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Strange VISTA to XP conversion problem
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Strange VISTA to XP conversion problem
Friday, March 20, 2009 at 6:51 pm
Posted by John Vining
(3 messages posted)
I bought a Compaq Presario notebook, model CQ60z with VISTA basic. My spouse runs
a small business and uses a particular program for her orders and inventory. This
program will not run on VISTA (I found out after the fact). I ordered XP pro for
laptop and installed it. Her program runs perfectly!!!
The rest of the stuff, not so much. I no longer have sound and the display is very
funky. I also had no network. I had to buy a USB NIC device to get online. All
displays open or change with an effect similar to slowly pulling up or down a window
shade. Also, when I first turn on the PC, there are waves of different shades of
blue screen flowing across the screen from top to bottom. She can live with both,
but I can’t. I tried to “upgrade” or “downgrade” the display driver, with terrible
results. The driver is for NVidia 8200M, 32 bit xp. After the install, I got many
errors (most with that awful loud BEEP from the default PC sound device, not the
audio device that doesn’t work). I had to go back to a previous point via system
restore to get back to the original funky display.
When I called HP (Compaq), they said that I could not run XP on that hardware. They
said that I was out of luck.
Does anyone have any ideas as to how I can at least get the display to work correctly?
BTW, the USB NIC also causes some slowdown of the pointer during online times, or
maybe that is part of the display problem.
Thanks in advance, TeamanFL
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re: Strange VISTA to XP conversion problem
Friday, March 20, 2009 at 7:28 pm
Posted by Steve
(23811 messages posted)
Laptop Drivers are proprietary, and a check of the Compaq Web site didn't turn up
much in the way of XP Drivers for the model number you posted, so you will probably
just have to live with it.
You could look for a similar model Compaq from
a few years back if they made one, and just experiment with some of the XP Drivers
from way back.
If the Laptop has a big enough Drive you could also make a
Dual boot setup, with a Crippled XP install on one Small Partition, and a fully functional
Vista on the Bigger Partition.
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re: Strange VISTA to XP conversion problem
Friday, March 20, 2009 at 8:06 pm
Posted by Jacob6601
(2174 messages posted)
The first link is the vista drivers. You should be able to identify all of your hardwre
through it. The second link was found using "NVIDIA GeForce 8200M G". Those guys
seem to have found your drivers. Burn the drivers (with instructions) to a cd after
you know they work!
http://h10025.www1.hp...product=3837674
http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=20775
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re: Strange VISTA to XP conversion problem
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 2:49 pm
Posted by John Vining
(3 messages posted)
WOW! That did it. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!
My screen is perfect! My mouse movement is perfect! The overall system performance
is great! Teaman
On Friday, March 20, 2009 at 8:06 pm, Jacob6601 wrote:
>The first link is the vista drivers. You should be able to identify all of your
hardwre
>through it. The second link was found using "NVIDIA GeForce 8200M G". Those guys
>seem to have found your drivers. Burn the drivers (with instructions) to a cd after
>you know they work!
>http://h10025.www1.hp...product=3837674
>http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=20775
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