Make sure your printer is on and connected to your PC. Open Start Settings Devices Printers & scanners.Select the name of the printer, and then choose Remove device. To reinstall the printer, select Add a printer or scanner and then select the name of the printer you want to add. If Windows doesn’t automatically find a new driver after the printer is added, look for one on the device. Displays / Desktops Motherboards / Components Networking / IoT / Servers. ASUS Download Center Download the latest drivers, software, firmware and user manuals. Enter a model name or select a product to find drivers, manuals, warranty information and more.
Specification
| CPU | Intel Pentium 4 2.66 GHz |
| BIOS | AMIBIOS. Press DEL to enter |
| Memory | 512MB PC2100 DDR SODIMM (2 memory slots. Max 1GB) |
| Hard Drive | 40 GB Toshiba MK4012GAS |
| CD Drive | Matshita UJ-815 DVD-RW Drive |
| Screen | 15' TFT (Native Res.1024 x 768) |
| Video Card | ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 64MB |
| Sound Card | SiS 7012 |
| Modem | SmartLink 56K |
| Network Card | SiS 900 Broadcom WL-352BW Wireless LAN |
| PC Card | 1x Type I/II |
| Ports | 1x Microphone 1x Headphone 1x PS/2 1x IR 1x S-Video (TV-Out) 1x Modem 1x LAN 1x IEEE1394 (FireWire) 1x PC Card (Type I/II) 1x VGA 1x Parallel 2x USB 2.0 1x Kensington Lock |
| Battery | UN251S1(C1)-E1 (11.1v 6000mAh) |
| Dimensions | 45 x 326 x 280 (HxWxD in mm) |
| Weight | 3.3kg |
| Made By | Gericom N251S6 Series |
Drivers
Your laptop should have a backup copy of all the drivers, you can find it by browsing to the c:applicationsdrivers folder. If this folder is missing then your laptop should also have been supplied with a utility CD which contains a copy of the drivers.
Memory Upgrades
This laptop has two memory slots which are accessed by removing the threee screws from the memory module cover underneath the laptop.
Bottom of Laptop
- Battery Pack and Battery Latch
- Ventilation Grill
- Memory Expansion Socket and Mini PCI Socket Access Door
- Swappable Device Bay and Latch
- Hard Disk Drive Bay
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Function Keys
Fn + F1 - Activates suspend mode
Fn + F3 - Turns battery warning beep on or off
Fn + F4 - Changes between display mode: LCD only, CRT only, LCD and CRT
Fn + F5 - Increases speaker volume
Fn + F6 - Decrease speaker volume
Fn + F7 - Increase display brightness
Fn + F8 - Decrease display brightness
In the Box
Disks Supplied
- Advent system recovery CD version 2.1
- Utility CD version 1.1
- PowerDVD XP 4.0 (CD key printed on the CD sleeve)
- Nero Express (CD key printed on CD sleeve)
- Microsoft Works 7.0 CD
Items Supplied
- Advent 7026 notebook
- Mains power adapter
- Mains power cable
- UK modem cable
- BT phone connector
Documentation Supplied
- Advent notebook installation manual and troubleshooting guide
- Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition 'Start here' guide
- Freeserve leaflet
Recovery Disc
Due to the nature of the recovery process you should not use FDISK or any other partition management software to delete the partition on your Advent computer. Doing so will prevent the recovery from functioning correctly. If the recovery asks for a second CD you will need to obtain an Update CD from Advent.
To recover your Advent PC you will need your Advent System Recovery CD.
- Place the CD into the DVD drive and restart your computer.
- Press R on the keyboard when prompted.
- The recovery will load and display a menu of options:
- Non-destructive recovery: This option will restore Windows, supplied applications, and drivers. This option will not destroy your documents or programs. These will be backed up along with the registry. These are restored at the end of the recovery process.
- System Recovery - No format: This will reinstall Windows, supplied applications and drivers. It will move your files to a folder called 'My old disk structure'. Any applications (except those supplied) will need to be reinstalled.
- System Recovery - Quick format: This option will erase your hard drive including your personal files. Windows, supplied applications and drivers will be reinstalled.
- Select the Non-destructive recovery option and press Next.
- You will be informed about System Restore in Windows, click Yes.
- The recovery will begin. Once this is complete you should eject the CD and click Restart.
Additional information.
