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well got my laptop in the end, not a Mac pro book, to costly.

got a dell xps1530 it looks and seems great BUT it has vista on it and i'm havuing a job putting XP on her, any thoughts from you clever PC lot!

Cheer MW

Best 1/4 mile 13.2 seconds @116 mph
First 5 port miniturbo to make over 200 bhp on a carb?
First 5 port miniturbo to make over 200 bhp on Injection?

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what problems you getting matt?

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i put the XP disc in, press F12 and boot from the dics, it them says some thing about no drivers so can't continue to install.

Best 1/4 mile 13.2 seconds @116 mph
First 5 port miniturbo to make over 200 bhp on a carb?
First 5 port miniturbo to make over 200 bhp on Injection?

http://www.mattwoodsphotography.com

1st go to Bios

Then Drives

Then Sata Operation

And set it to RAID AUTODETECT/ATA

If the drives are raided you will need to load the raid drivers (i didnt the laptops raided hdd however)

Mike

Edited by MikeRace on 25th Sep, 2008.

1/4 Mile 14.3secs 96Mph Terminal 10psi of boost.


Fibreglass Parts? - http://www.tdkracing.co.uk/
Split Rims? - http://www.force-racing.co.uk/

some laptops use SATA Hard disks and even if they are not in a raid you sometimes need the drivers i have a batch at work that are like this (such a pain)

also id it no drivers or no drives(ie hard disk)

"Tuning should be a compromise between what is possible and what is necessary"

10)Thou shalt always quest for more power

They have a setting in the bios on the Hdd Sata Operation.

One works with vista, one works with vista and xp.

1/4 Mile 14.3secs 96Mph Terminal 10psi of boost.


Fibreglass Parts? - http://www.tdkracing.co.uk/
Split Rims? - http://www.force-racing.co.uk/

Vista is better anyways..

I agree, i hated it at 1st, but once you learn where everthing is its miles nicer.

1/4 Mile 14.3secs 96Mph Terminal 10psi of boost.


Fibreglass Parts? - http://www.tdkracing.co.uk/
Split Rims? - http://www.force-racing.co.uk/

thanks for all your comments and helps guys, Maybe i'll give it a day or 2 to settle in, i was just worried about it taking un needed memory and power away from the unit, as it's a work tool i don't care about the looks ect.

Best 1/4 mile 13.2 seconds @116 mph
First 5 port miniturbo to make over 200 bhp on a carb?
First 5 port miniturbo to make over 200 bhp on Injection?

http://www.mattwoodsphotography.com

miniwilliams if you are confident with a pc you can tweek vista and get it running very very well i have vista on my pc at home and have tweeked it now runs as well as xp i have never had it crash (touch wood) if you decide you want to there are plenty of detail if you google

Edited by turbominij on 25th Sep, 2008.

"Tuning should be a compromise between what is possible and what is necessary"

10)Thou shalt always quest for more power

Cheers TurbominiJ, i see what you mean, I've just had a go at that, putting the setting to be best for performance, and stopping all the crap loading up at start up, it seems i bit better and isn't using as much ram as before, but still using a shti load compared to my XP main pc lol..

Best 1/4 mile 13.2 seconds @116 mph
First 5 port miniturbo to make over 200 bhp on a carb?
First 5 port miniturbo to make over 200 bhp on Injection?

http://www.mattwoodsphotography.com

See how you get on with your new settings but if you really want to go back to XP you will need to do the following:

1, identify the sata chipset and download the sata drivers (from Dell), copy them to floppy or cd

2, ensure XP drivers are available for all your devices - sounds odd but some manufacturers have stopped writing XP ones.

if you are going to go for it, when booting off of the XP CD you should notice a 'press f6' on the earlier boot screens, you will then be prompted for the driver files - copied in step 1. This ensures the installation process can see the HD.

It is pretty straight forward but a fair bit of work by the time you have recognised all the devices and installed all the relevant drivers.

Good luck! :)

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1/4 Mile 14.3secs 96Mph Terminal 10psi of boost.


Fibreglass Parts? - http://www.tdkracing.co.uk/
Split Rims? - http://www.force-racing.co.uk/

i wouldnt worry mat with 4g of ram i cant see any problems you will still have 3g spare, i know alot of ppes who use vista and now the recon its alot better than xp.

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