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| | 2 Part Question about Vista back to XP I bought a laptop with XP on it because i heard that Vista had issues, about 6 months ago i used my Upgrade CD to try out Vista, the check told me everything would be fine and so forth and so on, then i actually get into Vista and find that i am crashing to the Blue screen about 2-3 times a week because of a graphics card driver not correct. I have a laptop so i am Running an ATI Radeon 1150 (i believe) but Vista calls it a Radeon Xpress 200M Series(THIS IS WRONG!!) I went to Dell and go the driver for Vista for the Ati 1150 and Everything was fine.... Until i tried to play a game ... heck any game!?! The games can not run because the Ati 1150 is not up-to-date, yet when i use the update drive it install the crappy Microsoft driver and it Crashes Vista every day (or 2). I went to ATI and they dont have anything on the Radeon 1150 or really anything for Vista compatable laptops. #1 Anyone know of anything to help this? #2 I have my XP Pro Cds and I am temped to Re-install XP because i had NO issues with it: will install XP over Vista cause any issues?!? or would it be a clean install and would i keep all my files? |
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| | Re: 2 Part Question about Vista back to XP I recommend you contact Dell Support about the compatibility issues your experiencing wither you systems graphics and games under Windows Vista. As for reinstalling XP, it will be a clean install only. -- Andre Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com My Vista Quickstart Guide: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry "Cactus John" <CactusJohn@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:CB9E4124-7A84-47D2-A7D7-0B1B3D2D2C57@xxxxxx Quote: >I bought a laptop with XP on it because i heard that Vista had issues, >about > 6 months ago i used my Upgrade CD to try out Vista, the check told me > everything would be fine and so forth and so on, then i actually get into > Vista and find that i am crashing to the Blue screen about 2-3 times a > week > because of a graphics card driver not correct. I have a laptop so i am > Running an ATI Radeon 1150 (i believe) but Vista calls it a Radeon Xpress > 200M Series(THIS IS WRONG!!) I went to Dell and go the driver for Vista > for > the Ati 1150 and Everything was fine.... Until i tried to play a game ... > heck any game!?! The games can not run because the Ati 1150 is not > up-to-date, yet when i use the update drive it install the crappy > Microsoft > driver and it Crashes Vista every day (or 2). I went to ATI and they dont > have anything on the Radeon 1150 or really anything for Vista compatable > laptops. > > #1 Anyone know of anything to help this? > > #2 I have my XP Pro Cds and I am temped to Re-install XP because i had NO > issues with it: will install XP over Vista cause any issues?!? or would > it > be a clean install and would i keep all my files? |
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| | RE: 2 Part Question about Vista back to XP You have to do a clean install, as going to XP is considered a backwards step by vista. Back up all your Data, as everything will be lost. Set the Bios to boot from CD/DVD Drive, have XP disk in it, and follow instructions on XP disk to delete existing partition of Vista, formatt the drive, install XP "Cactus John" wrote: Quote: > I bought a laptop with XP on it because i heard that Vista had issues, about > 6 months ago i used my Upgrade CD to try out Vista, the check told me > everything would be fine and so forth and so on, then i actually get into > Vista and find that i am crashing to the Blue screen about 2-3 times a week > because of a graphics card driver not correct. I have a laptop so i am > Running an ATI Radeon 1150 (i believe) but Vista calls it a Radeon Xpress > 200M Series(THIS IS WRONG!!) I went to Dell and go the driver for Vista for > the Ati 1150 and Everything was fine.... Until i tried to play a game ... > heck any game!?! The games can not run because the Ati 1150 is not > up-to-date, yet when i use the update drive it install the crappy Microsoft > driver and it Crashes Vista every day (or 2). I went to ATI and they dont > have anything on the Radeon 1150 or really anything for Vista compatable > laptops. > > #1 Anyone know of anything to help this? > > #2 I have my XP Pro Cds and I am temped to Re-install XP because i had NO > issues with it: will install XP over Vista cause any issues?!? or would it > be a clean install and would i keep all my files? |
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