Posts by AmigaDude

One possibility for the slowdown is that Write caching is disabled by default for USB devices. Try going into Device Manager -> Disk Drives -> your Disk and change the Policies to enable write cacheing (Optimize for Performance)...

Quote: Originally Posted by stimey Yep, i think i got a sata hd in this one. So time to put in some sata support on the QP partion somehow. Another task to kill some spare time I wonder if i can just bung the drivers...

Duh Sounds very, very strange to me also. Actually it sounds like a auto mechanic who wants to sell you something you don't really need. However, to be perfectly fair, it is possible (not highly probable though) that a short in a...

Sorry to here about the troubles stimey. (yes, I've seen/used the X: drive myself ) To recover you need to replace the MBR, which you can do by booting off a WinXP setup disk and going into the recovery console and typing fixmbr ....

First off this is borderline illegal so you will probably not get an answer. 2nd - I would say NO, since any machine readable serial numbers would be burned into a ROM chip. Desoldering and resoldering those would probably kill BOTH...

ramp4ge - Since this is your first QP install, I suggest you go with QPv1 which is what HP officially supports. Eriko posted a link to the CD in post #110 ( http://www.notebookforums.com/post2033536.html ), which is in NERO format so...

Never saw that before! Maybe you need to logon with Administrator authority first?

what if you Open the wireless assistant and then turn off bluetooth from there? Also on this screen you can change the Properties in wireless assistant so the right-click works directly. I have no idea what fn-f2 does ...

huchris27 - Look at post #513 for a possible way to install codecs, if you are bold and daring. stimey - 2 things on QP2.x: 1 - I used a disassembler ( isd I think ) for the install script to get the code used during the install...

Here is the QP2.0 Windows code @ 39Mbytes - http://http://depositfiles.com/files/295897/