Eurocom 2700C: Upgrading Win98 -> XP home (drivers)

I have a near mint Eurocom 2700C laptop.

I wish to upgrade the OS from Win98SE to XP Home.

Eurocom Tech Support says they have seen people
use XP on this model, but they have no idea where
I can get the XP drivers, except to ask @ this Forum.


help?

 

Welcome to the NBR forums.

I think the system is old enough that a normal XP disc should have drivers for most of the hardware when you install it.

Then you look in the Device Manager to see if there are any unknown devices left, which you can find drivers for usually by letting Windows Update find it for you within XP.

 

Thanks 4 the help !

Question:
I have located an upgrade XP Home (v. 2002), a SP2, & a SP3.

MS Tech support told me I needed SP1 0r SP2 installed B4 SP3.

Do I require SP1 1st with my upgrade XP Home (v. 2002) ?

If so where can I locate one ?
MS doesn't seem to have it on line any more, even the SP2 was
not an ISO, but an .exe file.

 

you can use any XP service pack version.... it should not matter.

SP2 as an EXE? .... that might just be the Service Pack updater... not the CD itself.... unless if it is a self-extractor with an ISO in it.

 

Yes its a Service Pack Updater, just run it after you have XP installed and it will update itself to SP2.

If you have an ISO with a XP SP3 already on it then you don't need any older SPs as they are already on it.

 

MS says, on its' webpages, both ways:
that you need / don't need SP1 or SP2.

MS tech support confirms that SP1 or SP2 are required.

I just forgot to ask if BOTH were required

 

If you have sp3 integrated onto an installed disk, you don't need anything, if you have sp1 installed, you need sp2, if you have sp2 installed, you're good to go. sp2 has sp1 integrated, so you don't need to install sp1 before sp2 on a fresh copy of xp. Any copy of xp you buy now should have either sp2 or sp3 integrated already.

 

Unfortunately, my XP Home Upgrade CD is v.2002, which I believe does NOT have SP1 integral.

Can anyone point me @ where I can Get SP1 ?

 

you don't need sp1 as sp2 has it integrated, so install xp, then sp2, then sp3.

 

Thanks to all !

 

Eurocom 2700C upgrade to XP Home - Story so far:

I installed a WinXP Home Update v.2002 CD, followed by SP2 (exe), followed by SP3 (exe).

The Eurocom 2700C dropped off my network the moment the Update was 1st installed & it thinks it has no NIC.

My two new 256MB RAM sticks then arrived, so it now has 512K installed.


From a snap taken by Belarc Advisor right before the Upgrade.

"Gericom SiS 630S
Board: KAPOK SiS 630S
Efficient Networks P.P.P.o.E. Adapter (NTSP3)
Infrared PnP Serial Port (*PNP0510)
SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter
primary Auto IP Address: 192.168.0.145 / 24
Gateway: 192.168.0.1
Dhcp Server: 192.168.0.1
Physical Address: 00:90:F5:07:44:74

Networking Dns Servers: 216.254.141.13
209.90.160.220 "

 

have you tried reinstalling the drivers?

Here are the latest ones from clevo

 

OK !

I used an upgrade XP Home CD & none of the drivers worked afterwords.
I also started to get a "run 0vmakfil.exe" error after booting, right before the Welcome Screen starts

I did a clean install w. XP Home w.SP2 (& added SP3), and now everything works 100%,
EXCEPT I still get that "run 0vmakfil.exe" error after booting, right before the Welcome Screen starts.

Help anyone ?

 

use HiJackThis, and disable it from starting up.

 

that 0vmakfil.exe is running from another active partition on the HDD.

did you make sure to delete all other partitions when installing Windows XP again?

 

It showed three 'partitions' with only one named (C:\).

I had XP delete all of them & created a new one using all shown space.

I obviously missed a small 'hidden' one.

 

I've just downloaded HiJackThis from CNET

<http://download.cnet.com/Trend-Micro-HijackThis/3000-8022_4-10227353.html>

I've never used it in the past as I've heard it has a v. steep learning curve.

Got any 'cookbook' instructions for me ?

 

after deleting the other partitions... did the message come back?

as for HiJackThis:
- click on "Do system scan only" button
- it will then list every startup program, extra IE buttons/toolbars, services, etc...
- then you CHECK whichever one you want to disable from startup (if its listed), and click "Fix checked"

then that should remove that particular item from starting up the next time you run Windows

 

Yes, I deleted the partitions (I thought) at the v.start of the clean XP install.

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HiJackThis
Since the error shows just BEFORE windows does, right after 'Auto-detect IDE devices', won't it be NOT running in XP ?

 

so you cant even get into Safe Mode?

 

Oh everything works 100%, except for the many loud BLEEPs and several error messages each time windows is about to start (from reboot, cold start, etc...).

V. annoying...