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8510p out the box?

Discussion in 'HP' started by meat curtain master, Sep 19, 2007.

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I ordered 8510p with xp, ati X2600 video card today. I know that everyones hunting for the Dead Mans Chest that has the ati drivers in it. I would appreciate it if you guy's could help me figure out what i gotta do to get ol'betsy up and running hopefully eliminating a lot of trial and error. I've searched through the threads and seen some steps here and some there. I'm a noob, but i'm going to have someone with a lot more tech knowledge help me. Thanks

meat curtain master, Sep 19, 2007

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Well, as far as I know, finding the ATI display drivers isn't tough, it's installing them. For Vista, I haven't heard of any problems trying to install the ones from ATI's or HP's website. It's only if you have XP Pro where you'll have a problem. Currently, there is no known solution to installing the updated drivers from ATI. So, you're stuck with the old display driver HP gives you. Anyway, what exactly do you want to do with your new laptop? Do you want to do a clean install, clean the out the bloatware (it's not much), etc.? You really don't have to do anything if you don't want to. The laptop works well right out of the box. However, I did do a clean install because I put in a new HD, the 7k200.

jin07, Sep 19, 2007

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