads\devcon\i386\devcon.exe .

In a Command Prompt window:

c:

cd \
cd Downloads
cd devcon
cd i386

devcon.exe hwids * > hwids.txt

Now, open a copy of Notepad, and navigate to C:\Downloads\devcon\i386
and open "hwids.txt". In there, you should have a listing which
is the equivalent of Device Manager info.

Post the listing here.

If you can spot "HDAUDIO" or something involving "AC97", so much
the better. As those are typical sound solutions. Occasionally,
a computer will use a PCI sound card, but that is not very common
these days. It's because HDAUDIO or AC97 are dirt cheap, and easier
to provide in a computer. Going PCI for sound, costs a few pennies more.
The reason being, HDAUDIO or AC97 chips are around 48 pins or so, and
use a relatively small IC package.

This is the listing from my current computer. Just a portion for
the sound. Your listing will not currently have a "Name:", because
there is no driver present

HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_198B&SUBSYS_1043829C&REV_1004\4&B3DDC6A&0&0001
Name: SoundMAX Integrated Digital HD Audio
Hardware ID's:
HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_198B&SUBSYS_1043829C&REV_1004
HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_198B&SUBSYS_1043829C
Compatible ID's:
HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_198B&REV_1004
HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_198B
HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_11D4
HDAUDIO\FUNC_01

Just post your whole hardware listing, so we don't miss anything on the first try.

There are other tools for listing hardware, but they offer to install
a "tool bar" or a "search engine". And it takes me too much time to
test for this :-) Devcon isn't pretty, but it may get the job done.

Paul
 
I´m searching for audio drivers for a Supratech 259EA1 laptop for
Windows XP
as the company no longer exists and i´ve tried about everything to find
these drivers and
can´t get them. If someone could help with this i would be gratefull
Thanks
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Here's an easier way to get the device ID than the utility Paul
mentioned:
Open Device Manager.
If there are no drivers for your audio, it should be listed in the
Unknown Devices category, so expand that category.
Double-click the unknown audio device listed there to open its
properties.
Click the Details tab at the top of the properties sheet.
The dropdown box should already show the "Device Instance ID"... if not,
select that from the list.
This will show the PCI\VEN and DEV numbers... copy the entire string of
numbers and post them back to a reply here.

You can also get the Compatible IDs by selecting "Hardware IDs" and/or
"Compatible IDs" from the drop-down list in the properties sheet in
Device Manager.

You can also look them up yourself at this site once you have those
numbers:
http://www.pcidatabase.com/

The PCI\VEN number goes in the Vendor Search, the DEV portion of the
number is used in the Device Search.
For example, if you have
PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_3059&SUBSYS_04701462&REV_60\3&267A616A&0&8D
the Vendor Search would be for 1106, and the Device Search would be for
3059

A Google search for the numbers including the SUBSYS should turn up
identification of what audio set it is. That would be searching for, in
my example:
PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_3059&SUBSYS_04701462
 
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