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    Dual Booting 7805u

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by KawaFord, Mar 18, 2009.

  1. KawaFord

    KawaFord Notebook Consultant

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    Has anyone been able to dual boot xp/vista64 with the FX 7805u?

    I need XP for a old game I play.
     
    KawaFord, Mar 18, 2009
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    directeuphorium Notebook Evangelist

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    i think people were having problem getting the sound to work in XP on these notebooks... there might be a solution or a work around at this point, but i wouldn't know i don't use XP anymore

    if the game you're trying to play isn't too graphics or CPU intensive you might be able to get away with using XP in a virtual machine.

    Virtualbox is a good one, and is free. might be worth a try if you can't figure out how to run XP on the thing....
     
    directeuphorium, Mar 18, 2009
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    AGlobalThreatsK Notebook Evangelist

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    Yes it's been done many times.

    There are some doing XP 32 bit and Vista 64 bit, I originally had installed XP 32 bit and 7 64 bit. I'm just using XP by itself now, working great.

    Sound is as easy as clicking a file. In about 5 seconds, I have sound.
     
    AGlobalThreatsK, Mar 19, 2009
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    I installed XP first, then installed Vista after. Works great without using programs like EasyBCD..
    As for Xp sound is the only one I have to play with everytime I boot up but no big deal. I have many programs and games that only runs in XP..
     
    fatmandoo, Mar 21, 2009
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    EasyBCD makes it easier to edit the bootloader. You don't have to worry about corrupting it like you do when you manually edit the bootloader files (You don't want them to change priority). I used it to change the operating system display names and the response time. If you corrupt one of the bootloaders you will only be able to use the OS that you didn't corrupt, and then you will HAVE to use a program like EasyBCD or VistaBootPro to get your operating system back.
     
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    I successfully installed XP and is working dual boot.

    Now does anyone know where to get all the drivers exactly?
     
    KawaFord, Mar 21, 2009
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    AGlobalThreatsK, Mar 21, 2009
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    If only there was a VM machine that could emulate some kind of primitive 3D acceleration for Windows like there is for make everything would be perfect.

    I know they are now taking to re releasing classic games for the PC (Quake Live) before I was trying to get Quake 3 to run fine under Vista 64 and couldn't. I had hoped to be able to install it on a VM to play it, but it would because of the above mentioned problem.
     
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    Update:

    Got the graphic drivers installed, had to use 177.92.

    Next thing is sound!
     
    KawaFord, Mar 21, 2009
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    AGlobalThreatsK, Mar 22, 2009
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