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    EL80 Slow After Rollback to Windows XP

    Discussion in 'Other Manufacturers' started by Wendel, Sep 4, 2007.

  1. Wendel

    Wendel Newbie

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    I had Vista Home Premium installed on my EL80, but some of my programs still won't work with it, so I decided I would roll back to Windows XP.

    I was able to install all the drivers with the exception of the Video Drivers, when I download the latest geforce Go 7 series drivers from Nvidia, it tells me I don't have the product and it can't install.

    My machine is slow in the following ways, when I scroll down on a page there is a pause, and it seems to be generally slugish.

    I tried to roll back the bios to an earlier version, but the bios flash software(run from windows) tells me I already have the newest or a newer version of bios.

    I'm going to try and make a bootable CD later today, but my question is, is this slowness related to the video drivers, and do I really need to roll back the bios to use Windows XP?

    Thanks in advance, great website!
     
    Wendel, Sep 4, 2007
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  2. Ice-Tea

    Ice-Tea MXM Guru NBR Reviewer

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    You need to install modified video drivers. Download them from your vendors site or any of the other EL80 vendors or head to laptopvideo2go.com
     
    Ice-Tea, Sep 4, 2007
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