Notebooks

Drivers

Drivers are supplied loaded onto new products, and a backup CD is also supplied. However, should you require drivers for older models, please contact us.

All standard drivers for current series models will be loaded here over the coming months. Older drivers will be available here based on customer demand.

BIOS

NOTES regarding BIOS Update for Pentium 2 & 3 RPCs & RPTs 

If you have purchased an ex-Australian Army Opentec 'Openfire' RPC Series 2 (with Pentium P2 500MHz/512Mb RAM) or Series 3 (Pentium 3) notebook, please note the following:

1 - The BIOS (basic operating system) on Pentium 2 models will only recognise Hard Disc Drive (HDDs) partitions of up to 20Gb.

2 - The BIOS on Pentium 3 models will only recognise Hard Disc Drive (HDDs) partitions of up to 40Gb.

This is purely a limitation of the DOS BIOS available at the time of manufacture.

The smallest ATA HDD drive supplied by Opentec for P2/P3 models is currently an 80Gb HDD. These can be formatted into multiple partitions, but partition size will be limited to 20Gb if the BIOS update is not implemented. Replacement ATA drive availability may be limited as current Series 5 RPCs and RPTs use SATA drives.

Users of older models will also need the Windows Operating System (eg Win 95, Win 98 or Win 2K) as we no longer support older OS versions.

BIOS UPDATE FOR RPC SERIES II & III

Contact us and we will email you the BIOS patch. Once you receive this:

1. Install a floppy disc containing a boot program to boot your Opentec RPC. You can create a boot disc

2. Under DOS prompt, type in A: awdflash rt60829.bin /cc/cd/cp 3

3 - Follow the instructions on screen.

4 - Do not power off the unit during upgrading BIOS.