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re: (Not responding) Sunday, June 1, 2008 at 6:48 am Posted by Johnb33 (2283 messages posted) Even though most of the drivers for that laptop isn't on the download page for XP, you should be able to find them. Your problem might not be Vista though. Could be a hardware problem, not sure what it could be though besides the keyboard. How much system memory does it have? On Saturday, May 31, 2008 at 9:45 pm, Gary wrote: >It is absolutely amazing how terrible of an operating system Vista really is. I >have a six month old HP Pavilion DV9420CA Notebook dual Turion CPU that is slower >than my first 286. >I cannot click on one single thing that does not give me an (not responding) message. > Then I have to wait up to 8 minutes for the computer to catch up with the commands. >Even writing this message I have to write a sentence and wait up to 50 seconds for >the words to show on the screen. Only the worst programmers in the universe could >have written this freaking piece of crap. >I run up to date AVG and adaware, and highjack this and everything shows ok, yet >this pile of beetle dung is still extremely slow. >Plus it will not allow me to access most folders it feels I have no right to. >If I format the hard drive with a boot CD , can I load XP and get this thing to work? >Or will I not be able to get the drivers i need. >Only other answer is to switch to a Mac like thousands of smart people are doing. >I cannot believe Microsoft would produce this kind of work, not hard to tell Bill >has left the building. >I simply cannot believe a sane person would willingly chose this operating system >without a gun to their head. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: (Not responding) Sunday, June 1, 2008 at 6:50 am Posted by Charlie Hadden (1338 messages posted) Actually Vista is one of the best MS offerings yet. It is very stable with the few exceptions of people hacking their system to make it do things they have no clue what they are doing and 3rd parts JUNK that we put on it to make it blow chunks. As far as Applesauce goes just about everyone I know using one has Vista as their primary OS as OS X kitty just doesn't cut it. Try from a fresh start and leave everything that is not MS off of it for a while till you get things stable. Also after a fresh install it has been suggested that you let the thing run in the background for a couple of days till it sorts out all of the file system and such. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: (Not responding) Sunday, June 1, 2008 at 7:58 am Posted by Jacob6601 (2174 messages posted) I believe hp is offering xp recovery discs (without a key, though) after outcry about piss-ta. Those would have drivers, so I would look on their site more closely for them. Also, hardware does not change that quickly, so I am sure you will find something that will run your equipment. The biggest concerns are your SATA drivers (which should be in BIOS for that new a pc) and making sure you can get dual-processor support. I would partition the drive and run a test install on d: (taking notes) so that when you set it up as permanent you can get it right. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: (Not responding) Sunday, June 1, 2008 at 4:48 pm Posted by Gary (34 messages posted) Charlie, I do appreciate your help and even your acceptance of Vista, but you must know you are in a very small minority. Vista sucks and that is that. Just the fact you suggest reloading the OS, letting it run a few days to get used to things is not how a computer is supposed to work. Other than Office and Corel i have nothing else on my computer. And denying me access to many many folders is not to stop people from playing, it is to control me and track what I do. Simple privacy issues. I do not use one single program that I have used for years on 98SE, ME and XP. To suggest that anything other than loading the OS and using the computer simply shows how crappy and unstable it is. But please continue to reply to my posts and questions. I really do appreciate you care and help. On Sunday, June 1, 2008 at 6:50 am, Charlie Hadden wrote: > >Actually Vista is one of the best MS offerings yet. It is very stable with the few >exceptions of people hacking their system to make it do things they have no clue >what they are doing and 3rd parts JUNK that we put on it to make it blow chunks. >As far as Applesauce goes just about everyone I know using one has Vista as their >primary OS as OS X kitty just doesn't cut it. Try from a fresh start and leave everything >that is not MS off of it for a while till you get things stable. Also after a fresh >install it has been suggested that you let the thing run in the background for a >couple of days till it sorts out all of the file system and such. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: (Not responding) Monday, June 2, 2008 at 10:20 pm Posted by Jacob6601 (2174 messages posted) Check this thread about "Setup did not find any hard disk drives" for sata. http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/1212455594 [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Vista Discussion Forum