Had a chat with HP the other day about my laptop...

[Bryce]

So, I was thinking of starting to use my laptop as I want to be out of the house but with a computer but my laptop has Vista on it. First, I got it as a graduation gift, but it had XP MCE on it first but HP replaced it for free because of all the problems with it (overheating, battery not charging, etc). So, long story short it's only got 1gb of RAM on it and Vista. I've wiped the drive and did a fresh install when I got it and uninstalled the bloatware they put on it, but it's still really slow. The chat I had with them was if they offered a downgrade to XP on it and they said no. Then I asked if they had the drivers for my model for XP, again they said we don't suggest you downgrade to XP it could break the system.

Now, does anyone think this will happen because I need a laptop but it's so damn slow you can't do **** on it. Should I try getting XP on it or upgrade the memory in it and just deal with Vista on it?

 

[Maka]

I don't see how putting XP on it could "break" it.

 

[Bryce]

That's what I thought. I guess I'll give it a try, just need to figure out how to slipstream SATA drivers into my install cd, something to do yay!

I still might upgrade the memory, as 1gb is nothing nowadays. To bad it only supports up to 2gb

 

[Maka]

It's worth a shot.It'll prolly run better with XP on it.I am still wondering how XP could break a system,makes me wanna call HP and ask them.

 

[Bryce]

They're like some of the drivers and features of the computer might not work in XP. I mean come on, does anyone actually use those quick keys on the computer anyways? I'm sure that's what they were talking about and there's got to be something out on the internet to get it working, right?

 

[Maka]

There's always a fix for anything on the internet.

 

[baarod]

So, I was thinking of starting to use my laptop as I want to be out of the house but with a computer but my laptop has Vista on it. First, I got it as a graduation gift, but it had XP MCE on it first but HP replaced it for free because of all the problems with it (overheating, battery not charging, etc). So, long story short it's only got 1gb of RAM on it and Vista. I've wiped the drive and did a fresh install when I got it and uninstalled the bloatware they put on it, but it's still really slow. The chat I had with them was if they offered a downgrade to XP on it and they said no. Then I asked if they had the drivers for my model for XP, again they said we don't suggest you downgrade to XP it could break the system.

Now, does anyone think this will happen because I need a laptop but it's so damn slow you can't do **** on it. Should I try getting XP on it or upgrade the memory in it and just deal with Vista on it?

How long's your warranty got left? Honestly, you'll get better software support right here. You can get a 2GB SO-DIMM for under $20 delivered (at least here in th US), put Windows 7 RC1 on it and be better off than either Vista or XP for about a year for essentially free. I'd go that route personally because I just can't stand to use any other OS anymore after using 7 for so long. I was even impressed at how bland and "uncool" OSX looked again after not having touched it in several months.

 

[Bryce]

Well, we were supposed to send my old laptop back when we got the replacement but we never did as we wanted to see if any problems came up on the new one. After about a year HP never asked for it and we still got both LOL, but the old one is def. fried now.

So, we're not on good terms with HP I don't think.

So, I guess I will go ahead and get 2x 1gb memory sticks, I've only got 512's in here now. Anyone think W7 RC1 will run fine on it? It's a AMD Turion Mobile 64, 1gb (well 2gb soon) RAM, nVidia Geforce XXX graphics (need to check on that), and a 120gb hard drive. Oh, and Broadcom BCM4311 wifi lol.

 

[black dog]

2 Gigs is heaps for XP. I recently replaced Vista with XP on a HP laptop and it runs fine with 512mb. Being new to fooling around with laptops, i was surprised at the great driver support and quality of manuals available at the HP site.
Good luck.

 

[Bryce]

It's got two 512's, so 1gb. I'm testing out XP on it now and see how good it runs.

 

[Maka]

XP runs on my other comp with only 256MB of RAM so i think you should be fine with it.

 

[baarod]

Well, we were supposed to send my old laptop back when we got the replacement but we never did as we wanted to see if any problems came up on the new one. After about a year HP never asked for it and we still got both LOL, but the old one is def. fried now.

So, we're not on good terms with HP I don't think.

So, I guess I will go ahead and get 2x 1gb memory sticks, I've only got 512's in here now. Anyone think W7 RC1 will run fine on it? It's a AMD Turion Mobile 64, 1gb (well 2gb soon) RAM, nVidia Geforce XXX graphics (need to check on that), and a 120gb hard drive. Oh, and Broadcom BCM4311 wifi lol.

Virtually the same specs as my son's Acer which has been running 7 fine (with quick keys!) since last year. Why 2 sticks? It won't handle 2GB sticks?

Use that other lappy for PARTS!

 

[Bryce]

It won't handle a single 2gb stick I don't think. I'm not that experienced with laptop hardware so I guess I'll go ask HP in a quick chat.

BTW, I just installed a slipstreamed XP Pro SP3 and it installed fine, but in the Device Manager under Other Devices, it's all yellow ?'s. So, now I need to either create a new slipstreamed disc with just my drivers on it or download em and I've got no spare Ethernet cable to do that with XD.

Anyone here good with slip streaming?

 

[Jacee]

My laptop came with 2 512 sticks of ram. We replaced them with 2 1gb ea. $109.98 plus tax, total. Vista runs fast and very good on that machine .... oh and it orginally came with XP pro.

 

[Maka]

It won't handle a single 2gb stick I don't think. I'm not that experienced with laptop hardware so I guess I'll go ask HP in a quick chat.

BTW, I just installed a slipstreamed XP Pro SP3 and it installed fine, but in the Device Manager under Other Devices, it's all yellow ?'s. So, now I need to either create a new slipstreamed disc with just my drivers on it or download em and I've got no spare Ethernet cable to do that with XD.

Anyone here good with slip streaming?

Why slipstream it?

 

[Bryce]

Anyone think this laptop would have Intel SATA drives in it? The only SATA drivers I can find are Intel lol

 

[Jacee]

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[baarod]

Anyone think this laptop would have Intel SATA drives in it? The only SATA drivers I can find are Intel lol

It's not the drives you need drivers for, it's the SATA controller. I'm assuming nVidia chipset given the rest of your hardware. You should really just put 7 on there right now, and bypass all that goofing around with XP. Wanna try it? PM me

 

[Bryce]

I installed build 7000 on it a while back but it just ran slow. And it's only got 1gb of RAM right now so all that really is fast on it is XP -_-. Not to mention I couldn't find the drivers for it for W7 so it looked ugly.

Also, you can't slipstream Windows 7 yet can you?

 

[baarod]

I installed build 7000 on it a while back but it just ran slow. And it's only got 1gb of RAM right now so all that really is fast on it is XP -_-. Not to mention I couldn't find the drivers for it for W7 so it looked ugly.

Also, you can't slipstream Windows 7 yet can you?

Sure can. And 7077 prolly has the drivers already in it. What's your model number?