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xp installation

Basic Windows Reinstall

January 4, 2010

Here are the basic steps to “format and reinstall your operating system”. *If you computer has “recovery disks” Make sure all data is backed up. Put recovery CD/DVD (may be more than 1) in drive and restart. If computer does not boot to CD/DVD, then you need to set BIOS boot order to CD/DVD first [...]

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Dual Operating Systems

December 31, 2009

I’ve been asked this many time since I run dual-boot with Linux on a couple of computers. Here is an email reply that I thought would be good for the blog. —————- Question: You were telling me one time how to use 2 different operating systems on a computer. I saw your post for the [...]

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HP Code Purple Error with a Tattoo

December 31, 2009

Many of you have heard me gripe and complain about HP computers before. After working on literally thousands of computers, I have found HP to be one of the worst. Some of the reasons? Most HP towers use proprietary sizes on their motherboards making replacements much more difficult. The tight spacing inside the tower makes [...]

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Gateway GT5694 with Windows XP

July 5, 2009

I’ve just installed Windows XP on a Gateway GT5694 and finding the drivers wasn’t the easiest thing in the world. I’m posting the drivers that I used to install, including the SMBus, Wireless, Video, etc. Be aware that some of these were direct from Gateway and are the Vista drivers which contain the XP drivers [...]

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Classroom Computers

December 27, 2008

============= From Email to a client============= I’ve finally compiled my list of suggestions for helping to secure them and streamline the process of setup. This will help insure consistency of the laptops which will provide a much better classroom experience. Hopefully, the computers will be running XP, but these recommendations will work for Vista as [...]

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Reinstall Windows XP on a Laptop

December 16, 2008

Recently, I had a friend of an existing client call. His laptop had somehow corrupted (apparently) all of the drivers for XP. Unfortunately, time was short and I could not get it back to a working state, before he had to return to Arkansas. To further complicate matters, the corrupted drivers included basically all of [...]

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Gateway ESX e4000 and XP

July 23, 2008

xp drivers for the Gateway MFATXPNT ESX e4000

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