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| 573022 | 2007-07-26 10:09:00 | My daughter recently purchased a Compaq Presario C502TU with Vista Home installed on it. I have added another 1 Gb of ram to it's installed ram of 500Mb, but it runs very slow. It has a Celeron M 1.73GHz processor in it. I would like to install XP on it as this shouldn't be so resource hungry, but was wondering what the pitfalls of doing this might be. It doesnt come with a driver disc, only recovery software on the HD which can be backed up on to CD's. Would I need to format the HD and then install a new unused OEM XP OS which I have, from scratch? Am I likely to have any driver problems? |
muzza (7316) | ||
| 573023 | 2007-07-26 10:13:00 | Just go to their website to check whether there are drivers for XP. | bk T (215) | ||
| 573024 | 2007-07-26 10:16:00 | Looks like the drivers are here (h10025.www1.hp.com) The recovery disk may only contain drivers for Vista NOT XP. And if there are NO drivers on the site or the CD, then nothing will work in XP - ie: Sound / LAN, whatever is on it. I would do a clean install / format. The drivers should be fine, as there are drivers on the site. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 573025 | 2007-07-26 10:39:00 | hi muzza u mite want to try tweaking it a bit and uninstalling the bloatware they ship with those machines www.tweakvista.com | ferrite (4221) | ||
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