Re: Drivers for HP Notebook N3438


On 2005-11-02 ak621@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Richard Bonner) said:

> Hello, All.
>
> I recently acquired an HP Pavilion Notebook N3438 and want to know
> if anyone can recommend drivers for the CD-ROM, Sound Card and
> Modem. I am using DR-DOS 7.03 on it and no drivers I have tried can
> recognise this hardware. I assume it may be Windows-only hardware.
> I have not taken the notebook apart to see what hardware is in it
> and am hoping someone can suggest something so I won't have to.
> Comments? Suggestions?
>
> Richard Bonner

Hey, Richard. Yep, the sound card and the modem are most likely
Win-hardware...and as such, cannot be made to function under true
DOS.

If you be wanna be double-sure about the modem, you could download
the DOS 'Modem Doctor' diagnostic. Even the freeware 'Bananacom'
communications program (usually BCOM.ZIP) does a decent job of
finding and identifying DOS-compatible modems. If it spazzes out,
it probably means you've got a Win-modem.

The CD-ROM, though, is definitely do-able. Just depends on what
type of drive it is (IDE/ATAPI? SCSI? USB?).

Do a web search to see if you can find some technical specs for
your particular HP laptop. Check the HP website.

If (as I suspect) the CD-ROM drive is ATAPI, then the generic
'VIDE-CDD.SYS' driver is what you need. If you don't already
have it, Google will quickly find it for you.

I've never yet encountered an IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM drive that doesn't
work perfectly with that 'VIDE-CDD.SYS' driver.

And the 'NWCDEX.EXE' CD extensions driver supplied with DR-DOS 7.03
works fine. No need to get fancy with it, either. If you use the
'VIDE-CDD.SYS' driver, you won't need any switches with 'NWCDEX.EXE'
other than the usual '/D:<your_drive_name>' parameter.

Enjoy your new DOS laptop!


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