Posts by scottyrabbit

simple enough to do. big concerns are the sata hdd. a lot of times when you pop in your xp setup disc the sata drives arnt recognized (atleast that is my xp) so you can use nlite to integrate it. other than that just pop your disc in...

well are there any distros set aside for laptops??? ive tried debian, ubuntu, and backtrack and nothing would work. i could only get mandriva to work. but even then it was a bit iffy and was nothing like the other distros. any...

ok. well i downgraded my dv6500t. i didnt have any problems, as soon as i used nlite to get the drivers built into my xp disk. and yes it is VERY doable to boot win xp off a usb drive. however you cant get it normally. i don't know if i...

when buying form hp they have a special check box to have your lapop shipped with the os restore disk. i have a vista restore disk. One major thing is that the dv6500t special edition..... i didnt really see much difference between the...

hey glad to here that everything worked well. the best part bout it is that now others will benifit when they look up the error code. always good to help the laptop community :P

i put the burn rate to as low as it could go. it comes up with an error saying that it cant read the disk. my dvd drive has lightscribe and such. perhaps this is messing with it???

sorry to bring up an old post. bu ti came across this when i was looking into getting my laptop. and really wished that someone would have responded. so yea. they do now have the nvidia 8400 int the hp laptops. i own the dv6500t. love it

Ok when i bought my laptop it came with Vista preinstalled. So i switched to xp. Dont regret it yet. and my friends who do use vista. yea they love it. but wow. they freeze up all the time. i think its more of an opinion thing

so. i gave google a go. didnt find much. i did find antother post thats like in the same length but in a different language. im assuming thats you posting on another forum. lol. but i did find a yahoo answers chat saying that your hdd is...

Ok so i just got this laptop. I love it. My only problem is that i cant get linux, any distro, to work on it. lol. im not sure if its cuz im a bit new or what. Any suggestions for what distro i should use. I already tried backtrack in...