Windows Vista: Installing Vista to solve system problems
Installing Vista to solve system problems
by jbwillows - 12/5/06 12:36 PMI have a HP laptop (3 MHz Processor - 512M Mem) and over the last few months various problems with the sound card have developed. Every time I reboot, the sound card drivers are lost and I have to reinstall them. HP support says I should reload the operating system (XP) from their recovery disks.
My question is, "Would an upgrade to Vista "cleanup" the system and stablize it without a complete fresh load?" If I need to reload the whole OS, it would seem better to wait for Vista rather than load the old XP system.
Thanks for your comments.
John B. Wilson
St. Louis
Ah, maybe...
by steve749 - 12/5/06 1:09 PM In reply to: Installing Vista to solve system problems by jbwillowsThen again your memory is the minimum Vista is requiring and since you don't list the model of HP laptop you have or its specifications it is hard to see whether or not Vista would solve this though I can feel pretty confident that this would give you more headaches since you'd have to find the drivers for everything then too.
Also I think you mean 3 GHz as a 3 MHz processor would be rather old I think.
Regards,
JB
Debatable...
by John.Wilkinson
- 12/5/06 7:41 PM
In reply to: Installing Vista to solve system problems by jbwillows
Upgrading to a newer version of Windows, including Vista, does not normally 'clean things up.' To the contrary, it usually leaves remnants of the old OS behind in addition to any other 'junk' floating around your hard drive. However, Vista does require new drivers and replace key system files, so it's certainly possible that upgrading to Vista and downloading the latest updates would resolve it.
My suggestion would be to run SFC (go Start->Run and type in sfc /scannow (with the space)) to verify your system files. After that, I would download the latest version of the sound driver from the card's or chip's manufacturer's website, not HP's. You can use the free program Everest to find out more about the audio system on your laptop. If that doesn't resolve it and you intend on upgrading to Vista in the near future I would just hold off and then perform a clean installation of Vista hen the times comes, leaving all of the problems and junk behind.
John
Check hard drive
by oldgeeser - 12/5/06 9:42 PM In reply to: Installing Vista to solve system problems by jbwillowsDon't know if this is your problem or not, but I had a similar situation with installing modem drivers on a friends computer. I would be watching them in the file manager and they would just disappear before my eyes. He called me a day or two later and said his hard drive failed. It might pay to use a utility to run a check on the drive.
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