The Advent 5611 Laptop is a superb value laptop that will cover all your day to day requirements. With a powerful processor your programmes will run quickly and efficiently. The Advent 5611 Laptop makes a great choice for those wanting a really affordable laptop that will carry out everyday computing tasks efficiently and effectively. Restart your PC. Windows will attempt to reinstall the driver. If you can't see the desktop and instead see a blue, black, or blank screen, see Troubleshoot blue screen errors or Troubleshoot black or blank screen errors. Check for Windows updates.
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.
This laptop has two memory slots which are accessed by removing the threee screws from the memory module cover underneath the laptop.
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
Disks Supplied
Items Supplied
Documentation Supplied
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.
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.
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