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[fruitie_gambler]

Hi Guys,

I have a Dell Vostro 1700 with two hard drives. Its currently running windows vista home premium which I hate. The laptop keeps freezing when I boot it up on battery at the windows load up. It works fine plugged in to the ac adaptor.
I have installed the latest bios and reinstalled vista but it keeps happening. I even tried a new battery.

Could this be down to vista. Is it worth putting xp on or can I put xp on the other hard drive and dual boot?

I have a copy of xp on my main home PC. Can I clone this hard drive or do I need to buy a copy of xp?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[Matty.N]

HDD sizes?

and no you cant clone the pcs HD & use that cop of xp to boot ya lappy install xp on the 2nd partition, ive done that & can still acess all my files that are saved on my vista partition

[fruitie_gambler]

They are 2 x120gb hard drives.

Laptop spec is as follows:
Intel Core Diuo T7250@2.00 Ghz
3070MB RAM
Vista Home Premium
2 x 120gb hrd drive
Nvidia GeForce 8600 Graphics Card

If anyone has any ideas on why it would freeze that would be great.

Many thanks

[Matty.N]

maybe faulty connection between your battery & system?

if you've got a vista disk id do a complete total & utter reinstall as some of the core files could be damaged

& as for getting xp installed look here



helped me get it all set up & working

[todd1970]

Hi Guys,

I have a Dell Vostro 1700 with two hard drives. Its currently running windows vista home premium which I hate. The laptop keeps freezing when I boot it up on battery at the windows load up. It works fine plugged in to the ac adaptor.
I have installed the latest bios and reinstalled vista but it keeps happening. I even tried a new battery.

Could this be down to vista. Is it worth putting xp on or can I put xp on the other hard drive and dual boot?

I have a copy of xp on my main home PC. Can I clone this hard drive or do I need to buy a copy of xp?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Just when you mentioned the 'V' word and talked about your laptop crashing all the time.

I woulda thought that was quite a common occurrence ?

Seriously though..might be worth checking you have SP1 installed and i believe SP2 beta is out atm.

Also try Windows update site if you can stay BSOD free that long as sometimes its just a driver update issue.

Edited by todd1970, 05 February 2009 - 01:24 AM.
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[Matty.N]

[quote name='todd1970']Seriously though..might be worth checking you have SP1 installed and i believe SP2 beta is out atm./quote]


OOO vista sp2

might have to check it out ^_^

[todd1970]

Seriously though..might be worth checking you have SP1 installed and i believe SP2 beta is out atm./quote]


OOO vista sp2

might have to check it out ^_^

Download Windows Vista Service Pack 2 - Vista SP2 (Full package)

There ya go m8..but remember Beta is Beta* 'see todds disclaimer at bottom of page'






*todd1970 cannot be held responsible for other members actions in installing Beta Service packs and possibly damaging Windows operating systems.*


Naw..wait its Vista innit its damaged enough as it is..carry on.

[Matty.N]

Download Windows Vista Service Pack 2 - Vista SP2 (Full package)

There ya go m8..but remember Beta is Beta* 'see todds disclaimer at bottom of page'






*todd1970 cannot be held responsible for other members actions in installing Beta Service packs and possibly damaging Windows operating systems.*


Naw..wait its Vista innit its damaged enough as it is..carry on.

cheers

& if vista gets screwed idc

i got a system rsstor from a few days ago & XP SP3 installed all ready to go if vista dies on me

& lol yeah it already is broken

[frig]

I have a Vostro 1700 also, but I made Dell put xp on it, and it froze up after 2-3 weeks of use. I reinstalled xp and it froze up again after another few weeks. it turned out to be a faulty hard drive. The fault showed up in Dells built in diagnostics, and Dell eventually got me a new hard drive. I did get battery faults on boot up (the bleep) but that could of been down to living in Spain at the time, as I have not had them since.

That was about 6 months ago. I have had no trouble since, so if your hard drives are fine and your battery is fine, then get rid of Vista and put on XP.