IPASON P3 Laptop (N200 CPU) - Driver Pack

operating-system · driver · Windows

Drivers for the IPASON P3 Laptop equipped with the Intel N200 CPU. Sometime referred as the Storm Dragon P3. This driver pack works best on a clean Windows 11 Install. Instructions: Doing a fresh install of Windows: Works on a fresh install of Windows 11. Do not connect to any network before installing this driver pack to avoid Windows from installing their drivers. The touchpad won’t work out of the box. You might need an external USB mouse to do the installation if you are unfamiliar how to navigate the setup process with just the keyboard. After Windows fully installs from your usb and reboots to the initial setup screen, do not setup any user accounts, or install anything else until you install the driver pack. Continue with the below instructions. Installing the driver pack: After doing the fresh install of Windows 11, your laptop will reboot into a Setup screen. Press CTRL+Shift+F3 to enter Audit mode. The laptop will restart. Once the Laptop boots to the desktop, a pop-up will appear. Close this. Navigate to the USB folder where you downloaded this driver pack. If not already sone so, you will need to uncompress/extract the files from the .zip file. Run the “idm_app” application. This will setup all the devices on the laptop. The utility is in Chinese. Just keep clicking on the blue button to continue to install all the drivers. Be patient, this will take several minutes. Once done, reboot the laptop to make sure everything is working. Once the system is rebooted, a popup will appear. You will want to choose to restart the laptop and enter the OOBE experience. Now continue setting up the user accounts for Windows 11 from there, just as you would with any normal laptop. TO RUN LINUX INSTEAD OF WIDOWS: If you want to try Linux on this machine, most of the hardware will work on a modern kernel like 7.0 or above, but you will need to adjust some settings for it to recognize the audio chip. Because the sound chip is connected via the I2C bus instead of the standard audio bus, the Linux kernel doesn't automatically detect it properly, resulting in "Dummy Output". Here is the exact step-by-step fix that gets I2C/ES8336 audio working on Ubuntu 24.04-based systems like Linux Mint 22.3. Step 1: Install the custom ALSA UCM files The Linux sound system (ALSA) needs a specific configuration file (called a UCM topology) to know how to map the inputs and outputs for this specific chip. Open your terminal and run these commands one by one to download and install a community-made fix for this exact hardware: cd ~ git clone https://github.com/hello2himel/linux-audio-fix.git (If it says git is not installed, install it first with sudo apt install git) Now enter the folder and run the script: bash cd linux-audio-fix chmod +x AudioFix.sh ./AudioFix.sh This script will copy the necessary sof-essx8336 topology files to /usr/share/alsa/ucm2 so Linux knows how to use the chip. Step 2: Force the Kernel to use the SOF driver Because this is an I2C device, the standard snd_hda_intel driver will never find it. We need to force the kernel to use the Intel SOF (Sound Open Firmware) driver, which is built to handle I2S/I2C connections. Open your GRUB configuration file: sudo nano /etc/default/grub Find the line that looks like GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash". Change it so it includes the dsp_driver=3 parameter, which forces the SOF driver: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash snd_intel_dspcfg.dsp_driver=3" Save the file (Ctrl+O, Enter, Ctrl+X). Update GRUB so the changes take effect: sudo update-grub Step 3: Add the ES8336 Quirks Sometimes the system needs an extra hint about how the chip is wired to the motherboard. Create an ALSA configuration file to pass this quirk: sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf Paste this exact line at the bottom of the file: options snd_soc_sof_8336 quirk=0x01 Save and exit (Ctrl+O, Enter, Ctrl+X). Step 4: Reboot and Test Now reboot your laptop: sudo reboot When you log back in, go to your Sound Settings. You should no longer see "Dummy Output", but rather your actual speakers.