1700 Vostro with XP - Page 5

Magoo2006 · 12-11-2007, 01:13 PM

Hi Thanks for the instructions. I did however find one slight problem, I got to the point where I select service pack 2, which it slipstreamed and then when I tried to add the drivers the only one that came up that resembled what you said was icha8m-E. I guess once the process is complete I can choose the option to crate a bootable ISO using the stuff that has been saved?

SpeedDMN · 12-11-2007, 01:46 PM

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Originally Posted by SRTDodge05

The things you have to do to make the parents happy. This is the the third and final laptop im reloading, remove vista and put xp pro.

My mom got both my brother and my sister laptops similar to mine (HP dv9000t). It was a good price on Ebay. Both come with XP MCE and I have no plans to switch them to Vista. However they come with 2g of RAM and I only have 1g. You never know, one of the 2g kits could mysteriously fall out of one of them and land in my DIMMs. I mean these things happen

3 of 7 · 12-11-2007, 01:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Magoo2006

Hi Thanks for the instructions. I did however find one slight problem, I got to the point where I select service pack 2, which it slipstreamed and then when I tried to add the drivers the only one that came up that resembled what you said was icha8m-E. I guess once the process is complete I can choose the option to crate a bootable ISO using the stuff that has been saved?

I think you had to select "make bootable ISO" at the begining, but let it do it's thing and see if you have the option at the end..

3 of 7 · 12-11-2007, 01:56 PM

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Originally Posted by SpeedDMN

My mom got both my brother and my sister laptops similar to mine (HP dv9000t). It was a good price on Ebay. Both come with XP MCE and I have no plans to switch them to Vista. However they come with 2g of RAM and I only have 1g. You never know, one of the 2g kits could mysteriously fall out of one of them and land in my DIMMs. I mean these things happen

My Wife's Gateway got here yesterday, nice laptop 17" too.. got a refurb from tiger direct for $499 it's a 1.6 Yonah with 160g HD... Vista Home Premium.... Gonna play with Vista for a few days before XPeeing it too..

SpeedDMN · 12-11-2007, 02:14 PM

Nice!

Yeah the ones I got were refurbished with a 3 month warranty. 1.6g C2D (T5200) plus 2 x 100g HDDs. Unfortunately at 5400RPM's. Kinda hard to find one that comes with a 7200. They have the dual lamp UltraBright display I really like on mine plus 2g's of RAM and a Geforce Go 7600 256mb (though one is going to drop to 1g of RAM somehow I think) 1g is plenty for XP IMHO but Vista could use 2 for sure. For around $860 each with shipping I thought it was a decent deal especially since mine was about twice that last year with less specs though I did get the T7200 @ 2.0g. It's definitely going to be an electronics kinda Christmas this year. I just hope I get the 1080p plasma I want!

3 of 7 · 12-11-2007, 03:53 PM

There are gonna be a ton of Vista laptops for refurb... Vista simply suxors with a gig of ram compared to XP and the damned system is unstable..
This morning I was walking a customer through printing multiple pictures using Vistas photo gallery and the first time I opened the pic it opened with vista photo gallery, the second time it used office picture and fax viewer ..
I laughed because I don't "Have" to use Vista... But I would be totally ****** if I was stuck with it..
3 systems XPee'd this month so far..

*SRTDodge05* · 12-11-2007, 03:57 PM

Xp seems to work a lot better on the laptops then vista does. Im fine with vista on my pc and i wasnt happy with it on the 3 laptops.

SpeedDMN · 12-11-2007, 04:31 PM

Actually Vista runs pretty good on my lappy. The main problem is it wont standby without giving a black screen I can't recover from after resuming. I tried a bunch of different "fixes", but nothing seems to work. The Areo looks beautiful on the bright screen so I have kept it. I don't care what anyone says, it's Vista's only real strong point. Building for someone else I would likely install XP unless they specified otherwise. I am seriously considering going back to XP on the desktop for gaming reasons. I need to make a SP2,RAID/SATA slipstreamed disk one of these days. Not sure what I will install on the new rig yet. probably Vista with a DX10.1 card. I'm figuring I might as well wait for prices to drop on the Penryns etc. while I'm waiting for the Nvidia 9 series to come out. February!

Magoo2006 · 12-12-2007, 04:49 AM

Aah, getting a step closer now! The machine has started to load XP, but there is a hitch now, it won't go any further than 65% and keeps asking me to ensure the Windows XP CD is in the CDROM Drive; can't move on from this point.

*SRTDodge05* · 12-12-2007, 08:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Magoo2006

Aah, getting a step closer now! The machine has started to load XP, but there is a hitch now, it won't go any further than 65% and keeps asking me to ensure the Windows XP CD is in the CDROM Drive; can't move on from this point.

Mite be a bad disc, try to make a new one.

3 of 7 · 12-12-2007, 08:21 AM

Try burning your disc slower..

*SRTDodge05* · 12-12-2007, 08:27 AM

I normaly burn mine around 16x because i keep forgeting to change it.

