Got my 6831FX today! Questions inside....

Alright, so I was reading the forums and noticed where many people say to do clean OS installs... which I just finished doing. Now I am reinstalling all the drivers. Anyway.... now I have two instances of Vista installed on my HDD. Should I just delete the old one? Also, what is the best way to go about doing that?

Thanks

 

You didn't delete the partition when you installed the new vista.

 

I know, I'm trying to get rid of the old install... as far as I know I have two installs of vista on my harddrive which is just taking up space.

 

I don't know how you could have two Vista installs on the same drive, but if I understand you correctly, and if you really do have two, then you should reformat and do a clean install.

 

If you have not done so I would also suggest making your recovery disks and when you do your install you can leave the small recovery partition intact or reinstall windows and wipe the whole drive clean and make one partition this is what I did because I do not plan on returning it or reselling it.But it is better to have all the recovery disks for drivers as I had to Google to get a couple of mine for my clean install but no big deal I got everything working fine.

 

Alright here is what I did... my first post was a bit vague

1). Made a backup DVD with drivers
2). Put in the OS dvd that came with the notebook
3). Installed Vista

Now I have two Vistas... with the first one being in its own partition.... can I delete that partition alone or will I have to start over and reformat the whole laptop because I'm an idiot ? Hehe...

Also... My CPU is not the 5450 for some reason I got a 5550 @ 1.83 Ghz

Did they recently start putting them in here? Or did I get lucky?

 

The best place to have your OS is the first partition, which I suspect your old Vista install is occupying. IF this is the case, then I suggest you reformat and install Vista on the first partition.

 

I believe that I read on one of the posts here or another forum that when you do a clean install of Vista it reports the wrong CPU in system properties I think there is an update from Gateway to fix this.

 

I think they recently put them in there as the new display model we have at work(BB) has it on its default install. CPU-Z recognizes it as a 5550 too.

 

Wow.... Pretty cool.

I'm still going to eventually put in a t9300... but this makes me slightly happier with the processor. (Considering I'm super stoked about the laptop as a whole)

 

so did i!
i checked cpu-z and it said t5600 so did vista and ccleaner!
i just got this notebook today from best buy!

(anyways a t5500 is a 1.66 according to newegg)
but mine says t5600 which is 1.83 so i think they made a mistake or something (not complaining :])

 

When you say you have two vistas installed are you talking about the "windows old" folder? If so and you have made the recovery disks, just delete windows old.

 

I got it all figured out.... I just did a clean install and deleted the old partition. Now it is all on one. I still have my backup disk too.

 

T5550, not T5500.

http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sspec=sla4e

 

ok my bad but thats cool we both got better processor

 

Ya, I'm pretty happy... I talked to gateway tech support to see if this was a common issue lately, the guy basically told me I got lucky and they might have temporarily run low on 5450s so they used 5550s

Not bad...

 

sweet thats good!
yeah am happy that i did not get the 1.67 which is pretty bad

seriously this laptop is amazing it ran crysis as fast as my desktop which has an 8800 in it!

 

I didn't get T5550 in mine...I wonder if I could get Gateway to switch my T5450 out for one since it's "unfair" that I paid the same amount of money but got a T5450.

 

lol, this is why we should never ever buy a laptop or computer Always faster and cheaper tomorrow...