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post #1 of 10
12/25/12 at 3:42pm
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Recently purchased this used Sony Vaio off ebay to replace the netbook for garage duties. The small screen of the netbook would often obscure many of the graphs I use for tuning of fuel injection tables and the 17" screen of the Vaio will be a welcome addition.

The new (to me) laptop is probably overkill for it's intended purpose, but for $200 I could see no wrong. It sports a C2D T7200 @ 2.00 GHz and 3 GB of memory. Came with Vista installed and seemed to work well without a hitch, but I really wanted XP for my uses. I made two recovery disc's of the original before beginning the XP install.

Several attempts of an install of Tiny XP were successful until it came time to boot from the hdd...it would then go to black screen. I had a legit copy of Vista 64 bit on hand and tried it with the same results. Even the recovery disks refused to cooperate. Finally I tried Tiny 7 which installed normally and booted right up and is currently running. Any idea's on what the problem might be? I still would rather be using XP.









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post #2 of 10
12/26/12 at 8:56am
Remove one ram module and see if XP can boot up after installation, also check and see if you need to disable AHCI support in BIOS

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post #3 of 10
12/26/12 at 4:30pm
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Messed with this thing all day and finally ended up loading Win 7x64...seems as long as the OS has a number 7 in it we are good to go lol. I'll probably go back to the Tiny 7 as it is a bit snappier. wink.gif







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post #4 of 10
12/26/12 at 11:32pm
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post #5 of 10
12/27/12 at 3:11am
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I even considered briefly installing Windows 8 until I tried it out on a bench rig. I can't even figure out how to shut down the pc short of pulling the plug haha! azz.gif


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post #6 of 10
12/27/12 at 6:05am
laugh4.gif I know, MS does not want people to shut their comp down ...

But some ideas ...

"The most basic way to shut down Windows 8 is through the Charms bar.

In the Metro interface, hover your mouse over the Zoom icon that appears in the lower right corner of the screen. The Charms bar should then pop up displaying several icons. Moving your mouse up the screen will reveal the names of each icon, including Search, Share, Start, Devices, and Settings. Click the Settings icon and then the Power Icon. You should see three options: Sleep, Restart, and Shut down. Clicking Shut down will close Windows 8 and turn off your PC.

You can more quickly reach the settings screen by pressing the Windows key and the i key. From there, clicking the Power button will give you access to the same three options mentioned above.

Another alternative is to sign out of your account and then shut down. You can either click your account photo or image at the top or press Ctrl/Alt/Del. Click the option to sign out. That will bring you to the opening screen for Windows 8 which you then need to pull up to access your login screen. The Shut down icon will be in the lower right corner. Click it to reveal the options for Sleep, Restart, and Shut down.

One more option is to switch to the Desktop and press Alt/F4. That will bring up a dedicated Shut down screen where you can choose to put the PC to sleep, restart, or shut down completely. You just need to make sure to save all your work and close all your applications first before you shut down using this method."

There is a few more, and none of them is simple headscratch.gif

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post #7 of 10
12/27/12 at 7:15am
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Thanks buddy - I figured it out by accident later. I installed "ClassicShell" and it made it slightly more user friendly...at least it now has a proper screen lol. laughing.gif












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post #8 of 10
12/27/12 at 7:50am
Looks good. How does Windows 8 run on this machine? Better than Windows 7?

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post #9 of 10
12/27/12 at 8:05am
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Originally Posted by qhn View Post

Looks good. How does Windows 8 run on this machine? Better than Windows 7?
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The only positive thing I can say atm is the boot time for this install is blazing...12 seconds from a dead start to desktop. Shutdown in about half that time. Using an old 920DO chip in an equally old evga mb and a 32GB ssd at default settings. I can't see this OS being popular with the masses...way too much to figure out.

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post #10 of 10
12/27/12 at 9:03am
That's what I thought. One would need a touch screen system to really enjoy it, if not then a simple normal Windows interface like 7

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