HP Notebook problem

I am not Junky. :-(

Perhaps you can find testing program on the HP support site. There are many third-party utilities, but maybe someone else come with recommendation, as all programs I tried don't check for all Windows, multimedia (and laptop) keys.
 
sajunky said:
I am not Junky. :-(

Perhaps you can find testing program on the HP support site. There are many third-party utilities, but maybe someone else come with recommendation, as all programs I tried don't check for all Windows, multimedia (and laptop) keys.
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Sorry about that, sajunky, I think that it must be a windows driver gone wrong but don't know how to correct it other than a clean install which is a bit of a hassle to retrieve the data.
Thanks for your help.
 
reneg8or said:
Off-topic: my HP Notebook cannot maintain an Internet connection when on WinXP Pro SP3 + PC Suite via BT/USB on my Nokia E63. The same setup sees me having instant internet on any Linux distro. Driver issue or does XP and Linux manage power to USB ports differently?
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Make your own thread, Hijacker...:mad:
 
What about booting miniXP from Hiren's boot CD? If it behaves similiarly, it is not a driver problem.
 
GrootP said:
Sorry about that, sajunky, I think that it must be a windows driver gone wrong but don't know how to correct it other than a clean install which is a bit of a hassle to retrieve the data.
Thanks for your help.
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Backup your data with that linux livecd.
 
Thanks to you all.
I will clone the disk & then try a factory reset or clean install, if that does not work, I will investigate Ubuntu & willl no doubt need plenty more help. :D
 
Ponder, you supplied 3 links, which would be the easiest for a Linux newbie ?
 
GrootP said:
Ponder, you supplied 3 links, which would be the easiest for a Linux newbie ?
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To install or just to test with?

To install I would say go with Xubuntu. The reason I suggest Xubuntu and not Ubuntu is that your laptop's GPU might not support Unity on Ubuntu.

If you have an existing linux livecd from a terminal copy & paste the output of cat /proc/cpuinfo and lspci -v here here so we can be very certain of your exact hardware. just wanna check if your CPU is PAE enabled and what GPU you have before we make any final recommendations and not waste your bandwidth by downloading somehting that might not work.
 
GrootP said:
I was looking for the linux livecd to test firs
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Depends on whether your CPU has PAE support or not.

Before I can recommend anything do you know EXACTLY which CPU your laptop has? You could go into the BIOS (F10) and under File-->System Information it shoudl give you some deatails which you could post here but I don't know if that would be enough. Unless you use one of those other rescue CDs you have to get the cpu info.

A lot of linux distros these days will only work on processors with PAE support (able to address 4GB+ ram on 32-bit CPUs). Your particular laptop came with both PAE enabled and non-PAE CPUs from what I recall.

This http://crunchbang.org/download/get/crunchbang-11-20130119-i486.iso will definitely work on any laptop but I would generally not recommend it for people new to linux to install. But if you only want to use it for testing purposes then it will be fine.

If your laptop has a Pentium M 730, 740, 750, 760, 770 or 780 CPU then I would say download the 32-bit version of Xubuntu and not Crunchbang, http://xubuntu.org/getxubuntu/
 
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ponder said:
Depends on whether your CPU has PAE support or not.

Before I can recommend anything do you know EXACTLY which CPU your laptop has? You could go into the BIOS (F10) and under File-->System Information it shoudl give you some deatails which you could post here but I don't know if that would be enough. Unless you use one of those other rescue CDs you have to get the cpu info.

A lot of linux distros these days will only work on processors with PAE support (able to address 4GB+ ram on 32-bit CPUs). Your particular laptop came with both PAE enabled and non-PAE CPUs from what I recall.

This http://crunchbang.org/download/get/crunchbang-11-20130119-i486.iso will definitely work on any laptop but I would generally not recommend it for people new to linux to install. But if you only want to use it for testing purposes then it will be fine.

If your laptop has a Pentium M 730, 740, 750, 760, 770 or 780 CPU then I would say download the 32-bit version of Xubuntu and not Crunchbang, http://xubuntu.org/getxubuntu/
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Hi, this type of detail & "nit-picking" is what scares me off of linux, it seems that a million things can go wrong & one would spend hours to get/keep your PC running?
At my age I am not sure that I feel up to it. :confused:
 
GrootP said:
Hi, this type of detail & "nit-picking" is what scares me off of linux, it seems that a million things can go wrong & one would spend hours to get/keep your PC running?
At my age I am not sure that I feel up to it. :confused:
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What nitpicking. WinXP has no PAE support so you can install it on any CPU. With linux most distros support PAE these days but those will not work on non-PAE CPUs out of the box.
All I'm trying to do is determine what's best for you laptop, I don't wanna tell you to download "xxx" and then it won't boot because your cpu lacks PAE support.

I suggest you stick with Windows. Just reinstall XP after you've backed up your data & email (many people forget about the email as it resides in a different location).
 
Thanks poder, I think I will stick to windows for now with this laptop.
I am thinking to setup a media server and think that linux will be the answer for that.
 
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