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    installing XP on E300?

    Discussion in 'LG' started by psyke, Apr 13, 2008.

  1. psyke

    psyke Newbie

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    Hi, I'm interested in installing XP on the E300 and wanted to see if anyone has done this and has any advice on how they went about it.

    It took me a while to get the XP drivers for it from LG's website, in case anyone is interested here's how I went about it (as initally posted here):


    1. go to http://www.lge.com/support/software.jsp
    2. In the 'Select Continent' and 'Select country/region' dropdowns, choose N. America & USA respectively
    3. For 'Product' select Notebook
    4. For 'Series' select E200/E300 (you may have to wait a few seconds after step 3 before the 'Series' dropdown updates itself)
    5. For 'Operating system' choose Windows XP
    6. Click the 'Search' button (and wait...)

    Personally I selected 'All' for the OS and manually selected the XP drivers from the results... I just wanted to see what other drivers were available. I did see some drivers only available for Vista, and some only available for XP.

    Navigating the site was a pain, the search results took a long time to come up, and I found it was better to navigate the search results by clicking the page numbers (you typically get 5 or 6 pages worth of drivers) rather than clicking 'Prev' and 'Next' to move between the driver pages. When you do it, you'll understand what I mean...


    Anyway, I hope this helps and that we get more people posting about XP on the E300!
     
    psyke, Apr 13, 2008
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  2. thomaskc.dk

    thomaskc.dk Notebook Deity

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    Thanks, I was actually just looking for xp drivers for p300 since I just realised, the CD was vista only.
     
    thomaskc.dk, Jun 3, 2008
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  3. dreamz

    dreamz Notebook Geek

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    i installed xp on my e300. most of the drivers installed just fine, but there were a few packages that i didn't use, e.g., bluesoleil bluetooth (windows drivers are fine), osd, battery miser, etc.

    the only issue i had originally was finding the drivers for the wireless lan. to do this, i used a program called 'unknown devices' ( http://halfdone.org/ukd/) and figured out the brand. then i found this driver package and tutorial: http://itreviewer.blogspot.com/2007/05/acer-travelmate-2490-wireless-driver-xp.html. now the laptop works perfectly. :)
     
    dreamz, Jun 3, 2008
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    Hoi-Yant Newbie

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    I have XP up and running very smoothly. It took a little while longer than I'd expected since I wanted to format the hard drive entirely, including that invisible partition that had a bunch of factory installed backups.

    However, I don't know whether or not this is a problem or not, but the integrated webcam only registers as a generic webcam. I don't know whether or not I actually found the drivers for it. Does anyone have any advice?
     
    Hoi-Yant, Dec 22, 2008
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