Hi,
I did have to format this laptop Packard Bell Easy Note MX51 without any drivers so I have made a package with those needed to install Windows XP SP3, hope it will be useful.

 > MotherBoard : Packard Bell BV Easy Note_MX51
  > Chipset : nVidia GeForce Go 6100
  > CPU : AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile TL-50 @ 1600MHz
  > RAM : 1024MB (2 x 512 DDR2-SDRAM )
  > Video : NVIDIA GeForce Go 6100
  > Hard Disk : Seagate ST9120822A (120GB)
  > DVD-Rom Drive : Optiarc DVD RW AD-5540A
  > Screen : LGPhilipsLCD  – 15″
  > WiFi : Atheros Communications AR5007

Contents…
nVIDIA GeForce Go 6100 8.6.2.2
Realtek HDA 5.10.0.5282
Atheros Wireless Network Adapter 4.2.2.27
NVIDIA Windows XP nForce Drivers 15.26
PackardBell HOTKEYs

RAR  SFX archive 185MB

http://www.mediafire.com/?ps2f8gumeme1eku

Since I have no floppies anymore, I’ve made an ISO with W98SE “DOS” in it, and the 703 rom P5KR file as long with AFUDOS 2.11

Hope this will be useful BUT REMEMBER!

BIOS flashing is potentially risky, if you do not encounter problems
using the current version of BIOS, it is recommended that you NOT flash the BIOS.
To flash the BIOS, do it with caution.
Inadequate BIOS flashing may result in system malfunction or motherboard DEATH

Here’s the ISO

http://www.mediafire.com/?3yz3u32k0cjkma2

just got my new EEE Asus 1215N with Windows 7 on it… I really don’t like it I’m old I like Windows XP and also I do a lot of scripting for other clients and I use my laptop as a test machine so I need to have XP on it.

Here’s the specs(from PCWizard)

If are going to buy this I think is great just to things bother me a little: touchpad button (hard to press) and power supply plug is very tiny and I think easy to break if you are a frequent flyer so pay attention)

P.S. I suggest you to install after synaptics touchpad this program and disable all the two fingers gestures in synaptics utility, with this one you can right click on the touchpad like on the iPhone (one finger+ tap with second finger)

http://code.google.com/p/two-finger-scroll/downloads/list

So I removed 7 and installed XP SP3 on it, and voilà everything works except…. that damn Optimus ION2 Nvidia… my hardware ids are: VEN_10DE&DEV_0A76&SUBSYS_84461043 and

I’ve tried this so long:

- Asus 1015N WinXP drivers (adding also my hw info to the inf cause they weren’t there)

- Asus 1215N drivers (on site support page are claimed as WinXP/Vista but in the inf are only Vista/7)

- 260.63 beta from Nvidia which is the nearest thing that I’ve found: in the inf there is already a VEN_10DE&DEV_0A76&SUBSYS_84471043 instead of 8446 I’ve tried to modify the info but in the end no good results at least I have my device recognized with Yellow Mark in Device Manager)

if you look at nvam.inf you’ll find in

260.63 vista verde notebook beta

%NVIDIA_DEV.0A76.01% = Section057, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0A76&SUBSYS_84461043

%NVIDIA_DEV.0A76.02% = Section057, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0A76&SUBSYS_84471043

260.63 XP verde notebook beta

%NVIDIA_DEV.0A76.01% = Section040, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0A76&SUBSYS_84471043

hope that in a future beta for XP Nvidia will include the same hardware that is already in the Beta for 7/Vista.

if anyone has news about it please comment this post, so we can be helpful to others… (also to me )
—EDIT 11 October —

Hi,
I’ve made a selfextracting RAR package with the drivers for windows XP (as October 2010)

http://www.mediafire.com/?w324z6939qvd3a1

You can find in it:

Asus ACPI Driver v.1.0.0.1 (to have brightness control working)
Audio-V6_0_1_6098 (for 7 and XP)
Bluetooth 5.6.0.3900
Intel Chipset 9.1.1.1020
Atheros AR813X/AR815X LAN (for 7 and XP)
Broadcom WIFI 5.100.9.142 (for 7 and XP)
Synaptics_v14_0_3_C

also in the package you can try out TwoFingerScroll the touchpad software mentioned above.

You should have at end of the install just the NVIDIA card not recognized.

