Medion Wireless Lan Card Driver Zipl
Alfonzo Liebenstein
With my new laptop that came with an Intel WiFi AX201 installed, everything appears to work fine except it always inadvertently wakes up from standby after some period. It has been doing this ever since I made my purchase. I haven't done any hardware modifications, but I am using two different USB 3.0 hubs, one of which has a Realtek USB GbE Family Controller built in. Both of these also work fine, and, the wakeup problem persists regardless of whether I am connected through WiFi or Ethernet. But, I can work around the issue reliably it seems, by disabling Modern Standby, i.e. by adding the PlatformAoAcOverride Dword value = 0 and rebooting after that, and I verified it before and after, via the powercfg a command. With the 'Allow this device to wake the computer from sleep' checkboxes checked, it looks like it never wakes up inadvertently from Legacy Standby, and I verified this by keeping an eye on it for more than a month.
I have done no software modifications except updating the drivers and installing a few desktop apps none of which should have any negative effect on stability, as they are working fine on both my new laptop and my older laptop. The latter laptop also works fine, it uses an Intel Core i5-7200U running on the same OS build, while also using latest drivers on both laptops, etc.. I am using no 3rd party antivirus or firewall, only Windows Defender and Windows Firewall. One other thing that puzzles me about the new laptop is that I can't use the SATA AHCI driver from the Intel RST package because the Tiger Lake-U Controller shows up as hardware ID DEV_A0D3 so that this driver refuses to be installed. The driver from Microsoft does work fine, though, but still I was wondering why I can't use any Intel driver with this particular Intel SATA AHCI Controller. As far as I am aware, there are no drivers available from Medion for my new laptop. Anyway, here are 2 separate event logs taken from it, and my SSU report. Both of these log parts were logged while the Ethernet was connected to my cable modem through my unmanaged 1Gbps network switch, with an internet connection that also works fine.
In reference to the wireless problem, about always inadvertently waking up from standby after some period, just to let you know, we always recommend to install the Wireless driver provided by the manufacturer of the computer, since that driver was heavily customized by them to work with your specific platform.
Based on the SSU report, it states that the current Wireless driver version installed is 22.30.0.11, which is the latest Intel Generic Wireless driver. I looked on MEDION'S web site for the proper Wireless driver for your system and it seems they have a package to install that includes all the drivers, so, please uninstall the current Wireless driver from the computer following the instructions in the links below, and install the drivers provided by MEDION, it should include the Ethernet driver as well:
Also, if you have the option, please get in contact with MEDION directly to confirm that those are the correct drivers for your platform tested and validated by them and to gather the instructions on how to do a BIOS update to the latest version to make sure the laptop is running wit the latest BIOS:
There are no drivers available from Medion. As you can see for yourself on the page you linked, it clearly states this fact. On this same page you linked, there's also a link that points to their FAQ page about driver updates. In this FAQ, they go on to explain about how it also is possible to receive driver updates automatically from the component manufacturer. So, I am using the Intel DSA for that. In addition, this same FAQ also explains that it is possible to manually download latest drivers from the component manufacturer's official website. So, I visited to the Intel Download Center page, and I grabbed the latest version of the WiFi driver from there, as the DSA could not find this one automatically for me. That is, both the DSA and Windows Update found only the older version of this driver. Similarly, on my old laptop, that I mentioned before, and that came with an Intel WiFi AC3165 card inside, the DSA was unable to find the lastest Intel Bluetooth driver. That is, in spite of the fact that this latest Intel Bluetooth driver, that I also ended up grabbing from your Download Center, appears to be working perfectly fine, at least for me.
As for getting a BIOS update, in HWiNFO v7.00 the BIOS date is 11-19-2020. I have contacted Medion support by phone yesterday, but I haven't heard back from them yet. I have verified that the laptop still wakes up from Modern Standby, regardless of whether the WiFi driver from Microsoft (i.e., from Windows Update) is installed, and regardless of whether a generic Intel version is installed by doing a clean install. Under Kernel-Power in Event Viewer, I can see that netwtw10 generates an Event ID 7025, immediately followed by netwtw10 Event ID 7026, immediately followed by Event ID 507 (Reason: 50), then 506, and then 507 again. The 7026 hadn't occurred until now, but, each time when the laptop inadvertently wakes up, the timestamp of each of these events always appears to be identical, as you can see by using Windows Event Viewer to open the .evtx files that I included in a separate zipfile in the attachments, along with the SSU report that I also uploaded.
