Author Topic: stupid stupid vista (Read 9499 times)

heffay · « **Reply #100 on:** April 09, 2009, 08:35:01 PM »

uhhhhhh.... i have no idea where to start.

mlinder · « **Reply #101 on:** April 09, 2009, 08:38:25 PM »

What brand of computer is it?

heffay · « **Reply #102 on:** April 09, 2009, 08:41:31 PM »

hp

so... just go to the hp website w/ the model number and it should tell me?

mlinder · « **Reply #103 on:** April 09, 2009, 08:44:27 PM »

Quote from: heffay on April 09, 2009, 08:41:31 PM

hp

so... just go to the hp website w/ the model number and it should tell me?

Yep. 'support and drivers' to 'download driver and software (and firmware)' to 'Enter a product name / number'

fuzzybutt · « **Reply #104 on:** April 09, 2009, 08:45:02 PM »

mlinder · « **Reply #105 on:** April 09, 2009, 08:46:11 PM »

* mlinder wanders off to read a book...

333 · « **Reply #106 on:** April 09, 2009, 08:48:22 PM »

HP lists optional and required drivers for each model. Start with the required ones, and check for which monitor driver you need.

heffay · « **Reply #107 on:** April 09, 2009, 08:51:09 PM »

mlinder... you da man!

ev0lve · « **Reply #108 on:** April 09, 2009, 08:58:07 PM »

Freaking RAM issue (silently stuffs note card in ear for future reference)

heffay · « **Reply #109 on:** April 09, 2009, 09:06:58 PM »

sooo... evidently vista can get around this ram issue while xp can not?

mlinder · « **Reply #110 on:** April 09, 2009, 09:14:55 PM »

Vista should not be able to 'get around' this issue. I suppose it was installed with matching memory, then someone later put in that 2 gig stick.
OS's constantly are sending information back and forth through the memory. When you have errors in the RAM, you started getting a bit of gibberish back. That gibberish gets written back as fact. That bad fact, as well as new bad facts, get sent through the #$%*storm again, turning into more gibberish, which eventually turns into a landslide of whatthefsckery after a bit. Eventually, #$%* stops working.

heffay · « **Reply #111 on:** April 09, 2009, 09:18:28 PM »

so... basically... HP knows better?
no way they would've done it from the factory?

mlinder · « **Reply #112 on:** April 09, 2009, 09:22:27 PM »

Quote from: heffay on April 09, 2009, 09:18:28 PM

so... basically... HP knows better?
no way they would've done it from the factory?

Not without making a very large mistake, no.

heffay · « **Reply #113 on:** April 09, 2009, 09:22:30 PM »

hmmmm... drivers are for vista and vista64 only.

mlinder · « **Reply #114 on:** April 09, 2009, 09:27:40 PM »

Ha!

Yeah, welcome to vista, heffay

Lot of OEM manufacturers stopped writing drivers for XP about a year ago.
You could, if you really felt like it, track down each component in the machine, and probably find manufacturer XP drivers.
Such as, chipset drivers for the motherboard (likely at intel.com), video drivers (dunno what ya got in there, maybe onboard, which woudl also be at intel.com), sound drivers, etc.... good luck

heffay · « **Reply #115 on:** April 09, 2009, 09:32:38 PM »

i need an internet driver!

mlinder · « **Reply #116 on:** April 09, 2009, 09:35:17 PM »

Yeah. It's onboard ethernet, right?

It's either intel or broadcom, most likely....

You could just install vista gain.... then you'd have easy access to all the drivers....

heffay · « **Reply #117 on:** April 09, 2009, 09:39:11 PM »

linder... sometimes you da man... and some times you have really dumb ideas.

now... how do i check all this stuff... do i manually have to pull the computer apart?

heffay · « **Reply #118 on:** April 09, 2009, 09:39:58 PM »

if you have a 32 bit vista... i wouldn't be opposed.

mlinder · « **Reply #119 on:** April 09, 2009, 09:41:57 PM »

Find out what the chipset is. Prolly, I dunno wtf it is. It's nto in front of me.
Start there.

heffay · « **Reply #120 on:** April 09, 2009, 09:43:56 PM »

i asked it... it didn't answer

mlinder · « **Reply #121 on:** April 09, 2009, 09:46:18 PM »

Goin to sleep. Good luck finding drivers for XP on that machine

heffay · « **Reply #122 on:** April 09, 2009, 09:46:29 PM »

intel g33express chipset hp website says.

heffay · « **Reply #123 on:** April 09, 2009, 09:46:59 PM »

damn sleepers...

you rock linder.

thanks.

mlinder · « **Reply #124 on:** April 10, 2009, 08:22:52 AM »

How'd it go for you so far, heffay?

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Author Topic: stupid stupid vista (Read 9499 times)

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