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    Uninstalling VISTA and installing XP on Compaq Presario V6317

    Discussion in 'HP' started by plucesiar, May 18, 2007.

  1. plucesiar

    plucesiar Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi, I just bought a laptop yesterday from http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?sku_id=0665000FS10086133&logon=&langid=EN. However, on the Compaq site I don't see any download for SATA driver available. Does Compaq V6317's (AMD processors) have the same SATA issues as the HP Intels?

    Also, I am currently formatting my C: right now into NTFS in the XP installation menu. However, I don't see anywhere that mentions anything about Quickplay (there's another partition that serves as the Recovery thing for HP/Compaq, but I recall from other threads that that has nothing to do with Quickplay). What am I supposed to do? And after I finish installing XP, do I have to install all those drivers? How much from MDesigner's guide is different for Compaqs?

    Thanks so much!!
     
    plucesiar, May 18, 2007
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    punkrawkgeek Newbie

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    i just did the same thing... installed XP on this computer. and i cant seem to get my wireless to work...
    installed the drivers from the HP site... but cannot get it to work.
    any ideas???
     
    punkrawkgeek, May 23, 2008
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