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| Thread ID: 93980 | 2008-10-09 01:37:00 | ASUS - How utterly stupid | pctek (84) | PC World Chat |
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| 710946 | 2008-10-09 01:37:00 | Ordered an ASUS X56A laptop for a guy who absolutely wanted the XP downgrade option it has. Took some time deciding on this one for various reasons. Fine, except while it came with the O/S downgrade it didn't have the XP driver CD. After much phoning both Asus (Techmaster) Support and various techs and product managers, I have been informed that because it is so new they haven't actually got drivers for it yet and I have to wait a month (ish) for the CD to be done and sent out. This is also the time frame for the drivers to appear on ASUS website, at the moment the model doesn't appear there at all. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 710947 | 2008-10-09 01:55:00 | ... Good grief. Unfortunately it's not just Asus. HP's "contact us" page asks you to select your computer first with no option for their Mini-Note. |
Nermal (7077) | ||
| 710948 | 2008-10-09 01:56:00 | Shot guys. :groan: | wratterus (105) | ||
| 710949 | 2008-10-09 02:13:00 | What's this?? pctek dissing her beloved Asus :eek: :eek: Never had this problem with an Acer :punk :D :p (Sorry had to say something) |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 710950 | 2008-10-09 02:30:00 | Sounds about right - didn't ya know they all want a person to buy Vista - Prob just another way to annoy people so they will say " what the hell" I'll take Vista instead - Could be the "Plan from MS" - You neverrrrrr know:) Mind you only just found This out (www.pcauthority.com.au) today. | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 710951 | 2008-10-09 03:36:00 | Sounds about right - didn't ya know they all want a person to buy Vista - Prob just another way to annoy people so they will say " what the hell" I'll take Vista instead - Could be the "Plan from MS" - You neverrrrrr know:) Mind you only just found This out (www.pcauthority.com.au) today. Yea I was going to mention that. I read that somewhere too the other day. Hopefully most people will be able to skip Vista altogether as Windows 7 is not too far away. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 710952 | 2008-10-09 04:49:00 | Vista is horrible... I just slipstreamed SP1 with Vlite and I was testing it out... and at the same time I had 99% completed downloading a 2.2GB file (which took about 4 hrs) and suddenly BAM! it's crashed with "file access error" Turns out this is specific to running DownThemAll on Vista.... :badpc: :badpc: :badpc: Expressing how I feel right now would probably get me banned from PF1 for life... |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 710953 | 2008-10-09 04:49:00 | when I inserted an XP cd into my HP laptop and tried to boot off her she couldn't find any installed harddrives...... | Metla (12) | ||
| 710954 | 2008-10-09 10:01:00 | when I inserted an XP cd into my HP laptop and tried to boot off her she couldn't find any installed harddrives...... You probably needed to load the hard drive controller drivers |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 710955 | 2008-10-09 10:17:00 | Probably. Or just kick it under the desk, resting my feets on it right now. Though I'd imagine HP made no such drivers. |
Metla (12) | ||
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