Windows Vista - 2 day old laptop fzzzzzt.
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S-Crow
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 Windows Vista - 2 day old laptop fzzzzzt. Can anyone give me some insight. Just purchased one of the latest HP laptops at Costco. Tried to boot the laptop this morning and it gave an error that it could not load Vista and could not automatically repair itself. I've tried to boot for over an hour and it just won't go. Outside of taking it back, any suggestions or is this not unusual for Vista?
Lovely. I just bought the thing 2 days ago.
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Re: Windows Vista - 2 day old laptop fzzzzzt. If it's only 2 days old, why wouldn't you want to just take it back? The process is quite painless at Costco.
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S-Crow
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Re: Windows Vista - 2 day old laptop fzzzzzt. I will. I've never run Vista so I wasn't sure if this is something to look forward to. I don't think it is a hardware issue, but just guessing.
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Re: Windows Vista - 2 day old laptop fzzzzzt. That's not a typical Vista issue. I don't like the OS very much, but in my experience it does boot.
If you want a Windows laptop, you might consider returning this one and waiting a few months until Windows 7 is released anyways. You'll end up needing that upgrade (since Vista will rapidly vanish) and you can save yourself about $100 if you wait.
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Markor
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Re: Windows Vista - 2 day old laptop fzzzzzt. After using Vista for many months, I'd like to change to XP. If I buy Win XP full product, I can flatten my Vista box (using Win XP install) and end up with XP only right? I have a 4GB machine; I understand XP will see only 3GB, right?
I don't want Win 7 because some stuff I use undoubtedly won't support it for a long time. I figure XP will be supported for a few years yet since it's on netbooks selling now.
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deejayoh
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Re: Windows Vista - 2 day old laptop fzzzzzt. Markor wrote: After using Vista for many months, I'd like to change to XP. If I buy Win XP full product, I can flatten my Vista box (using Win XP install) and end up with XP only right? I have a 4GB machine; I understand XP will see only 3GB, right?
I don't want Win 7 because some stuff I use undoubtedly won't support it for a long time. I figure XP will be supported for a few years yet since it's on netbooks selling now. netbooks are going to flip to win7 in about 10 days. Win7 rocks on a netbook. xp will not be supported long term
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deejayoh
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Re: Windows Vista - 2 day old laptop fzzzzzt. S-Crow wrote: Can anyone give me some insight. Just purchased one of the latest HP laptops at Costco. Tried to boot the laptop this morning and it gave an error that it could not load Vista and could not automatically repair itself. I've tried to boot for over an hour and it just won't go. Outside of taking it back, any suggestions or is this not unusual for Vista?
Lovely. I just bought the thing 2 days ago. Should be a rescue disk that came with the machine, or a segment on the machine that you can repair from. Usually involved hitting f12 during boot sequence but in general I'd agree with Tim. Take it back, and wait 2 weeks for a Win7 machine. It is sooooooo much better than vista. I have been running it for 3-4 months and it has been super solid even in pre-release forms.
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Markor
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Re: Windows Vista - 2 day old laptop fzzzzzt. deejayoh wrote: netbooks are going to flip to win7 in about 10 days. Win7 rocks on a netbook. xp will not be supported long term If history is a guide it'll be years before some stuff is supported on Win7, otherwise I'd be more interested (a friend really likes win7--he's a tech freak however). For example, a printer I just bought came with XP and Vista drivers only. I could probably hunt down and download a Win7 driver, but multiply that by a lot of stuff. Some popular stuff doesn't support Vista yet. Also if history is a guide some of my stuff will no longer work with Win7. I'm not concerned about XP support from MS for a few years, by which time netbooks with Win7 could be < $200.
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deejayoh
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Re: Windows Vista - 2 day old laptop fzzzzzt. Markor wrote: deejayoh wrote: netbooks are going to flip to win7 in about 10 days. Win7 rocks on a netbook. xp will not be supported long term If history is a guide it'll be years before some stuff is supported on Win7, otherwise I'd be more interested (a friend really likes win7--he's a tech freak however). For example, a printer I just bought came with XP and Vista drivers only. I could probably hunt down and download a Win7 driver, but multiply that by a lot of stuff. Some popular stuff doesn't support Vista yet. Also if history is a guide some of my stuff will no longer work with Win7. I'm not concerned about XP support from MS for a few years, by which time netbooks with Win7 could be < $200. History is not a very good guide on this one. I've installed win7 beta on my 5 year old home laptop, on my 2 year old work laptop, and on my brand new touchscreen HP desktop. In all cases it has pulled up just about every drive out there. Feels like driver coverage is already better than Vista ever was. I'm not usually one to drink the company koolaid, but I think they really got this release right. Across 3 machines I think I've had two devices that won't work and neither has been an issue in terms of usability. Interestingly they were both on my 2 year old Lenovo X300. One of them they just released the driver for today (10 days before RTM) so now I'm down to a single missing driver.
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Markor
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Re: Windows Vista - 2 day old laptop fzzzzzt. Good report, thanks. Maybe I'll be an earlier adopter on Win7 then.
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Re: Windows Vista - 2 day old laptop fzzzzzt.
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Markor
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Re: Windows Vista - 2 day old laptop fzzzzzt. The program compatibility wizards looks nice. I liked XP from the get-go, despite some warts until SP2. I think that was a general consensus. Maybe it will be the same with Win7.
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