| 24 Bearhntr, on Friday January 9, 2009 05:28:25 PMI have been reading these threads for over a month now and have decided to put in my 2¢ worth here.
The things that I have noticed are as follows:
1) Everyone HATES VISTA. I have only one POSITIVE thing to say about it.... "It Is PRETTY". It pesters the hell out of you. Everytime that you want to do something, you are prompted....ARE YOU SURE??? Yes, I realize that you can change this, but why should I have to. It should be defaulted to the other way....let me F***ing turn it on if I want to be hounded by the mother-in-law from hell with the spiked rolling pin. GEEZ!!!!
2) I spent more than three hours on the phone with HP when I bought my new DV6807US entertainment laptop in October 2008. They were telling me "sounded like a robot" - YOUR MACHINE DOES NOT SUPPORT XP. I got to the point where as soon as the tech said it, I asked for their supervisor. I was finally able to reach a tech that send me an e-mail with links to all of the files that I needed to get XP installed. Using an SP2 slipstreamed CD you do not need to use the SATA drivers floppy (Press F6 function during installation). Once I got XP installed, I started systematically installing the drivers to get the UNKNONW DEVICES out of the device manager. The one which was the hardest was the 1394 device. I found that I had to drop my BIOS to the F.28 level (or below) to get rid of that bastard.
3) I then used BCD Pro to re-do the VISTA boot manager so that I could use both OSes for a while, until I decided to get rid of it all together and using only XP Pro (now at SP3). I then noticed that the QUICKPLAY features of the bar across the top no longer worked, and I began my journey into the Internet again to get the software to get that working. What a task that was.
4) If HP knows that there are so many of us out there who do not want VISTA, WILL NOT USE VISTA, and want to go to XP....why do they not just create a RECOVERY CD which can be purchased (or sent for free to users still in warranty - or within the first 90 days of purchase) which will remove VISTA, and put a fully working version of XP on the machine? Would that not seem to be the logical choice???
I wanted to give UBUNTU a whirl on my laptop, and I am not finding it just as difficult to get anything out of HP for doing this installation.
I am to the point where I am going to start a CLASS-ACTION SUIT against HP. I mean I paid almost $1000 for this laptop, and G** DAMMIT, I want to run what ever F***ING Operating System on it that I want. If I am willing to buy a license to run another OS on """ MY """ F***ING HARDWARE, what gives HP the AUDACITY to tell me that you can ONLY RUN VISTA!?!?!?!
If anyone is willing to, or has also considered filing a clas-action suit against HP over this whole madness, feel free to respond. | 25 adfdsffg, on Friday January 9, 2009 06:03:52 PMHey dude u can put mac on ur pc i watched some vids taht it has to have intel processer or summin to work but others say taht it doesnt matter jst google it or youtube it and ull get it going i am not reponsible for any sh** u do to ur laptop or watever the hell it is ur using | 26 bearhntr, on Sunday January 11, 2009 03:58:55 PMAdfd,
I have tried to put three other OS's on this machine. I do have it dual booting with VISTA (the original OS) and XP. I have tried to put UBUNTU on the laptop, but half of the items do not work, you cannot get the WIRELESS to work, and the maximum resolution you can get is 1024x768. UBUNTU recognizes the video card as NIVIDIA, but you cannot get the drivers to ACTIVATE.
I have also tried to put other flavors of LINUX on the machine - no luck there either.
I did try 4 different versions of the MAC software, the latest being iATKOS_4a which according to all the MAC forums should work on my machine. While it does begin the installation - it does not see the HDD in the notebook at all. It also will not see the 4GB SD card installed in the machine, nor does it see a 2GB Jumpdrive attached via the USB ports.
I am on the verge of filing a CLASS-ACTION suit againt HP for their role in this fiasco. They either need to provide me with a BIOS which will provide me FULL ACCESS to the settings on my computer, or someplace where I can get a PHOENIX BIOS which will work on my machine and allow me TOTAL CONTROL over the notebook. | 30 computer guy, on Tuesday January 13, 2009 09:58:48 PMHey man I wish i could keep on replying to this fourm but it is getting hard as i am busy and school started, i am 12, so i would not take my advice if i was me, lol, ummm i wanted to say that microsoft is a bit**, and so is hp and all, but i thought about it what the hell is the diff between xp and vista? vista has alot of errors, and ontop of that takes 1gb to run of mem, while xp takes 512 (least for best performence) but then again mac is the same! as xp and vista, they all let u use programs and they all let u acess email and internet, what do u use ur pc for? most people i know have hp touch screens macs all that crap, but all they have is music videos and internet! i mean what are u going to do? buy mac get ripped off, for something that vista can do with alot of errors, or use xp and be as happy as a bee, lol random, bee, peace gtg
hey uhh can u give me like 4% of the money u get? if u acullty are smart enough to win the case? i deserve some jst for inspiring u, i was thinking of writing a book, the story of how a humble outlier got back a a pain staking stupid ass comany and morons who dont know they they have reached a limit in which the way we have been building pc i limited to the current limitations, its kinda funny hundred years ago they made a radio laptops cell phones cars but now i never see any one building anythng as widley used and known things as computers and stuff |
| 61 skidroe34, on Monday February 2, 2009 04:21:43 PMDude, I am on for a class action suit too. If you find out how we can do that let me know please. I am very unhappy also after spending $2,000 and they wouldnt even let me return it, and I havent had it a month yet! skidroe73@gmail dot com |
| 62 Riot, on Tuesday February 3, 2009 11:09:14 AMIm whit you all the way ..- Damn i hate HP for telling me what to do whit my own personal laptop..it CAN'T be right
that HP is telling me what to do whit my personal stuff "HP Pavilion dv7-1095eo Entertainment Notebook PC"
im sick and tired to be dictatet for something especially when i have paid alot of money for this laptop i
why in hell can i not desite what to do whit it?
