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E1245 and Vista drivers
Where do I get them? Tried a couple of times to upgrade to Vista Home Basic
but none of the on-board devices is recognised. I tried downloading the Via drivers from ViaArena but this had no effect. Everything slows to a crawl while it tries (unsuccessfully) to find drivers. Has anyone succeeded in putting Vista on an E1245 Notebook? Ian |
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"Ian James" wrote in message ... Where do I get them? Tried a couple of times to upgrade to Vista Home Basic but none of the on-board devices is recognised. I tried downloading the Via drivers from ViaArena but this had no effect. Everything slows to a crawl while it tries (unsuccessfully) to find drivers. Has anyone succeeded in putting Vista on an E1245 Notebook? Ian Ian, You should have run the Vista Upgrade Advisor *BEFORE* you attempted to install the Vista OS on the Notebook. Even with a top of the line lap top (I have an IBM) it found many things were not compatible. Hopefully you can un-install and get back to where you were before all the Vista woes. Elector |
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"Elector" wrote in message news:gfrSh.7517$hb3.358@trndny01... Snip Ian, You should have run the Vista Upgrade Advisor *BEFORE* you attempted to install the Vista OS on the Notebook. Even with a top of the line lap top (I have an IBM) it found many things were not compatible. Hopefully you can un-install and get back to where you were before all the Vista woes. Elector Yeah did that and it said Home Basic would work! Luckily, I took an image of the disk *before* I tried the upgrade (using Acronis True Image 9) Still want to put Vista on it though. Ian |
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E1245 and Vista drivers
Save yourself even more grief and aggravation. Stick with XP for a while, until
Vista SP1, more compatible applications and more drivers are available. Vista Home Basic offers very little, if any, improvement over XP SP2... Ben Myers On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 19:26:33 +0100, "Ian James" wrote: "Elector" wrote in message news:gfrSh.7517$hb3.358@trndny01... Snip Ian, You should have run the Vista Upgrade Advisor *BEFORE* you attempted to install the Vista OS on the Notebook. Even with a top of the line lap top (I have an IBM) it found many things were not compatible. Hopefully you can un-install and get back to where you were before all the Vista woes. Elector Yeah did that and it said Home Basic would work! Luckily, I took an image of the disk *before* I tried the upgrade (using Acronis True Image 9) Still want to put Vista on it though. Ian |
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E1245 and Vista drivers
To put it another way, Vista Home Basic is not Windows Home improvement.
.... Ben Myers On Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:38:34 -0400, Ben Myers wrote: Save yourself even more grief and aggravation. Stick with XP for a while, until Vista SP1, more compatible applications and more drivers are available. Vista Home Basic offers very little, if any, improvement over XP SP2... Ben Myers On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 19:26:33 +0100, "Ian James" wrote: "Elector" wrote in message news:gfrSh.7517$hb3.358@trndny01... Snip Ian, You should have run the Vista Upgrade Advisor *BEFORE* you attempted to install the Vista OS on the Notebook. Even with a top of the line lap top (I have an IBM) it found many things were not compatible. Hopefully you can un-install and get back to where you were before all the Vista woes. Elector Yeah did that and it said Home Basic would work! Luckily, I took an image of the disk *before* I tried the upgrade (using Acronis True Image 9) Still want to put Vista on it though. Ian |
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On Apr 9, 3:51 pm, Ben Myers
wrote: To put it another way, Vista Home Basic is not Windows Home improvement. ... Ben Myers On Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:38:34 -0400, Ben Myers wrote: Save yourself even more grief and aggravation. Stick with XP for a while, until Vista SP1, more compatible applications and more drivers are available. Vista Home Basic offers very little, if any, improvement over XP SP2... Ben Myers On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 19:26:33 +0100, "Ian James" wrote: "Elector" wrote in message news:gfrSh.7517$hb3.358@trndny01... Snip Ian, You should have run the Vista Upgrade Advisor *BEFORE* you attempted to install the Vista OS on the Notebook. Even with a top of the line lap top (I have an IBM) it found many things were not compatible. Hopefully you can un-install and get back to where you were before all the Vista woes. Elector Yeah did that and it said Home Basic would work! Luckily, I took an image of the disk *before* I tried the upgrade (using Acronis True Image 9) Still want to put Vista on it though. Ian- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Windows Vista Home Premium is one of the many Os's that I use and the most recent addition as it was free . Norton Ghost has no Vista compatible version yet. Nero 7.8 Vista compatible fails. No full backup is included just file backup.(I of course use raid) Colors are pretty.( I like crayola better) Requires a loan for memory. ReadyBoost is nice. No recovery of Old Os if upgrading.(I of course use multiple boot) Search is outstanding Hack activation is simple just go to BestBuy or similar and copy number off of display unit.(not recommended) General thought-Either go with Bill or fall down the hill |
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