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Gateway 200 ARC and Vista?
I was going to install Vista Home Basic onto my Gateway 200 ARC laptop. I
replace the 40 Gb original Hitachi HD with Windows XP Pro on it with a squeaky clean Hitachi 120 Gb drive and started the installation of Vista Home Basic. I already knew the video wouldn't suppor Aero. I got an error screen saying the computer is not ACPI compliant. OK. I put the original Hitachi 40 Gb drive back into the computer, booted XP Pro, went to Gateway support and got the latest BIOS, flashed the BIOS (Gateway #9527736 dated 07/13/2004) and did the whole thing over again with the same result. The larger drive is needed if I am to continue using the coputer as I have just about maxed out the 40 Gigger. Is there any way around this or should I just use the 120 Gb drive, put XP Pro on it and go buy another laptop if I want Vista? Frankly, with the other two computers in the house running Vista (one as a dual-boot spends as much time running XP as it does Vista) I'm not all that impressed with Vista. Any comments of a helpful nature would be appreciated. Turner |
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