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re: Installing XP Home plus SP3 from scratch. Sunday, October 25, 2009 at 7:56 am Posted by Steve (22233 messages posted) The Laptop was made a couple years before XP was developed. My bet is Packard Bell never developed XP Drivers for it. If they did make Drivers, then install 512 MB of Ram, and should run OK. Another option is try a Install of Linux on it as is. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Installing XP Home plus SP3 from scratch. Sunday, October 25, 2009 at 8:00 am Posted by Adam Bradley (8186 messages posted) Go to Packard Bell's support section and look up the model number, get the drivers from there. A few things however, the existing license may not work with your new CD however so do your homework and double check that first. And with those specks the laptop will always be slow with XP, regardless of the SP or how it is installed. 256 megs of RAM is the minimum that is practical for any real usability and 512 to a gig is better, it can use 192 just to sit there and let you look at the desktop. On Sunday, October 25, 2009 at 7:33 am, Ray wrote: >Packard Bell Easy Note Laptop ... AMD Sepron ... XP home + SP2 ... IE7 Proc 3100 >793MHz ... 192mb ram ... and extremely slow .... When I last asked about this computer, >it belonged to a friend of mine at the time ...... she has since given it to me -----Ricer46 >wrote ..... Maybe it can be upgraded, might be difficult to track down the info for >it though ----- I have it in mind to put XP home plus SP3 onto the machine from scratch >using the existing licence ..... My question is .... Is it practical to find and >copy the basic drivers from the laptop onto a memory stick in order to get the machine >running after the format.....Thank you very much, Ray [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Installing XP Home plus SP3 from scratch. Sunday, October 25, 2009 at 8:21 am Posted by Ray (89 messages posted) Thank you Steve and Adam It does have XP Home + SP2 from new. I found the PBell page and all the drivers seem to be there :) If I can get the machine to run without all the rubbish on it I shall splash out on some more memory. I'll make a start ..... Ray [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 XP Discussion Forum