We will do further research on this matter in order to try to find a possible solution for this problem, it is important for us to let you know that the Intel Wireless drivers are generic, meaning they might or might not work with your system. As soon as I get any updates, I will post all the details on this thread.
If you do not want to take the risk to modify the registry or if the problem persists after trying the steps above, then the next thing to do will be to get in contact directly with MEDION for further assistance on this matter since the problem seems to be related to the operating system:
Sorry, but that's just not going to work. That's simply because, as of version 2004 (i.e., the May 2020 feature upgrade from Microsoft), Windows 10 ignores the CsEnabled registry value. As of version 20H2 (i.e., the October feature upgrade), Windows 10 uses a different registry setting for that, the description of which can be found here:
It means that I already know how to disable Modern Standby. So much so, I already know the correct way to do it on the OS that I am using, whereas your colleague who gave you the information you posted apparently does not know. However, my question wasn't how can I disable Modern Standby. Instead, I am trying to get Modern Standby to work because it is what allows me to use an important feature called Connected Standby.
-Please note during Modern Standby state, the system allows network activity and the networking subsystem stays connected. Depending on the use case, the communication devices can wake SoC, but may or may not turn on the display. For more details, please refer to:
Sorry for my late reply. In spite of the fact I had no external mouse or external keyboard hooked up to this laptop, Logitech G HUB software was the culprit. I had to do several many more test runs to finally figure this out so that's why I took so long to share my results. I ended up having to uninstall this software, as I tried various different workarounds none of which have worked for me. I.e., using Driver Store Explorer to force delete the virtual drivers that belong to G HUB got rid of the drivers, but didn't get rid of the sleep problem, and, a solution that has been suggested on Reddit didn't seem to work either. Comments made by others in this same discussion thread on Reddit suggest that Logitech technical support team have been unable to provide a fix, and has been refusing to respond about this apparent bug that exists in their software.
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[Feature Index]edi...@os2voice.orgMedion Multimedia Entertainment Notebook Titanium M1 By Mark Dodel February 2003 Shortly before Warpstock 2002 I was looking at my local newspaper and saw an adfor a laptop computer in my local Aldi food store circular. They were advertisinga "Medion MD5275" laptop for $1499USD. This was with a 15" display,P4 2.2GHz processor, 512 DDR SDRAM (Max 1024MB, but as I later found out it hasalready installed two 256MB DIMMs) and a DVD-CDRW drive. Other than what I saw inthe advertisement, I didn't have anything else to go on, so I knew it was a gambleto purchase a computer without being sure if OS/2 (or in my case eComStation) hadsupport for all the basic features - video, PCMCIA, and sound. I felt reasonablycertain video was covered by the Scitech SNAP display driver, I had no idea on PCMCIA,and all I knew about sound was that it was "AC'97" and "Sound BlasterCompatible" which is pretty meaningless. I had promised my daughter my now3 year old ToshibaSatellite 2545XCDT, and she was getting more vocal about it, so I was forcedto do something. After several days of changing my mind back and forth on it, Ifinally got up the courage to plunk down $1499 + $90 sales tax in cash (Aldis doesn'taccept checks or credit cards, just cash or debit cards and my debit card didn'tallow for a purchase that large), and took home my newest addition. Aldis doesn'tdisplay their computers, so I had to buy it pretty much sight unseen, entirely basedon the limited specs on the advertisement and on the box.Once I got it home I booted the installed WindowsXP Home partition and triedto figure out what I had actually bought. Being in windoze reminded me why I can'tstand it and why I'm happy to have my OS/2. The sound appeared to be an "ALCAC97" chipset. PCMCIA was a Texas Instruments chipset. Video was billed asa Radeon Mobility M6 chipset. Networking was a Realtek RTL8139 chipset. So I wasstarting to get a good feeling about this.Arghhh,eCS 1.0 wouldn't install on it, hanging on the first reboot. I spent a day tryingdifferent things, before giving up. Luckily eCS CD#2 (which is actually MCP1) installedfine. I was able to run convert.exe (found on the eCSdownload site) to make it an eCS system and apply all the updates. An earlyeCS 1.1P beta installed, but that was without networking or multimedia.Medion is a German company with