Press the ALT and D keys at the recovery menu to access a command prompt. This will allow access to C: drive.The command prompt will default to E:i386system32 where you can run a variety of tools including CHKDSK.EXE.
Reinstalling applications
From version 2.x of the recovery system onwards you can install applications from the c:applications folder. Drivers can be installed from the c:applicationsdrivers folder and utilities from the c:applicationstools folder. You will still need to install Microsoft Works from the supplied CD.
FAQ
Problems Installing Windows XP SP2
This is probably a bit late for most people but there is a good article on getting SP2 working on these laptops - http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-418131.php
Recover Advent Laptop Data Effectively
Advent is a computer manufacturing and marketing company that produces and sells Desktop computers, Laptops, Peripheral devices and its related products.
Rescue Advent Laptop data:
Losing important files from Laptops is horrifying mainly if you have hundreds of GBs of data stored in it. Normally people don’t maintain a backup of all the data in a computer as it is impractical to maintain a backup for large volumes of data.
Laptops with storage capacities up to 1TB hard drive are available these days in the market. But they are not as efficient and powerful as Desktop PCs. The Hard Disk Drives of Laptops can easily get damaged if proper care is not taken. There are a number of data loss actions faced on a daily basis in Advent Laptop devices that lead you to perform Advent Laptop recovery. Some of them are mentioned here.
Data loss scenarios on Laptops that lead you to perform Advent Laptop recovery:
- Hard Disk Drive malfunction – any errors in the Hard Disk Drive can cause all its data to get inaccessible. Damages may come from physical impacts, excessive heating and ageing of Laptops
- Accidental file deletion – this is one of the most common actions people face for data deletion. One may erase a file assuming it as unnecessary and later on tend to regret it. Or a user may have transported it to Recycle Bin and unknowingly emptied it and similar other actions
- Data deletion due to Virus – a volume affected with viruses and malwares can easily corrupt data on that drive. Or at worst, can cause data deletion
- Data deletion by third party softwares– any third party softwares like Antivirus can delete any file or folder if it finds danger from those files
- Improper file transfer –Trying to move a file from one device to another improperly can certainly cause data loss
- There are many other unknown reason for data loss that lead you to perform Advent Laptop recovery
Advent Laptop restoration using Remo Recover tool:
Restore Advent Laptop data even from deleted / missing partitions - Partition recovery is a method of recovering contents from missing or deleted partitions that are deleted or lost due to hardware, software or human errors. Even after a partition is deleted or lost, the data is still present on that partition unless that space is overwritten by any new content. Hence, files can be recovered even from deleted or lost partitions by using a third party recovery tool such as Remo Recover tool for Windows OS. Apart from partition recovery Remo Recover can recover files Bad Sectors and unmounting drives too.
Remo Recover provides complete transparency to rescue advent Laptop data easily. You can as well preview all recovered contents even before saving the rescued data. It is so simple to use that any basic user can easily undelete Advent Laptop data
Other notable features of Remo Recover:
- A powerful data restoration tool with which you can perform data recovery to recover over 300 file types making data recovery successful without missing any type of data
- Effectively retrieve files from non-booting and unmounting drives using this tool
- Recover data from FAT / NTFS / RAID partitions and also perform data recovery on external hard disk drives, flash memories, SATA devices
- You can view recovered data after recovery process just using free version of Remo Repair tool
Steps to perform Advent Laptop recovery using Remo Recover tool:
Step 1: Download, install Remo Recover tool and launch it to open its Main Screen. Select 'Recover Partitions' option from the main screen. Then, it shows all the logical and physical disks available in the system. Choose the appropriate disk and click 'Scan' button
Figure 1: Main Screen
Step 2: Now, the tool scans the disk to find all its current and previously present partitions in the disk. Choose the appropriate partition which you want to recover and click 'Scan' option to start the recovery process
Figure 2: Select Appropriate Partition
Step 3: Once scanning and recovery is done, the tool shows the recovered files list in 'Data View', and 'File Type View'
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Figure 3: Recovered Data View
Step 4: Now, the tool allows to preview the recovered files to evaluate its recovery results before saving the files
Figure 4: Preview Recovered Files
Step 5: At last, if you are satisfied with the tool, then purchase the license key and save the recovered files at the destination location of your choice
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Figure 5: Save Recovered Files