—- EDIT 23 April —-

Install also NVIDIA HDMI Audio driver…

http://www.nvidia.com/object/hdmi_audio_xp_vista_win7_1.00.00.59.html

boot: cannot determine first file name on device "flash:"

and I was stuck at rommon 1 prompt

When you are in this situation or similar you need to restore the flash partition of the router and to do that you need to tranfer the firmware file from your PC to the router by TFTP

To do that you need:

- Cisco 837
- Cisco Console Cable (if you don’t have one google for how to make one)
- A computer with a serial port(of course) and any terminal app (hyperterminal or putty is fine)
- Ethernet Cable

1. open terminal app and connect using these terminal settings:
- 9600 baud rate
- No parity
- 8 data bits
- 1 stop bit
- No flow control
- check serial port number in Hardware Manager if you have more than one.

2. connect the Cisco Console Cable and turn on the router.

3. On Terminal windows should pop up the first lines of the software boot and then you got at rommon 1 prompt due to the error that you may have.

4. type help you should see a list of commands with tftpdnld in it.

5. On the Pc side you need to assign a static IP address of the same range so for instance 10.1.1.11 is fine. Also you need to download the firmware for your router and an TFTP server application. I’ve used TFTP32 tftpd32.jounin.net

6. we need to definy IP parameters and file name for the TFTP transfer so write on the terminal window

IP_ADDRESS=10.1.1.22 (return)
IP_SUBNET_MASK=255.255.255.0 (return)
DEFAULT_GATEWAY=10.1.1.1 (return)
TFTP_SERVER=10.1.1.11 (return)
TFTP_FILE=C837 (return)

two words on the TFTP_FILE on my case usiing the original file name didn’t work I had to remove dashes, spaces then it worked.

7. Connect the ethernet cable from the router to your PC and then write in the terminal window tftpdnld

8. answer yes to start the transfer and you should see the download in progress.

9. after that the flash partition will be erased and programmed automatically, you just need to enter reset when it’s done to reboot the router.

10. Done.

Hi,

I got from a friend a bunch of CISCO 837 ADSL routers and I decided to write few lines about to reset and recover those… first because I use this blog also a internet reminder and second to help who need infos only to do this without spending hours on forums over the web.

Hardware needed:

- Cisco 837
- Cisco Console Cable (if you don’t have one google for how to make one)
- A computer with a serial port(of course) and any terminal app (hyperterminal or putty is fine)

1. open terminal app and connect using these terminal settings:
- 9600 baud rate
- No parity
- 8 data bits
- 1 stop bit
- No flow control
- check serial port number in Hardware Manager if you have more than one.

2. connect the Cisco Console Cable and turn on the router.

3. On Terminal windows should pop up the first lines of the software boot

System Bootstrap, Version 12.2(11r)YV5, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport
Copyright (c) 2006 by cisco Systems, Inc.

4. When you this line send BREAK command in the terminal window (usually by pressing CTRL+BREAK also BREAK on laptop may require an Fn key in order to be accessed)

C800/SOHO series (Board ID: 23-127) platform with 65536 Kbytes of main memory

something like that should appear

monitor: command "boot" aborted due to user interrupt
rommon 1 >

5. type confreg 0×2142

you should have now rommon 2 >

6. type reset

7. wait for router reboot and when asked answer NO to initial configuration

8. after there is no more output from the router press enter and then write enable enter

you should get Router#

9. write write erase and press y (no need to press enter) you should get the NVRAM erase

10. exit and reboot the router (brand new factory settings)

Well here’s the fact: I have switched from 3G (on ios3.1.2) to new 3Gs (ios4.0.1) and guess what now I’m getting a lot of times NO SERVICE with the same SIM card and in the same places.

I have made a quick test with dbm signal values and in the same spots 3G has 4-5 dbm more than 3Gs everytime, and with that one I never had NO SERVICE. (btw tested with 3G toggle turned off on both phones)

It was time to a firmware update, and I chose the Russian version 3.02B01T01 because a lot of people reported it is great… well it turns out it isn’t, at least for my G604T rev A1 EU version. I got all the network ports going up and down and the router freeze triple times than before

I’ve choose, instead, an updated version of the Austrialian firmware, I was on B07 and now I have B012, and to get rid of the freeze problem I have made some holes as air colling system, black is cool isn’t it?

