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Driver downloads off HP/Compaq's site corrupt?
I've been trying to download the Win98 sound, video, and modem drivers for a
Presario 5461 over the last couple days. All of them seem corrupt. On a Win98 machine it gives an illegal operation when I try to run them, on a Win2K it says "invalid Win32 application". So far I've tried downloading on multiple computers with different OSes, browsers, ISPs, etc. Including one one a DSL connection. No luck. No matter what I try they're always bad. And all these computers are fresh installs. Anyone know what's going on? The other non-driver files for that model work, as do most drivers for other Compaq models I'm working on. This is driving me crazy, and the owner of this thing needs it back. If I can't dig up the drivers I'm just going to swap this machine out for another non-POS. GTO(John) |
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Are you trying to install on a 5461? The result on a W2K machine is to be
expected, trying to install a Win 9X driver on a NT platform. HH "GTO69RA4" wrote in message ... I've been trying to download the Win98 sound, video, and modem drivers for a Presario 5461 over the last couple days. All of them seem corrupt. On a Win98 machine it gives an illegal operation when I try to run them, on a Win2K it says "invalid Win32 application". So far I've tried downloading on multiple computers with different OSes, browsers, ISPs, etc. Including one one a DSL connection. No luck. No matter what I try they're always bad. And all these computers are fresh installs. Anyone know what's going on? The other non-driver files for that model work, as do most drivers for other Compaq models I'm working on. This is driving me crazy, and the owner of this thing needs it back. If I can't dig up the drivers I'm just going to swap this machine out for another non-POS. GTO(John) |
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GTO69RA4 wrote:
I've been trying to download the Win98 sound, video, and modem drivers for a Presario 5461 over the last couple days. All of them seem corrupt. On a Win98 machine it gives an illegal operation when I try to run them, on a Win2K it says "invalid Win32 application". So far I've tried downloading on multiple computers with different OSes, browsers, ISPs, etc. Including one one a DSL connection. No luck. No matter what I try they're always bad. And all these computers are fresh installs. Anyone know what's going on? The other non-driver files for that model work, as do most drivers for other Compaq models I'm working on. This is driving me crazy, and the owner of this thing needs it back. If I can't dig up the drivers I'm just going to swap this machine out for another non-POS. GTO(John) Post a link to an example so we can see the actual source. Q |
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Post a link to an example so we can see the actual source.
Q Here's the sound driver: ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp11001-11500/sp11386.exe I just noticed that when I try downloading it via dialup it goes about about four times the possible speed. I get the full file-size and everything. It didn't do this when I used DSL and still wouldn't open. GTO(John) |
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Are you trying to install on a 5461? The result on a W2K machine is to be
expected, trying to install a Win 9X driver on a NT platform. HH I've tried it on half a dozen computers, including the 5461. It's not that it won't install, it's that it won't even execute. Just gives these errors. I can run the drivers for almost every other Compaq model on any computer I want (of course, they won't actually install if it's the wrong OS or computer). HP was useless to talk with "we don't know why they're bad--order our restore CDs". Client will probably just upgrade to another brand rather than ordering anything. GTO(John) |
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GTO69RA4 wrote:
Post a link to an example so we can see the actual source. Q Here's the sound driver: ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp11001-11500/sp11386.exe I just noticed that when I try downloading it via dialup it goes about about four times the possible speed. I get the full file-size and everything. It didn't do this when I used DSL and still wouldn't open. GTO(John) This absolutely will not download for me - bad header information. Q |
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This absolutely will not download for me - bad header information.
Q Here, it doesn't seem to want to be downloaded from a link like that. Click on SP11386 in this directory: ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp11001-11500/ GTO(John) |
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GTO69RA4 wrote:
This absolutely will not download for me - bad header information. Q Here, it doesn't seem to want to be downloaded from a link like that. Click on SP11386 in this directory: ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp11001-11500/ GTO(John) OK, the link works, but I get the same results you find. Are these supposed to be run in conjunction with some Compaq installation utility? Q |
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OK, the link works, but I get the same results you find. Are these
supposed to be run in conjunction with some Compaq installation utility? Q Nope, just self-installers. Everything in that folder seems bad. HP just says "no clue" and to buy the CD. Client's decided to go the CD route, but it really annoys me that they can't keep the files straightened out. GTO(John) |
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I also received nothing but Illegal operation messages when using the
SP-11386.exe driver downloaded from HP or even Driversguide.com on a Presario 5360. I finally went back to driversguide.com and started looking for ESS Technology drivers for the ESS solo chipset. I really only wanted to find a driver close enough to work. I had already exhausted all other possible sites looking for other copies of the specified SP-11386 driver. What I found were 3 drivers. 3038.zip, ES_1938_1946_SE3047.zip and ESS-ES1938S-1MBSolo-1-AudioDrive-V4[1].05.1087-Fe4-1999. (Wow, what a name). I download all three and expanded them into individual folders. I installed each driver until one worked which in this case was the second driver, ES_1938_1946_SE3047.zip. The driver installed as advertised and I rebooted. It found new hardward and loaded files from the windows 98 disk and completed the process. I went to the Multimedia icon in the Control Panel and found I had the ESS AudioDrive listed and active. I tested the sound in the Sound icon in the Control Panel and I had sound. I can not say this will work for anyone else, but at least it is an idea. ============== Posted through www.HowToFixComputers.com/bb - free access to hardware troubleshooting newsgroups. |
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