very limiteddistribution in the US. I believe the machine is built by someone else for them.When I was searching for some information on this a while ago I found that the PremioKaypro A1000 laptop is identical (down to the same LEDs on the display and programmablespecial buttons at the top). Also while searching for information on this laptop,I found an almost identical looking model at a Dutch site, the MedionMD9783, though it has a smaller screen (14.1"), and only 256MB RAM anda 20GB drive, and I see no CPU listed.My Medion MD5275 came with XP Home (with the dreaded "Recovery CD")and OEM versions of Microsoft Works (which includes Word 2002), PowerDVD 4.0 andNero 5 installed on it, wasting about half (19GB) of the IBM Travelstar 40GB drive.The rest was a 5GB FAT32 recovery partition and 14GB backup partition (NTFS5 I think,as was the XP boot partition) which I blew away and created a logical partitionto hold a FAT volume, couple of 1.2GB eCS HPFS bootable volumes and a separate 7GBHPFS apps volume. And still lots of free space. On my list of things to do is toeither blow away the XP partition or shrink it considerably with DFSee.With eCS finally installed I was able to do some investigating using PCI.exeversion 0.47vk. It showed this system has an Intel Brookdale ICH2 chipset whichseems to control most of the system functions (IDE, AGP, PCI, AC'97 Audio Controller)as well as the two 82801BA/BAM USB Controllers.DisplayVideo is an ATI Radeon Mobility M6 LY, 4X AGP bus with 32Meg DDR RAM. InitiallyI could only get this working with GenGRADD and VGA. I reported the problem withSNAP in the Scitech OS/2 support news group and tried several suggestions whichdidn't help. At the suggestion of Scitech support, I sent the notebook to them totry to figure out why SNAP kept hanging the system on boot. They didn't have a probleminstalling OS/2 Warp 4 with Fixpak16 on it. They did find a problem with the CRTout feature at the 1024x768 native resolution, which they fixed in the latest SNAP2.1 beta. On return to me, I still had the same problem with 19 out of every 20or so boots hanging at some point before the end of processing the CONFIG.SYS. SinceScitech could run Warp4, FP16 without a problem, I began to suspect that somethingat the MCP1 code level which predates FP16. Turned out once I installed Fixpak3for eCS, the Scitech'sSNAP driver began to work fine and that is what I use now. SNAP is so much fasterthen the GenGRADD, so I am glad I was able to finally rectify the problem.This laptop has a TFT XGA+ 15" LCD but the native resolution is only 1024x768:-( I can set it to a resolution of as high as 2048x1152, but then it just goesinto a pan and scan mode that I really can't stand.The SNAP driver's zoom feature works very nice though, magnifying the screento a set resolution by depressing the selected key combination. The laptop has aTV out port, though I have no idea exactly what that is about. It appears that theScitech SNAP driver supports TV out on the ATI chipsets, but I don't have a cableto try it. From what I read in the manual, it supports up to 800x600 on a televisionscreen.AudioAccording to windows this laptop has an "Avance AC97 Audio". PCI.exe showedthe audio as "82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio Controller" which turned out tobe a dead end. After doing some searching on the internet for "AC'97"and "OS/2", I found that AC'97 is a generic name, and one had to knowthe actual sound chipset to find out if there was support. There was a VIA AC'97driver on hobbes and then the Uniaud driver released by Innotek(Available on IBM'sSoftware Choice or the eComStation download site for eCS users), but neither ofthese worked. I finally contacted Medion support and asked them what it was. Theysent me a very informative PDF file which listed most of the actual real hardwarein the MD5275. I was finally able to identify the real audio chipset as the RealtekALC201. With that information I was able to search the internet for a Realtek ALC201OS/2 driver. It appears that Realtek has frequently updated drivers for their soundchipsets.System sounds and Wave files work with the latest OS/2Warp driver on Realtek's site, but the sound is speeded up, like playing a 33album at 78 speed if you remember the old vinyl record days. For some reason thesound only works in Warpvision if I set it to resample to 44Khz, but again I getsound but its all speeded up. Z!, an OS/2 MP3 player,also plays all songs at the speeded up rate. I have an email into Realtek support,but they haven't responded to my earlier posts when I could get no sound at all,so who knows.I can play Midi files with the Java app MultiShow,but these sound speeded up as well. Prior to that I tried installing TiMidity2.10.4, but that just caused an error whenever I tried to play a Midi file.I had thought I might try playing with VoiceType since the machine should beplenty fast enough to