F'ing VISTA BS!!!
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- mg33
I am so pissed right now. As some of you know I put Vista on my girlfriend's computer not long ago. It's been nothing but crap, it's slow as hell, sound drivers are screwed up, it just sucks and needs to go in the garbage.
So I bought XP this week to put that on it, and turns out it's some kind of royal impossibility to install XP once Vista is installed.
Does anyone have some tips on how to accomplish this?
I have the disc in and can't even click "Install Windows XP." It's not an upgrade, it's a full version, brand new.
Computer has SATA hard drive, also practically brand new.
This headache is lasting me nearly a month now.
- Jaline0
back everything up, completely wipe the computer, install.
- mg330
All is backed up, there wasn't much installed, just some songs and only virus scan and itunes. All backed up to my thumbdrive.
How do I wipe the hard drive clean?
- joyride0
get into the bios, select the boot sequence to be cd/dvd first, save, put cd in, should ask, want to boot from cd press any key...press any key. follow directions, i'd format the drive to really get rid of all vista stuff, then just follow directions.
do you know what drivers you need for the network, sound etc?
- Nairn0
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Yup, what those guys said.Once you know how to boot from CD-Rom on a formatted computer (either as Joyride says, or with some bloody bootdisk) you'll have to go to ms-dos and do the old 'format c:\ ' thing, then re-install.
I don't envy you - I've done this so many times, it hurts. Say goodbye to 6 hours of your day.
Last time I installed XP, I did the shortcut thing and boot from CD, then the XP install gave me the option of formatting.
- mg330
I've got all the XP drivers already for typical things like audio, monitor, ethernet, should I find one in particular for an SATA drive?
Reading this thread:
- mg330
Thanks Nairn, and you answered my question: I should not be starting this hellacious project at 10:45 pm on a worknight.
There goes another Saturday!
Thanks for your help guys, I really appreciate it.
- OSFA0
How do I wipe the hard drive clean?
mg33
(Sep 19 07, 19:44)Throw it out the window.
- joyride0
naw, not really, the main thing is booting to the xp disk, formatting the drive, then installing xp.
Next step is the drivers:
Chipsets
Ethernet
WIN updates
then the rest of the drivers to get it up and running.it should take a few hours
- Jaline0
I only mentioned to wipe the HD clean so that you can start fresh. I hate how Windows (especially) has little traces of useless files even after you get rid of something and attempt to install something else.
Hope it doesn't cause you too much pain!
- mg330
joyride,
if it's not too much trouble, can you have a look at the page for this motherboard and let me know if I need anything specific in either Bios or Utilities?
Like I said, I have the VGA, ethernet and audio saved on a thumb drive already.
(She had XP before, comp totally crashed, she had a Vista upgrade she got for free, so I bought a new SATA drive, installed Win2K, and that's when I realized I needed all the drivers once 2K was installed. So, kind of been through this once.)
Much thanks for your help.
- joyride0
what page?
Is it a Dell or HP, or Custom Build?
- mg330
- BonSeff0
// yeah, i totally remember that you installed that os on yer old ladies machine
hahaha, haha
sorry that was just funny
texas still loves you though
you bundled up ninja
- joyride0
Chipset would be the first link under utilities:
WinXP: 5.00.1012 looks to be the latestThat's the stuff that would normally come on the MB install disk. But the first is the most important, I'm not sure what ASUS PC Probe V2.23.06 Install Program for Windows 2000/XP/2003, the USB one might get fixed during the MS updates.
But after the Main install is complete, run the chipset, then get the ethernet working, win updates next. I normally do the video card/audio last.
- mg330
Man BonSeff, it has been a bitch of a process. Vista just flat out sucks.
I've never been more motivated to seek out blogs or sites where I have the opportunity to bash something.
This is a great computer, 1 GB memory, brand new 320 GB drive and Celeron 2.6 (I agree that could be better) and it runs like a slow old computer.
Vista is pretty and all but confusing as all fuck. Great for people new to computers I'm sure, but not for people used to 2K or XP.
- mg330
Success!
Thanks for your tips guys. I have XP installed, and the Vista package and CD are going to be ceremoniously burned with a blowtorch, as soon as I have access to one!
- sureshot0
hasta la vista.
- Llyod0
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