Vista problams?

[silentrunner]

I just read that you could encounter serious problems if you try to switch a Compaq or Hp laptop from Vista to XP is this true.

[Wolfehunter]

Originally Posted by silentrunner

I just read that you could encounter serious problems if you try to switch a Compaq or Hp laptop from Vista to XP is this true.

Has to do with the bios I believe... or the way Vista installs its partitions on the HD? I could be wrong. I know Vista does something to it. I read it some where a year ago. Details in my mind are vague... I made my choice a year ago to take on Vista so I didn't look back since.

Just don't take my word for it just yet. Look at the forum for HP and laptops. Look at any issue relating.

Sorry I can't help you more on that.

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by silentrunner

I just read that you could encounter serious problems if you try to switch a Compaq or Hp laptop from Vista to XP is this true.

Print out a description of device drivers from Device Manager. Check to see if their are drivers for all your hardware. No drivers = bad experience during a rollback for obvious reasons. If there are drivers for all hardware under XP, should be no problem!

-S

[silentrunner]

I am highly considering Wolfhunter's advice. If I could get Vista to actually work I would be very happy because I could save money, and Have the Vista look. But right now I feel like I did when I had a Mac, it was cool looking but I couldn't get anything done.

[Wolfehunter]

silentrunner, I'm here to help you because I know how you feel. When something doesn't work on my computer I don't sleep till my baby is puring just right.

But you have to help me too. You didn't answer any of my questions on the information I need to help you with. Right now I'm shooting a 12 gauge rounds and maybe missing. I would like to know the error messages, your system specs. When did you see this all start? Was there an upgrade or a mod or some software you installed that changed the way your computers behaviour? What antivirus program are you using. Are you using a program like Spybot to kill adwares. Do you have any hardware issues?

If all else fails then format your hardrive and reinstall Vista. Did you get a recovery disk from HP or do you have to buy one? If you have to buy one don't format yet. Wait because if you don't get the dvd then your screwed.

Lastly if your worried about personal info about your computer you can PM me and I will not release any info about you and your system. ok

or email me at wolfethor@yahoo.ca

Peace dude. I will tell you what I know about Vista 32.

One more thing you can do to see what errors your having. Vista Ultima has a cool feature in Administrative Tools in the Control Panel.

Try to find Event Viewer.

This shows every log Vista record when thing happen in your computer. Even if you don't see it when something happens or vista doesn't tell you. Its all here.

look below,


Do you have this in your premium version?

[silentrunner]

Okay so I have a Compaq Presario F 700 notebook with
957mb of RAM
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor
And I have an NVIDIA n force networking controller.

I use Avast antivirus, but I also have Windows Defender. When the problem occurred I did the most thorough scan I could do and Avast didn't see anything.

Thanks for telling me about the Event viewer, I think I found the source of the problem. My PC was working fine I turned it off and when I turned it on the next day my WLAN was not working. In event viewer at the same time I turned off my pc there is an error that says WLAN auto config has successfully stopped. Is this the problem?

Thanks for all the help you guys are giving me

[Wolfehunter]

Originally Posted by silentrunner

Okay so I have a Compaq Presario F 700 notebook with
957mb of RAM
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor
And I have an NVIDIA n force networking controller.

I use Avast antivirus, but I also have Windows Defender. When the problem occurred I did the most thorough scan I could do and Avast didn't see anything.

Thanks for telling me about the Event viewer, I think I found the source of the problem. My PC was working fine I turned it off and when I turned it on the next day my WLAN was not working. In event viewer at the same time I turned off my pc there is an error that says WLAN auto config has successfully stopped. Is this the problem?

Thanks for all the help you guys are giving me

Thanks.

Your problem is ram. you have 1024megs of ram. Your bios is reserving some of it to the video card. 957 to play with using Vista is bad very bad.

Most modern games us about 1gigs of ram on there own to work and some other newer one use alot more.

Before you do any formating or installing GET ram. Find out what type you have in your laptop. Best option is ordering from HP give them your S/N number and model number so they can give you the proper memory.

If you have two different memory chip brands or if there specs are different. Vista dosn't like that and you will get errors. SO its important that RAM is the same in every way possible. Ideally Dual channel but thats more expensive. Other option is just buying one bigger ram chip and changing it.

I would ask you to try to find out what RAM chip you have in your notbook. If its hidden then you will have to rely HP technicians then do so. But make sure they understand that you need the same type or ram chips.

So try to get minimum 2gigs but for laptops 3gigs is better. Perfect system is 4gig if you can afford it.

untill then your just out of luck like my wife has a Sony Viao and she has 1gig of ram plus 128megs of video ram. She can't play the newer addons for Sim 2 because its too much for her system. Sometimes her system runs soo slow. Ram is the key for Vista and even XP.

That is your only real issue at the moment. Then I will show you a trick with Vista to divert more avaible ram to run game etc. But you need at least 2 gigs.

Good luck dude.