New NP3790 drivers - Page 11

I know our 3790s are getting a little old, in notebook terms. mine is still running great - blowing away the dells, HPs, gateways, and even some macs that fellow students bought at the same time i bought mine. but, i know i'll eventually have to upgrade (256 or 512 mb of video ram on some of the newer models sounds real nice - and the core 2 duo technology sounds sweet, too). is anyone considering moving on yet? if so, what are people looking at? staying with sager or broadening the search?

I just noticed my cardbus driver is old - are we sure the one linked to on the first page of this thread is for the 3790? I only ask because it specifies it's for a tablet pc...
Thanks!

Excellent. Thanks as always, tmgp! I'll tell my 2GB SD cards that if the drivers continue to evolve, they may someday be able to get into the 3790.

Does this driver also control the pcmcia slot?

Wow ... it's been a long time since I've been on here. I've been investigating the modem driver and there hasn't been any new updates ever since SMLink has been acquired by Conexant. I still have the latest modem driver from SMLink if that helps anybody.

Also, I was thinking about installing Vista on my 3790 ... but according to the Vista Upgrade Advisor, there are no compatible drivers for the modem. =( Oh well. I don't really use the modem anyway.

Also, if anybody is interested in the R2.07S2 BIOS, I have that also. I got several PMs asking for that but that was back in '06.

Well, I guess I'll be checking on this thread once in a while. I've been busy on other forums ...

I'm planning on installing Vista within a few weeks. Are there any drivers that are not compatible with Vista besides the modem?

My notebook is still running great. (Don't really use it that much) Although there are newer laptops out there at the moment, there is always a sentimental value the 3790 have for me.

I'm mainly surprised by this makeover. I'm confused as to where to go now.

BIOS - does anyone have any opinion as to which version of the bios linked to on the first page of this thread is best/most stable for an American English 3790?

I have been using the 2.08 version with no problems.

I'm getting a message saying the file is corrupted and can't be unzipped. Would anyone be able to email or pm me the file?

BTW - I'm assuming you can't flash from a usb drive - i'll need to burn it onto a cd, right?

never mind - i got the bios figured out. There's some new horrible news, however: I believe my hard drive is dead. The problem I started with was identical to this post (are posts to other forums allowed?): http://www.errorforum.com/security-f...-problems.html

I flashed new bios, reformatted, and updated all drivers. During the full format it took about 5 hours, btw - a LONG time. Computer ran fin, but then started skitzing out a bit - hiccupping, random freezes. Then programs started to not open and I couldn't even shut down without holding down the power button. I ran a checkdisk and I think there were a couple of errors fixed. I reformatted AGAIN, and same thing happened. I downloaded hitachi's drive fitness test, and after running an advanced test it told me there were some corrupted sectors on the drive. I'm doing a disk erase now to see if it'll be fixed. If the same error report comes up after doing that, then I'm pretty certain it's the drive.

Cause? This all happened a week or 2 after the computer suddenly lost power. The computer fell from a 2-foot height and the battery popped out - the 2 parts that latch onto the computer broke off. My friend was using it on battery power soon after that (before i had time to superglue the latching parts back on), and the battery lost connection and the computer went dead. My question is - could this completely screw the drive up, or would it just potentially make for some easily fixable corrupted files?

My 2nd question - if I do decide I need a new hard drive, does anyone have any recommendations? I had the hitachi 60 GB 7200 HDD, and i definitely don't want to go slower. I'm thinking the 80GB 7200 rpm model. Should I stick with Hitachi? This one was 2.5 years old, so even if it's bunk i'm not necessarily turned off of hitachi by this failure. Does anyone have $.02 worth to put in?

Here's another question - could bad memory be screwing the hard drive up?

Can anyone recommend a good piece of RAM testing software? I'm now wishing I'd thought of that before starting the erase-disk utility...

BTW - sorry to put this in the drivers thread, but I know this is where most 3790 owners go, and I trust you guys...

hi guys
i love sager 3790 too
i preparing to install vista on my notebook
last week i update the DDR and sell my old one
check this out
Kingston Value Ram 1GB 400mhz DDR PC3200 CL3 SODIMM Notebook Memory
i add 2 off them on 400 mhz so thats should be enought for vista
i have 2.0 ghz centrino ,only thing i would like update bios too
iam on 2.07
can"t flash it with 2.08 bios need some help ,i check the forum but i did find any help
can somebody post way how to doit ,i try everything ultra iso to do boot cd...
didnt work
can somebody help ?
at least post a link to solution
thnx guys for drivers,keep it up

Hey tmgp - yeah, i just went with the 80 gb 7200rpm and it's been working fine - good as new but with 20 more gigs.

i am having a slight issue with my monitor, though - I'll have to take a pic at some point and see what you guys think of it.

dl the new wlan drivers and now i keep losing signal

Hi All,

I wonder if anyone could make the built-in Bluetooth work under WinXP. I was not able to successfully use the Billionton driver (v1.4) that came with the computer due to its incompatibility with SP2.

I emailed Billionton few weeks ago and asked for the new version (v1.4.2.11) but they don't seem to give it away easily. I was unable to find it on Sager's Technical Support site as well (which seems to be completely down today).

Needless to say that the bluetooth works like a charm under Linux, so it is surely a driver issue.

Any help is appreciated,
Thanks

Well, Bluetooth problem solved.

For those who might have the same problem:
I called SAGER tech support today and asked them for the driver as it is not listed for NP3790. After few minutes of thinking they figured out that NP4750 uses the same driver and I could download it. I did (version 1.4.2.10) and it works now. LoL