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  • stevo1210
    Badcaps Legend
    • Oct 2006
    • 4156
    • Australia
    #1

    HP ZE4500 modem driver

    I traded my friend an ATi X300 128MB graphics card for his HP ZE4500 (sticker on base says ZE4523AP) laptop today. It works perfect in every way... except it's missing a battery and the power port is a tad loose and can be a pain sometimes.

    Anyway... I need the driver for the internal 56K modem and I can't find it on any HP site.

    This makes me wonder... why the hell does HP have to make my life so hard? Why can't everyone be like Dell or Toshiba and actually offer all the drivers and revisions of drivers? >_<

    Thanks.
    Don't find love, let love find you. That's why its called falling in love, because you don't force yourself to fall, you just fall. - Anonymous
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    • Scenic
      o.O
      • Sep 2007
      • 2642
      • Germany
      #2
      Re: HP ZE4500 modem driver

      ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib/softwar...en/AKARH00.exe
      ^ driver package for ZE4000 series

      as for toshiba.. dunno where the problem is? easier than HP at least

      http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.c...jsp?service=EU


      edit: modem driver directly from conexant
      http://www.conexant.com/support/files/HSFac97_WinXP.zip

      driverguide site has drivers for this specific laptop, but requires to register a free account there (which in turn spams your email)..
      Last edited by Scenic; 07-06-2010, 07:56 AM.

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        • stevo1210
          Badcaps Legend
          • Oct 2006
          • 4156
          • Australia
          #3
          Re: HP ZE4500 modem driver

          LOL i did say that Toshiba is much easier than HP up there somewhere haha.
          Don't find love, let love find you. That's why its called falling in love, because you don't force yourself to fall, you just fall. - Anonymous

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            • stj
              Great Sage 齊天大聖
              • Dec 2009
              • 30997
              • Albion
              #4
              Re: HP ZE4500 modem driver

              if by power-port you mean the charging soket,
              resolder it, or it will burn - and maybe burn the pcb too.

              this was very common on the old mac laptops with the fantastic coloered clamshell cases.

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                • stevo1210
                  Badcaps Legend
                  • Oct 2006
                  • 4156
                  • Australia
                  #5
                  Re: HP ZE4500 modem driver

                  yes, that's it, the charging socket.

                  I looked in the *hole* bit and the prong on the side is perfect and the stick bit in the middle is also fine... I don't know why it keeps losing power everytime I move the cord.

                  Would I need a new socket? or has a solder joint broken in there?
                  Don't find love, let love find you. That's why its called falling in love, because you don't force yourself to fall, you just fall. - Anonymous

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                    • stevo1210
                      Badcaps Legend
                      • Oct 2006
                      • 4156
                      • Australia
                      #6
                      Re: HP ZE4500 modem driver

                      Oh yes, where can I get a disassembly guide for this laptop?
                      Don't find love, let love find you. That's why its called falling in love, because you don't force yourself to fall, you just fall. - Anonymous

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                        • stevo1210
                          Badcaps Legend
                          • Oct 2006
                          • 4156
                          • Australia
                          #7
                          Re: HP ZE4500 modem driver

                          okay, tried google... no help for a service manual or disassembly guide...

                          How the hell am I gonna open this thing without breaking it?!
                          Don't find love, let love find you. That's why its called falling in love, because you don't force yourself to fall, you just fall. - Anonymous

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                            • stevo1210
                              Badcaps Legend
                              • Oct 2006
                              • 4156
                              • Australia
                              #8
                              Re: HP ZE4500 modem driver

                              Actually... found this on the HP site...

                              https://cdn.badcaps-static.com/pdfs/...ce36d25d29.pdf
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                                • stj
                                  Great Sage 齊天大聖
                                  • Dec 2009
                                  • 30997
                                  • Albion
                                  #9
                                  Re: HP ZE4500 modem driver

                                  o.k. you make an interesting comment.

                                  it could be bad soldering holding the connector to the board,
                                  but it could be a broken wire where it enters the back of the plug.

                                  can you lay your hands on another supply or something to plug yours into to test?

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                                    • PCBONEZ
                                      Grumpy Old Fart
                                      • Aug 2005
                                      • 10661
                                      • USA
                                      #10
                                      Re: HP ZE4500 modem driver

                                      .... or it could be a broken wire in the power brick.
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                                        • stevo1210
                                          Badcaps Legend
                                          • Oct 2006
                                          • 4156
                                          • Australia
                                          #11
                                          Re: HP ZE4500 modem driver

                                          i used a multimeter plugged into the plug bit of the wire... Twisted the wire and what not with no loss of voltages.... So i think it's the socket.
                                          Don't find love, let love find you. That's why its called falling in love, because you don't force yourself to fall, you just fall. - Anonymous

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                                            • kaniki
                                              Badcaps Veteran
                                              • Dec 2009
                                              • 514
                                              #12
                                              Re: HP ZE4500 modem driver

                                              Originally posted by stj
                                              o.k. you make an interesting comment.

                                              it could be bad soldering holding the connector to the board,
                                              but it could be a broken wire where it enters the back of the plug.

                                              can you lay your hands on another supply or something to plug yours into to test?
                                              That is true.. there is a solid wire that runs down the back of the jack that is not flexible. if it get stressed too much, it just breaks in half. i have run into this before. I did not have a replacement jack to i just soldered the connection back together.

                                              Jacks usually are soldered to the board by 4 prongs, one in each corner of the jack and are soldered through the motherboard. they do come free once in a while, especially if they do that electrostatic type of soldering, because there is not much solder there and just enough to hold it in place, and can break free over time. But there is also the possibility that the wire comes looses and break free from the center power part of the plug/jack, which in a case like that, the only thing you can do is replace the whole jack.

                                              one other thing you can check.. see how the connectors are. I have seen some that have had a little bit of build up of dirt on the spring part of the jack that connects with the outside part of the power cord connector. or that the spring part in the jack did not have enough spring to the metal and would loose connection too. those two things, i would just scrape the top of that spring part to give a clean surface for good connection and then try to stick something under the spring steel and try to pry it up a little (using something like a pick or something long, thin, and with a point) so that it puts more pressure against the power cord when you plug it in.

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                                                • stevo1210
                                                  Badcaps Legend
                                                  • Oct 2006
                                                  • 4156
                                                  • Australia
                                                  #13
                                                  Re: HP ZE4500 modem driver

                                                  Yup, it's a broken solder joint alright.

                                                  Since I haven't used a soldering iron for two years or so, I had a few problems figuring out how to apply solder lol.

                                                  The first two times I had cold joints so I was like WTF?

                                                  Then I realized I had the solder tip on the metal prong instead of the base *solder hole*... so only the prong was getting hot and the solder hole base was still cold lol.

                                                  Out came the soldering wick twice and now I have a nice, shiny solder joint.
                                                  Don't find love, let love find you. That's why its called falling in love, because you don't force yourself to fall, you just fall. - Anonymous

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                                                    • stevo1210
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                                                      • Oct 2006
                                                      • 4156
                                                      • Australia
                                                      #14
                                                      Re: HP ZE4500 modem driver

                                                      Everything is back together and I'm glad to say the problem is solved and the lappy works perfectly!
                                                      Don't find love, let love find you. That's why its called falling in love, because you don't force yourself to fall, you just fall. - Anonymous

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