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    Need help with DV9000 Bios

    Discussion in 'HP' started by walangbebot, Jan 19, 2010.

  1. walangbebot

    walangbebot Notebook Enthusiast

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    Ok i have a dv 9000 that I have replaced the motherboard on and one. Its has been a great laptop but I will be moving up and wanted to trade this unit it for something newer. The old motherboard had windows XP as the default installed os but this one has Vista and I wanted to use the HP restore CDs that I have to restore it to factory default but now it doesn't match up how do I edit the bios so it has XP as the factory installed os. Any help would be greatly appriciated. Thanks Mike
     
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    brianstretch Notebook Virtuoso

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    You can't, or at least not in a way that we can describe here. But you can do a clean install of WinXP using just about any HP or Compaq WinXP install CD that matches the version of Vista your new motherboard is configured for (WinXP MCE for Vista Home Premium I think, maybe WinXP Home). You can construct such a disc from any other OEM WinXP disc using the WinXP OEMBIOS activation method. Or, read the Vista Clean Install sticky at the top of this forum to install Vista, preferably 64-bit Vista.

    Or... buy a Windows 7 upgrade license, which is cheap if you have a university email address. I put Win7 on my parents' dv9000z. Very easy.
     
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