Francesco Cossiga – Alle 8 della sera – La vita vissuta – Radio 2

http://www.mediafire.com/?nt3tuyhtjig

http://www.mediafire.com/?zmkkmmcywte

La vita vissuta – Il Presidente Francesco Cossiga è l’autore del nuovo ciclo di Alle 8 della sera. Per venti serate sarà possibile ascoltare il racconto che egli ha fatto delle vicende che hanno cambiato la vita politica italiana. Le puntate (di 30′ minuti), sono state registrate nel corso di tre mesi, nella casa del senatore.
“Siamo rimasti solo due testimoni, io e Andreotti”, dice Cossiga.
Senza altri interlocutori, Cossiga racconta di De Gasperi, degli americani e dell’aereo di Mattei esploso in volo. Con grande tenerezza ricorda l’infanzia a Sassari e le prime esperienze politiche di suo cugino Enrico Berlinguer.
Le conversazioni radiofoniche del Presidente permetteranno agli ascoltatori di conoscere il punto di vista di uno dei protagonisti della prima repubblica perché alla sua maniera il senatore ricorda fatti e persone; un lungo e paradossale racconto della P2 di Gelli, “il materassaio”, e un’intera settimana per ricostruire i passaggi politici e culturali che hanno portato al terrorismo delle BR e al rapimento e all’uccisione di Aldo Moro. Le ultime puntate sono dedicate alla politica internazionale, al terrorismo islamico e all’elezione di Barack Obama.

L’Italia negli anni della Guerra Fredda – Sergio Romano Alle 8 della sera – Radio 2

http://www.mediafire.com/?l5yyygnymmz

http://www.mediafire.com/?mg4mmd0jmnk

Quando finì la Seconda guerra mondiale i maggiori uomini di Stato avevano nel loro cassetto un progetto per la creazione di un nuovo ordine internazionale. Ma di lì a pochi mesi ciascuno di essi dovette constatare che la storia non avrebbe dato retta ai loro programmi e alle loro speranze. Gli eventi sfuggirono quasi sempre al controllo delle grandi potenze e le costrinsero a improvvisare sul campo le loro reazioni. Queste trasmissioni cercano di mettere ordine in cinquant’anni di storia mondiale e di ritrovare il filo che unisce, ad esempio, l’ascesa della Jugoslavia di Tito alla sua disintegrazione, l’intervento della Cina nella Guerra di Corea alle grandi riforme economiche di Den Xiao Ping. In alcuni degli avvenimenti raccontati in queste trasmissioni l’Italia fu coinvolta solo marginalmente. Ma in molti essi di ebbe una parte non irrilevante. E fu sempre comunque, in un mondo sempre più interdipendente, testimone interessata. La storia della seconda metà del Novecento continuerà a condizionare per molto tempo quella del nostro presente e del nostro futuro.

Stalin – Franco Cardini – Alle 8 della sera – Radio 2

http://www.mediafire.com/?jmtvoujmwrz

http://www.mediafire.com/?mtxdelnmodl

Dopo Alessando Magno, Gengis Khan e Tamerlano, Stalin è il capo che ha maggiormente segnato della sua volontà il macrocontinente euroasiatico. Se lo zar Pietro il Grande ha costretto la Russia ad entrare in Europa, Stalin l’ha obbligata a fare il suo ingresso sanguinoso e trionfante nella Modernità. Franco Cardini rilegge Stalin alla luce di chi lo ha ammirato e temuto, da Eisenstein a Bulgakov. Cerca di penetrare i segreti del suo Ego tenebroso, il mondo contrastante dei suoi affetti e delle sue passioni. Giuseppe il Grande è l’Icona perfetta della Solitudine e del Potere. Solo Plutarco e Shakespeare avrebbero potuto interpretrarlo in modo adeguato. Solo in lui si riflettono completamente la maesta’ e l’orrore del Novecento.

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Here is the schematic, tha only “hard” part is to find someone that has a PIC programmer.

Depending on which is your PIC you have to set this on the programmer.

• PIC12C508/509: OSC XT for use with quartz, OSC IntRC for internal oscillator; WDT ON (watch dog timer); MCLRE INT (internal startup)
• PIC16C84/F84: OSC XT; WDT ON (watch dog timer);PWRTE ON

Software can be downloaded here. UIRhex (rename to zip)

All the credit(software/schematics) goes to Srđan Milostić I’ve just “created” a mirror.

edit 28 March

Seems a little bit harder to use just arrows in Windows Media Center, despite the beauty I suggest you to use a remote control with more buttons.. otherwise go Boxee

To install just copy it to \var\stash\Wallpapers and then select it from Settings Application, if you have a regular iPhone you can install it from Photos App, but (I don’t know why) when you set it as the default background seems that the Iphone reconvert the image and decrease the quality.