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post #21 of 25
3/19/07 at 9:37pm
Gotcha, Right after i posted that message I found a site that discribed the clean install. I am currently backing up my current configuration, OS, Files and folders before attempting the upgrade. thanks guys for the info and for putting up with my n00bness
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post #22 of 25
3/21/07 at 7:07pm
Thats good news. I have installed Vista on my HP DV5000 and for the most part everything worked well. I ensured that I had the latest firmware from HP for my machine. Only a few drivers were missing mostly for my card reader of which HP have a driver for Vista and a few other drivers of which again I was able to resolve by getting the latest update drivers from HP. In all it was a smooth setup for me and Vista is working really well.

I do know that some people including myself had a issue with the setup and install of Vista crashing a short way into the install. This was due to the SATA being enabled in the BIOS for he hard drive. Disabling this worked, and then simply re-enabling it after Vista was installed fixed the problem, although this issue has also now been resolved with the latest BIOS update.

What I am most interested in is how does it perform on the 64 bit version of the software?
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post #23 of 25
3/21/07 at 9:09pm
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Couple of updates,

Growing tired of the grfx corruption coming out of screen blanking, I allowed vista to install old nv griver from november for the 7600, so far it works great. ltv2g has 2 new releases over the 100.59 I was using, one being whql certified, but as I dont need any of the game specific issues they seem to be targeting Ill stick w/ what I got untill Windows Update pushes out a new version.

As far as Vista 64 vs 32 bit, On my desktop, upgradeing to XP64 bit and a raptor showed noticeable speed increase over XP32. Although I have not put Vista 32 on the laptop, only 64 I did tool around alot w/ 32 bit on my desktop, which had lower specs except hdd speed, and I havnt seen a noticeable spped up using 64 bit. If I did an apples to apples side by side I might see something, but as of right now my experiences hasnt shown anything special.
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post #24 of 25
3/21/07 at 9:35pm
OK i just got done upgrading to vista home premium 32 and other than the video card driver and 5in1 card reader driver everything installed very well and i am running very smoothly.
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post #25 of 25
3/22/07 at 6:52am
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Originally Posted by Gelicious
OK i just got done upgrading to vista home premium 32 and other than the video card driver and 5in1 card reader driver everything installed very well and i am running very smoothly.

Vista update or ltv2g will take care of your grfx driver, contact HP web chat and they have a card reader driver if it hasnt been posted to the web site yet.
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