Umax Actionbook 345T laptop help needed

I have just purchased a secondhand Umax Actionbook 345T laptop, which is not working correctly. I was wondering if anyone knew what make/model the sound card/graqphics card/modem are, the reason being I can only get 256 colours on the graphics card when it should be at least 16 bit, the sound card is not working and the modem is also not working, these are due to the drivers not being installed. I have tried installing the drivers through the Windows 98 OS disc, and also searching the internet, but nothing works.

I would really appreciate any help possible as it has totally done my head in.

Thanks in advance

Scarlet

Originally Posted by Scarlet

I have just purchased a secondhand Umax Actionbook 345T laptop, which is not working correctly. I was wondering if anyone knew what make/model the sound card/graqphics card/modem are, the reason being I can only get 256 colours on the graphics card when it should be at least 16 bit, the sound card is not working and the modem is also not working, these are due to the drivers not being installed. I have tried installing the drivers through the Windows 98 OS disc, and also searching the internet, but nothing works.

I would really appreciate any help possible as it has totally done my head in.

Thanks in advance

Scarlet

Scarlet,
you could try a utility like belarc advisor to identify the unknown devices . it is available at http://www.belarc.com .
hope this helps,
terry

Originally Posted by Scarlet

I have just purchased a secondhand Umax Actionbook 345T laptop, which is not working correctly. I was wondering if anyone knew what make/model the sound card/graqphics card/modem are, the reason being I can only get 256 colours on the graphics card when it should be at least 16 bit, the sound card is not working and the modem is also not working, these are due to the drivers not being installed. I have tried installing the drivers through the Windows 98 OS disc, and also searching the internet, but nothing works.

I would really appreciate any help possible as it has totally done my head in.

Thanks in advance

Scarlet

Scarlet,
i found some info on your system . it is at
http://www.planetfall.com/~jeff/actionbook

hi, try this link to the software you need to identify the drivers you need

http://www.zhangduo.com/udi.html

the modem is a lucient have fun

Hi, i have the same laptop. Never worked properly but here is some important info.

The action book 345t is a rebadged laptop. I forget the original name but know it is model 2000 of an old taiwanese product line made by first international computers. I downloaded all the drivers off of their web site before it disappeared several years ago, but there were no xp or win2k drivers and this is all i can remember.

chipset: via/chino15 v1.3
audio: viaudio
GFX card: Trident
cdrom: teac
also a program called PHDisk that the bios needs to save the windows session to hd during suspend mode.

This Kapok laptop sold under differand names Umax, Prostar
Procesor: AMD Mobile K6-2 450MHz
Chip Set Via Apollo MVP4
Trident CyberBlade i7 AGP
CDROM: 24x Teac CD-224E
Lan: 3Com EtherLink III 3C589D PCMCIA, 10Mbit
Modem: ESS 56kbit, faxmodem, V.90
Sound Via AC'97
http://www.itreviews.co.uk/hardware/h131.htm
http://www.gieldy.pl/02-d.shtml?020002159*1070622531
http://www.itreviews.co.uk/hardware/h131.htm
Made by Kapok; dead link.
www.kapok.com.tw/
Kapok drivers; there is no model 2000 listed
Download the user manuals for the 1100, 1200 series and see if matches your hardware. The hardware could have changed depending on whos name the laptop was sold under. But its a start.
http://www.clevo.com.tw/download/default.asp

WinXP has all the drivers for this laptop, and it runs far faster and at a lower temp than with older versions.

What you will need though is a program called phdisk for the save mem to hard drive used in the slep mode, and also a prog called EZButton to make the extra internet buttons work. I would recommend not installing phdisk as it seems to harddrives up after a while, but ezbutton is worth installing.
Also to get the infrared port to work you will need to enable in the cmos settings.

I recently got one of these beasts working so if anyone has any specific probs with this laptop and xp ill be keeping an eyeout on this forum.