I have ALL of the above and it still SUCKS.
When I have the time, I’m booting from a USB floppy to install the right SATA drivers necessary to install WinXP Pro on this miserable POS and, hopefully regain both my laptop’s functionality and my sanity.
What are your specs?
Especially: Do you know what kind of hard drive you have [ata100, ata133, satai, or sataii?], and how fast it spins [5400, 7200, or 10000 rpm?]
Hopefully you can figure how to USB install XP Pro on SATA drive with lockdown BIOS . Like some new HP computers the Phoenix BIOS you can’t change SATA mode to native IDE anymore. I had to build by command line slipstreaming the XP Pro SP1 install CD integrate with SP2 update plus AHCI driver and bunt it into bootable XP Pro SP2 install CD with AHCI driver. Without AHCI driver XP Pro won’t install. I simply carefully followed what I found in the Web.
Maybe I’m a rarity, but I’ve had Vista Business running on 4 home systems (two laptops and two desktops, all 2-3 years old) for about 8 months now, and I haven’t had even one problem.
I never thought I’d say this, but I’m really happy with it.
Other posters here are correct - get the fastest non-built-in video card you can, along with Dual Core processor and lots of RAM (at least 2 GB) and you’ll be OK.
Maybe I’m a rarity, but I’ve had Vista Business running on 4 home systems (two laptops and two desktops, all 2-3 years old) for about 8 months now, and I haven’t had even one problem.
I never thought I’d say this, but I’m really happy with it.
Other posters here are correct - get the fastest non-built-in video card you can, along with Dual Core processor and lots of RAM (at least 2 GB) and you’ll be OK.