I reloaded Windows XP on my notebook. Now it’s not working properly.
I recently bought myself a Compaq nx9005 notebook. Everything was working when I first got it. I then tried to install a favorite game I used to play back in my teenage years. Unbeknown to me, this was never going to work because the program was too old. In my naivety I thought the best way to sort this out was to reload XP pro from disk. I didn’t really know what I was doing but just went with the flow. Anyway, it all came up trumps but then now I have problems connecting to the internet, and when I’m on the internet and I scroll down, the page scrolls in waves and just generally goes slow. I’ve asked a friend and he says that from what I describe, it sounds like in reloading XP pro, I deleted a few drivers which I need to make the laptop run at its normal speed. Any advice?
Yep, it sounds like you are missing some device drivers, at least the graphics driver for sure. You can see the missing device drivers in the device manager. To access the device manager go: Start – Control Panel – System – Hardware tab – Device Manager. Not recognized devices will have a yellow exclamation mark. Here are drivers for HP Compaq nx9005 notebook PC (for Windows XP). Download and install all missing drivers until all exclamation marks in the device manager are gone.
May 3rd, 2008 at 8:12 am
I am having similar issues with a Sony PCG-V505BP. I think there must be a set of divers for this laptop. Anyone know where to download them?
May 5th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Ian,
You can download drivers for your Sony Vaio PCG-V505BP from European website here.
May 7th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Hi, Yes, been to this site but all the software seems be updates rather than drivers for a fresh start. Any ideas?
May 7th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
Ian,
Check the device manager. If the network adapter is installed you can connect to the Internet and run Windows update. It’s possible that Microsoft has missing drivers for your laptop.
February 9th, 2009 at 1:36 am
It sounds like you’re creating problems yourself by trying to solve this issue instead of looking at why their is a problem in the first place.
February 24th, 2009 at 9:47 am
Hi people, i need advice please, i have a dell studio 1535 laptop running vista, my home pc runs xp, we tried installing xp on the vista laptop and its having none of it, however my friend said that i can connect the laptop to my desktop with a usb cable and this will allow me to format the laptop hard drive and install xp pro using this link, will this work, like i mentioned we tried everything to install xp on the vista laptop and get the blue screen of death every time, yet for some reason we can install win 2000 without any probs but we cannot even install x from win 2000, Has anyone got a solution, or would the link with usb between laptop/desktop work.
Thankyou for your time and instructions but need help.
Regards
Joanne