i want max perf out of my laptop and im not satisfaction whit vista .. i want power .. not glamour
think i have spend about 4-5 hours on this.. reading throug alot of forums in this topic
I am on for a class action suit (Btw sorry for my spelling in english... not so offen i use it to write)
Thx for your time on reading this .. don't know if it makes any sence to you?)
fell free to contakt me A-wissing@hotmail.com | 63 Never ever bye/sell HP products.. its cursed, on Thursday February 5, 2009 07:53:47 PMHi ! problem whit installing XP on HP DV7 series?
I might got some clues for you ppl out there have spend alot of time on this bug
Found this site forum whit same issues..but in this forum this bug whit the bios sata "lock" and driver issues was solved so im going to try it out.. ill let you know if it works out liked i hope
>> http://www.laptops-drivers.com/... <<
(Btw sorry for my spelling... not so offen i write in ENG) !Good Luck to all of you! | 66 Never ever bye/sell HP products.. its cursed,, on Sunday February 8, 2009 10:08:12 AMWell Have installed XP on HP dv7-1095oe and it was a succes .. but now there is some problem getting the right drivers .. .. have used EVEREST.Ultimate.Edition.4.50.Build.1363 to explored the hardware.. so now im familiar whit what to do .. but still bit of a problem to gain the current drivers.. specialy for the sound card
the link added by HPtotaltcare above in this forum to the audio driver .. works fine :) but wrong driver.. :(
so hang in there we are about to succed.. !
feel free to contakt me a-wissing@hotmail.com | 77 hp pavillion 6670ej, on Friday March 6, 2009 06:59:04 PMI have the same problem. I am able to load windows xp but when installing with the partition that I created it appears nothing or hdd is not detected. My laptop is hp pavillion 6670ej |
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| 50 Rob, on Wednesday January 28, 2009 09:27:43 PMBearhntr,
I've read all of the threads also and I agree with you 100%. I'm an experienced IT tech, and in my oppinion, "Vista is garbage". I'm not sure who's worse, MS or HP. The class action suit against HP sounds good to me. If you do file suit, Count me in. HP should be held accountable.
thanx,
rob | 56 Neorion, on Thursday January 29, 2009 03:10:45 PMSo has anyone actually managed to do this then? | 57 bearhntr, on Thursday January 29, 2009 04:40:38 PMNeorion,
Has anyone managed to do what exactly?
Please elaborate.
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| 60 skidroe34, on Monday February 2, 2009 03:41:32 PMYES I would LOVE to get a C.A. suit against them, I am just as pis--ed of as you are and I am sure there are many others. I paid almost $2,000 for this HP HDX 16 laptop and hate it. Ive tried to load XP on and it wont let me. I cant talk to anyone who speaks english or that will help me. I didnt have it 30 days yet and tried to return it and they will not let me! I said I want my money back! They said "sorry, we cant do that!" I could not believe this, its like a bad nightmare! UNBELIEVABLE!!! VISTA 64BIT REALLY SUCKS AND SO DOES HP!!! Whoever reads this, DONT EVER BUY FROM HP! EVER!!! | 83 great britain, on Monday March 16, 2009 09:03:11 AMI'v tried to install xp64bit on some hp dv7 laptop.. and the xp installation it was a succes until
i tried to put some sound driver on it, and i've tried some different sound drivers but non of them work'd
so i gave up and wanted to put vista back on the laptop again .. whit the recovery set i've got whit it
and that din't work either the recovery setup got some error again and again.. then i contacted hp support eng
and told them that i got a crash when updating from microsoft
(i think if i told them the truth part about xp the garanti would fail) so i lied about the service pack
now the laptop is back in my hands and the error report from hp says the the mainboard was defekt ?
so now you a warned about installing xp on your hp laptops it may f***up the laptop totaly
take care! lflh | 84 hello world, on Tuesday March 17, 2009 07:43:46 PMThat's nonsence. You can't damage laptop with XP instalation. Your mainboard was defective, period. It wasn't XP's fault. If you have healthy hardware, you can't destroy it with software.
The only way how to destroy mainboard using software is by flashing bios with wrong image, but it still can be reflashed, if you know how... | 98 luki1983, on Monday May 11, 2009 10:24:26 AMHEY Guys
I had exactly same problem with ACER 7730, after hours spend going through different forums i found solution.
Case is siple,
1. Go to bios (F2 button on first screen)
2. Find screen where you have booting sequence (diferent in different laptops or pcs, so you would have to put in some invention yourself to find it :) )
3. probably you will have on line reading something like: xxx HDD Sataxxx
4. Change it to show HDD IDE or ATA.
5. Save setting.
THis worked on Acer hopefully will help you as well.
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| 103 shad0w, on Saturday May 30, 2009 01:56:50 AMHi, i really liket ur post, but can u help me to install xp on my dv7 1103 ? i got the blue screen during installtion.. and i aint got a clue of what to do next. Contact me on yahoo mess on l2000_ro . I really need help. |
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