Topic: Compaq hell
started by: Tattered
Posted by Tattered on Sep. 09 2001,20:53
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. 
This message has been edited by Tattered on September 10, 2001 at 03:53 PM
Posted by demonk on Sep. 09 2001,21:29
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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Posted by MattimeoZ80 on Sep. 09 2001,23:25
hp bought compaq for a reason... they both suck when it comes to computers.
Posted by justcozz on Sep. 10 2001,01:22
quote:
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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Posted by Blain on Sep. 10 2001,01:32
That’s the beauty of comaq; you never have to upgrade. Or was it you CAN never upgrade...I forget which it is...
Posted by [liquid] meta on Sep. 10 2001,12:45
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.
Posted by Tattered on Sep. 10 2001,19:56
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.
Posted by spOon on Sep. 11 2001,05:50
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...
Posted by L33T_h4x0r_d00d on Sep. 20 2001,14:28
quote:
Originally posted by Tattered:
I've got a compaq
Ok everybody say it with me.
Softpaq.
Did you download them... all of them?
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