make that useful, but there is no builtin microphone. I hadthought this was standard on laptops nowadays. So this is at the bottom of my thingsto play with list for now.Considering it is billed as a "Multimedia Entertainment Notebook" Ifound the sound quality from the small, side mounted speakers a bit on the tinnyside, even under windoze. If I had a working OS/2 driver I'd be satisfied with itfor what it is, but I wouldn't rate this any where close to high fidelity sound.Hopefully Realtek will continue to update the existing OS/2 driver and fix my soundproblem.Networking/CommunicationsThere is a Realtek RT8139 10/100 NIC builtin which works with the RTL8139 OS/2 driver.The NIC only works with the default IRQ 10, which is the same IRQ used by the soundchipset. I can change the IRQ in PROTOCOL.INI, but I always get an error on boot.I'm not even using this NIC now (I'm using an IBM PCMCIA Wireless card instead),but I still have to have it defined in MPTS. The system only boots if the RTL8139driver is loaded and there is no way to turn off the NIC in the BIOS. Be sureto get the driver from Chuck McKinnis'NicPak website, as it is considerably newer then the one on the Realtek site.In fact there is pretty much nothing one can configure in the BIOS on this laptopother then enable the parallel, IrDA and serial ports. There is no way to controlIRQs or for that matter just about anything in the BIOS. Under windows there isconsiderable number of power related options one can set, but as far as I know,nothing exists under OS/2 for this. It must be related to the ACPI(Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) thing that I frequently see DanielaEngert talking about. According to the hardware pdf that Medion Support sent me,the MD5275 has ACPI 1.0b and uses a Wistron (formerly part of Acer) BIOS versionF29. Hmmm, the label says it was made in the Phillipines, and Wistron has a plantthere. Perhaps they are the real manufacturer.The builtin modem is a winmodem that is unrecognized by OS/2. I didn't spendmuch time on this either. According to PCI.exe, this is an Ambient TechnologiesCreatix V.90 HaM Modem. Pretty much a waste of silicon. I have a BestData 56K PCMCIAmodem that I have used quite successfully in the past with my Toshiba, but I onlyuse it when I'm traveling, which I do very infrequently now. I will have to testthis before I make my next trip though.PCMCIAThis works fine with the latest Cardbus driver for the Thinkpad (available on IBM'sSoftware Choice and on the eComStation site. I used the IBM2SS14.SYS socket servicesdriver which worked with this for PCMCIA support. Daniela Engert has a driveron hobbes for the Texas Instruments cardbus controllers as well. According toPCI.exe it is a TI chipset with a device ID of AC55h, which in Daniela's TI CardbusDriver Doc equates to a PCI1250 controller). I have only used an IBM High Rate wirelessPCMCIA card and an IBM external PCMCIA hard drive. Both work fine.Drives, ports and inputThis machine is a 3 spindle model (harddrive, floppy and also a QSI brand ATAPIDVD/CDRW drive). As noted above it has a 40GB, IBM Travelstar IDE drive, which atleast for now seems plenty big enough for my needs (though I still remember whenI thought 30MB was a huge amount of space).The QSI DVD/CDRW combination drive is a 8X8X24 CD writer. I had to search forthis bit of information on the Web, as neither the box, the manual nor the PDF Medionsupport sent me listed this. RSJ 4.05 works well with the CDRW drive, though I hadproblems with RSJ not attaching if a DVD was in the drive. I finally got aroundthat problem (which made it impossible to read DVD's with RSJ installed), by usingDANIATAPI.FLT.Speaking of DVD and Daniela, I can now use Warpvision(CLI and GUI) to play DVD movies, just no sound. I had problems playing encryptedDVD files until I updated my system to the latest DANIS506.ADDand DANIATAPI.FLT drivers. Now with all the DVDs I have tried, play is extremelysmooth, with CPU usage running between 40-70%. There is only an occasional lag,but I haven't seen any pixilation or display breakup as I had noted previously.Note that in the desktop capture below, I had paused Warpvision,so the CPU monitor in XCenter only shows 6.2%. In addition I am using the WarpOverlaydriver which enables hardware display overlay support when using the Scitechdisplay driver (SDD or SNAP). A great big thank you to the guys at KievElephant who made this possible and to Daniela Engert whose work makes our continueduse of OS/2 and eComStation so much more pleasant.Besides having a PS/2, VGA , serial, and parallel ports, this laptop also hasIrDA and firewire (PCI.exe shows it as Texas Instruments TSB43AB21 1394a-2000 OHCIPHY/link-layer Controller) ports. I haven't had a need to try any of these, andthere is currently no Firewire driver for OS/2 now anyway. It has 2 USB 1.1 UCHIports which work with the USB drivers available on the