Support Kiwi OpenNote 180c

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Can anybody help me to the latest BIOS and drivers of the Kiwi
OpenNote 180c notebook. The Kiwi company does not exist anymore and
their website www.kiwicom.com is closed.

Please help.

 

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On 24 Apr 2004 03:35:33 -0700, twinkle1968@hotmail.com (Erik te
Winkel) wrote:
>Can anybody help me to the latest BIOS and drivers of the Kiwi
>OpenNote 180c notebook. The Kiwi company does not exist anymore and
>their website www.kiwicom.com is closed.
>
I used to own one of those. I think the company still sells in
Taiwan - the owner was from there and was mostly just importing them
to the US.
I don't think there were any driver or BIOS upgrades, though. Not a
lot of support from them at the time.
Emanuel

 

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Forget it. Kiwi didn't even offer any real support when it was around, and
last I spoke with 'em was 4 years ago and they were closing down both here
and in TW.

Insofar as I know, no BIOS upgrade was ever offered. Insofar as I can
remember, setting up the audio (Opti 931)in these systems were an absolute
pain in the ass - 'cause they only offered a very specific driver for
Windows 95 only. You have to install 95, get their drivers to work
correctly, then install whatever newer OS on top of it to get it to work.
I kept those audio drivers...

 

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You can always try www.orphanlaptops.com


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"bobchang" <totallyincorrect@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Forget it. Kiwi didn't even offer any real support when it was around,
and
> last I spoke with 'em was 4 years ago and they were closing down both here
> and in TW.
>
> Insofar as I know, no BIOS upgrade was ever offered. Insofar as I can
> remember, setting up the audio (Opti 931)in these systems were an absolute
> pain in the ass - 'cause they only offered a very specific driver for
> Windows 95 only. You have to install 95, get their drivers to work
> correctly, then install whatever newer OS on top of it to get it to work.
> I kept those audio drivers...
>
>
>

 

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Yeah... good luck with orphanwhaever...

I'm gonna tell ya a story. Before KIWI went outta biz, one of my shops
asked 'em for the audio driver for their opennote 180. Well, after
repeated phone calls nothing was ever sent out or emailed out. So I got
on the horn and begged and blow'd them and they finally agreed to send us
the drivers. Couple of days later, I got a Toshiba 800MB hard drive with
Windows 95 installed on it and the drive was labelled "sound drive".
Asked for the drivers and got a hard drive with a full Windows 95B version
installed. What a deal!

It turned out that they couldn't get their own drivers to work either - at
least not without killing themselves So when they finally got it to
work in one system, they took the hard drive out and set it apart - so
they could stick that very same hard drive into their customer's systems
(a lot of their systems were getting RMA'd 'cause Windows 95 has no
sound!) and proclaim to their customers that there's nothing wrong with
the audio chip and that it's a software problem. Ha ha.

That was about a week before they closed. I kept that hard drive, in
memory of KIWI.