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Sharp PC-AR10 Laptop - Drivers?

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First post, by Crinale0

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I just got a super cheap Pentium III laptop and I'm wondering if anyone could find drivers for it?

I intend to run Windows 98 SE and MS DOS on this machine. I'd also love it if anyone knows what sound card is in this. I've seen it is Sound Blaster Pro/ Sound Blaster 16 compatible but not sure exactly what it is.

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CPU Mobile Pentium® III processor 650MHz featuring Intel® SpeedStepTM technology
Memory 64MB RAM standard (SDRAM)
Video ATI Rage Mobility M (including 4MB video RAM)
Display 14.1" XGA Low-Reflection TFT LCD (1,024 x 768 dots)
Hard drive 10GB
CD-RW 4x (writing speed), 20x (max. reading speed) CD-RW
FDD Module standard. Simultaneous CD/FD use possible with optional FDD case
Pointing device Glide pad
Audio Mic in, internal stereo speakers, mono microphone, stereo phone out
PCMCIA card slot Type II slot x 2 or Type III x 1, Card Bus support
I/O ports Serial, Parallel/FDD, CRT, USB x 2, PS/2, Expansion bus for Port Replicator, Stereo phone out, Mic in, Modem, LAN, IEEE 1394, DC in
Drive bay CD-R/W, FDD, or optional 2nd battery (swappable)
LAN 100Base-TX LAN
Modem 56Kbps (V.90)

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Reply 1 of 2, by tauro

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Very nice laptop!

The drivers were here...
http://web.archive.org/web/20030213015935/htt … Id=31&dltype=-3

All the files that start with AR10 are the ones you need but they seem to be missing from archive.org 😔

Anyway, try Win98 and see if the sound driver get installed automatically. If it doesn't, check the PCI ID of the sound card using SIV http://rh-software.com/ or just boot a Linux distro and use lspci. Hopefully it's an ESS Maestro or a Yamaha YMF744B-R or similar.

Reply 2 of 2, by Crinale0

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tauro wrote on 2024-09-03, 20:25:
Very nice laptop! […]
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Very nice laptop!

The drivers were here...
http://web.archive.org/web/20030213015935/htt … Id=31&dltype=-3

All the files that start with AR10 are the ones you need but they seem to be missing from archive.org 😔

Anyway, try Win98 and see if the sound driver get installed automatically. If it doesn't, check the PCI ID of the sound card using SIV http://rh-software.com/ or just boot a Linux distro and use lspci. Hopefully it's an ESS Maestro or a Yamaha YMF744B-R or similar.

Thanks yeah i thought it was a nice little purchase for £20, included the optional FDD too and a carry case.

Yeah I will give it a go, another site states it has SB Pro/16 compatibility so like you say hopefully its a ESS/Yam or something would make a nice portable Windows 98 SE / DOS machine 😁

Athlon XP 2400+ @2Ghz|512MB DDR RAM|QDI 7X/400|PNY Geforce 4 Ti 4200 128MB w/ AGP 8x|Sound Blaster Live

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