Magoo2006 · 12-12-2007, 12:58 PM

Hi all. Well, got XP on my Vostro, just having some trouble now with drivers. Even though I've downloaded them from the Dell site I'm having trouble getting them installed! Anyway, I've downloaded the drivers yet again and will have a go at loading them again, just in case I have accidentally downloaded the wrong ones!

*SRTDodge05* · 12-12-2007, 01:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Magoo2006

Hi all. Well, got XP on my Vostro, just having some trouble now with drivers. Even though I've downloaded them from the Dell site I'm having trouble getting them installed! Anyway, I've downloaded the drivers yet again and will have a go at loading them again, just in case I have accidentally downloaded the wrong ones!

I had a hell of a time finding drivers for my hp, it took me 4 different hp model laptop drivers to get them.

3 of 7 · 12-12-2007, 03:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Magoo2006

Hi all. Well, got XP on my Vostro, just having some trouble now with drivers. Even though I've downloaded them from the Dell site I'm having trouble getting them installed! Anyway, I've downloaded the drivers yet again and will have a go at loading them again, just in case I have accidentally downloaded the wrong ones!

Have a look at the first 2 posts in this thread, I put the links to the drivers that work there.

12-11-2007, 01:13 PM	#61
Magoo2006 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 29	Re: 1700 Vostro with XP Hi Thanks for the instructions. I did however find one slight problem, I got to the point where I select service pack 2, which it slipstreamed and then when I tried to add the drivers the only one that came up that resembled what you said was icha8m-E. I guess once the process is complete I can choose the option to crate a bootable ISO using the stuff that has been saved?
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12-11-2007, 02:14 PM	#65
SpeedDMN Silicon Avatar Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Hyde Park, NY Posts: 2,927	Re: 1700 Vostro with XP Nice! Yeah the ones I got were refurbished with a 3 month warranty. 1.6g C2D (T5200) plus 2 x 100g HDDs. Unfortunately at 5400RPM's. Kinda hard to find one that comes with a 7200. They have the dual lamp UltraBright display I really like on mine plus 2g's of RAM and a Geforce Go 7600 256mb (though one is going to drop to 1g of RAM somehow I think) 1g is plenty for XP IMHO but Vista could use 2 for sure. For around $860 each with shipping I thought it was a decent deal especially since mine was about twice that last year with less specs though I did get the T7200 @ 2.0g. It's definitely going to be an electronics kinda Christmas this year. I just hope I get the 1080p plasma I want! __________________
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12-11-2007, 03:53 PM	#66
3 of 7 You can run..... Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 4,618	Re: 1700 Vostro with XP There are gonna be a ton of Vista laptops for refurb... Vista simply suxors with a gig of ram compared to XP and the damned system is unstable.. This morning I was walking a customer through printing multiple pictures using Vistas photo gallery and the first time I opened the pic it opened with vista photo gallery, the second time it used office picture and fax viewer .. I laughed because I don't "Have" to use Vista... But I would be totally ****** if I was stuck with it.. 3 systems XPee'd this month so far..
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12-11-2007, 03:57 PM	#67
SRTDodge05 Grab Life By The Balls Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Michigan Posts: 7,817	Re: 1700 Vostro with XP Xp seems to work a lot better on the laptops then vista does. Im fine with vista on my pc and i wasnt happy with it on the 3 laptops.
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12-11-2007, 04:31 PM	#68
SpeedDMN Silicon Avatar Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Hyde Park, NY Posts: 2,927	Re: 1700 Vostro with XP Actually Vista runs pretty good on my lappy. The main problem is it wont standby without giving a black screen I can't recover from after resuming. I tried a bunch of different "fixes", but nothing seems to work. The Areo looks beautiful on the bright screen so I have kept it. I don't care what anyone says, it's Vista's only real strong point. Building for someone else I would likely install XP unless they specified otherwise. I am seriously considering going back to XP on the desktop for gaming reasons. I need to make a SP2,RAID/SATA slipstreamed disk one of these days. Not sure what I will install on the new rig yet. probably Vista with a DX10.1 card. I'm figuring I might as well wait for prices to drop on the Penryns etc. while I'm waiting for the Nvidia 9 series to come out. February! __________________
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12-12-2007, 04:49 AM	#69
Magoo2006 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 29	Re: 1700 Vostro with XP Aah, getting a step closer now! The machine has started to load XP, but there is a hitch now, it won't go any further than 65% and keeps asking me to ensure the Windows XP CD is in the CDROM Drive; can't move on from this point.
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12-12-2007, 08:21 AM	#71
3 of 7 You can run..... Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 4,618	Re: 1700 Vostro with XP Try burning your disc slower..
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12-12-2007, 08:27 AM	#72
SRTDodge05 Grab Life By The Balls Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Michigan Posts: 7,817	Re: 1700 Vostro with XP I normaly burn mine around 16x because i keep forgeting to change it.
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12-12-2007, 12:58 PM	#73
Magoo2006 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 29	Re: 1700 Vostro with XP Hi all. Well, got XP on my Vostro, just having some trouble now with drivers. Even though I've downloaded them from the Dell site I'm having trouble getting them installed! Anyway, I've downloaded the drivers yet again and will have a go at loading them again, just in case I have accidentally downloaded the wrong ones!
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