eCS site. I don't do muchwith USB though. Just a CF Flash reader, which doesn't seem to work well under anyOS/2-eCS system I try it on. The other is my Epson Photo 820 printer, which is recognizedand prints fine when I attach it.The keyboard is the typically cramped notebook layout, without a separate keypad.Overall it has a fairly nice feel to it. Besides the usual keys, there is a [Fn]function key which transforms some of the keys to modify hardware states, like turningspeakers on/off, blanking the display, putting the system in suspend mode, enablingthe TV out port, Numlock and scroll lock. Unfortunately it is also used for the[Home] and [End] keys which I use frequently,so that takes some getting used to. There are 5 "Easy Launch Keys" abovethe [F1]-[F12] function keys. These are like the old chicletkeys, but don't seem to function at all under eCS. Under Windows they run web, mail,PowerDVD, Nero (for burning CDs), and Microsoft Works (I always get a chuckle outof that obvious oxymoron). I downloaded the W95Key program from Hobbes, which includesa key scanning utility, and none of these five keys produces an entry.It has a Synaptics PS/2 port touchpad for a mouse, and besides the standard twomouse buttons, there is a 4way scroll button. So far I haven't been able to getthat to work with the latest OS/2 mouse driver or with Amouse.I have to admit I haven't spent much time on it though.PowerThe laptop is powered by a 12 cell Li-ion (Lithium ion) battery (5880mA) that seemsto hold a charge for a little over 3 hours or so. It also seems to recharge morequickly, about two hours to recharge from a fully depleted battery. Hopefully theLi-ion battery will not suffer from the progressively shorter useful charge or memory effect 1problem that plagues the NiCad battery in my Toshiba notebook.As previously noted, there is nothing related to power management in the systemBIOS configuration. eCS' APM doesn't do much. With APM enabled I can do a poweredshutdown, but suspend just causes the system to hang. Also you can turn off thedisplay screen by holding [Fn] and pressing[F4].Screen power comes back on by touching any key or the touchpad. Also the screenpowers off when you close the cover.ConclusionAll that being said, this brand is difficult to obtain in the US and I'm told itsnot widely distributed in Germany either, so I'm not sure what good this reportis to you. It does appear the exact same system may be available under a differentlabel. Anyway I thought I'd write this review just to let folks know that eCS willrun on something other than a Thinkpad and how I overcame some problems gettingeCS installed on it. I'm happy to be writing my article on this same machine. :-)BTW Medion support was decidedly unhelpful once I made it known I was using somethingother then windowsXP. All my questions were to try to clarify what was actuallyunder the covers of this box. They did provide timely responses to my questionsbut stated "We will support the Windows XP Home Operating System (whichcame pre-loaded on this product. Other OS's are not supported by us." .All-in-all I'd give the machine an overall grade of B-, which is a shame becauseit is a solidly built, and feature rich, especially for the price. This is mostlybecause of the BIOS lack of configurability, lack of anything but windoze supportfrom Medion, as well as the 15" screen only having a native resolution of 1024x768.I'm hoping newer Realtek sound drivers fix the sound problem, as Realtek has beenregularly updating the driver (last one as of this writing was 10/09/2002). TheBIOS/ACPI problem looks like one which will eventually have to be tackled if eCS-OS/2has a chance to continue to be installed on new machines. The machine itself ispretty nice, and runs eCS well once I figured out some of my initial install problems.Note 1: From webopedia.com:"Memory effect: The property of nickel-cadmium (NiCad) batteries that causesthem to lose their capacity for full recharging if they are discharged repeatedlythe same amount and then recharged without overcharge before they have fully drained.The term derives from the fact that the battery appears to have a memory for theamount of charging it can sustain."References:Medion MD5725 Titanium M1 Notebook
Developer: Medion ttp://www.medion.com
Price: $1,499 USDOther links referenced:
DFsee website -
PCI.exe version 0.47vk -
eComStation -
Chuck McKinnis' Nikpak site Realtek RTL8139 driver -
Scitech SNAP driver - _os2_content.html
Realtek ALC201 driver -
MultiShow -
TiMidity 2.10.4 - _2104.zip
ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) -
Daniela's Texas Instruments cardbus controller driver - -bin/h-search?key=ss2ticb
DANIATAPI.FLT - -bin/h-search?key=DANIATAPI
DANIS506.ADD - -bin/h-search?key=DANIS506
Warpvision -
WarpOverlay driver -
Kiev Elephant web site -
Amouse - _ms21en.htm [Feature Index]
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