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    Asus G1 Reformatting Help!

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by hplaya, Nov 1, 2007.

  1. hplaya

    hplaya Newbie

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    Hi I have a Asus G1 with windows vista on it but I have lots of games which dont work wit Vista and I really dont like Vista so I wanted to change to Xp. I have reforamatted i think 100 laptops with no problems before but this time when I insert the Windows Xp Cd and change the boot sequence to CD-Rom first and then the Hard drive...it will run the cd but after a while it will say it cant find the hard drive and cannot install windows xp becasue of this...Is there something I didnt do with the boot sequence or something? Any help would be greatly appreciated...
     
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    cid386 Newbie

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  3. hplaya

    hplaya Newbie

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    how do you upgrade the biox to 205? sorry am bit of a newbie..
     
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    ScifiMike12 Drinking the good stuff

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  5. cid386

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    Yeah I meant update. 205 is the latest bios for the g1s, unzip the bios file onto your c:\ drive and go into bios on startup (f2). Go to easy bios update (something like that) and find the bios file on the c: drive. Take care not to disrupt the updating cause it could break your notebook. After that it will restart, go back into bios and enable compatible mode under ide hdd.

    I would get the xp driver pack (on that first thread I linked you) on a cd before you install so you don't have problems getting your wifi to work.
     
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  6. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    Uhh... it would be so nice if people actually looked at the main sticky (ASUS Info Booth "read before posting") before posting. If you had done that, you would have found my BIOS guide. You can also find it in my sig.

    btw I think updating BIOS & turning on SATA compatibility mode is an easier way to install XP. I think this might be because I have no idea about that slipstreaming business :)
     
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    I can't seem to find the driver pack all the links to it are dead can someone post it up i'm stuck in the same boat as well.
     
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    hplaya Newbie

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    thanks a lot guys will try this and let u all know how it goes...
     
    hplaya, Nov 1, 2007
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