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Originally Posted by bornmusician
Ok this is going to sound pathetic since I do tech-support for a living but....
I bought a new laptop. It arrived Wednesday. Glorious beautiful ASUS with amazing nvidia graphics and the new quad core Sandy Bridge processor! perfection!! I backup all my files to my external hdd and port everything over. No biggie.
Decided to give my old laptop to my mom to save her from having to buy one. In the format process. Attempting to install WinXP and the included drivers (these are the discs that came with it, mind you). 3 hours later.......it still isn't recognizing half of the drivers, the main one being the wireless adapter. SO FREAKIN TICKED!!!
I do this for a LIVING and I can't get XP to install correctly. Ugh, stick a fork in me...I'm done.  |
If you're installing WinXP (from a desktop version CD) onto a laptop - it can be hellish - esp. if it's XP home edition. I have found that XP has a lot of issues recognizing drivers, ports, hardware, etc. if it's not the original box it was installed on. I wonder if the discs that came with the laptop were really for the desktop version, and some "tweaks" were done in factory to get it onto the laptop. Depending on the age of the laptop, you may be experiencing a mis-match between what's actually on the CD and the hardware in the laptop.