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I've got a compaq persario 1200xl304 and just yesterday I decided that it should have win2000, so I went on and installed it fresh.. getting rid of any trace of winME. Ofcourse I expected some problems to arrise but I was able to sort most of them out.. but the Onboard soundcard (Soundblaster) will just not install. I've sorted through compaq.com and creative.com for hours and still no answers .. I have no driver with the comp.. and so far nothing online has worked even slightly. Anyone ever go through something similar or have some insight?

edit: oh yeah.. it's a laptop.

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PostIcon Posted on: Sep. 09 2001,21:29 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
I've got the perfect solution:


GET RID OF THAT CRAP!!!!


That's about your only way to solve your problems. Get rid of it and buy a Dell.

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hp bought compaq for a reason... they both suck when it comes to computers.
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PostIcon Posted on: Sep. 10 2001,01:22 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
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Originally posted by MattimeoZ80:
hp bought compaq for a reason... they both suck when it comes to computers.

Now you have one less company to stay away from.

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PostIcon Posted on: Sep. 10 2001,01:32 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
That’s the beauty of comaq; you never have to upgrade. Or was it you CAN never upgrade...I forget which it is...
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PostIcon Posted on: Sep. 10 2001,12:45 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
most of the time, there's a way you can work around the drivers that came with the system IE you make the cd's think your win2k is actually a compaq.

the drivers are there on the cds...you just have to look for them.

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PostIcon Posted on: Sep. 10 2001,19:56 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
I think I'm going to be forced to downgrade this compaq back to winME... since the soundcard still worked there.. and there is a "WinME recovery" CD in the package... (which btw uses some sort of compression I can't figure out.. so I can't get my sound driver from in there.. <sigh> ) Maybe I should install winMe.. get sound going.. then find the drivers holding it up.. then transfer them onto win2k.. hmmm.... ! nah.. probably wouldn't work.
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My sympathy. My aunt sent me a ancient piece of Compaq crap. (Thank you so much! I think I will go start a bonfire!) It is hilarious. It doesn't have Win98 or even 95. Get this... It's Win 3.1! It's useless! I can only play Mah-Jong! I think I will take the Motherboard out and put it on my wall as a decoration. Uhhh.

I now have 3 useless computers... 1 very usefull but I don't even own it...

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PostIcon Posted on: Sep. 20 2001,14:28 Skip to the previous post in this topic.  Ignore posts   QUOTE
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I've got a compaq

Ok everybody say it with me.

Softpaq.

Did you download them... all of them?

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