1. I installed all the drivers I could find. There are no yellow exclamation
marks under Device Manager, so I think I got them all. Any way to confirm
that all chipset drivers are installed properly would be appreciated. Any
link to chipset drivers for this particular model from HP would be great, so
I could check to see if I have them already.
2. The hard drive is SATA, and I did notice the point of Windows setup where
you should install drivers. However I'm lacking any SATA specific drivers
for this model. Again, any link to these drivers would be appreciated.
3. My last HP was a 4550Z, which served me well and continues to be used as
a general, all purpose, computer for someone else. I bought the s7620n
mostly to check out how HP had improved their computers. It's not exactly
what I want, so I'm hoping HP will be updating their systems this spring.
"Ben Myers" <> wrote in message
news:...
> For the speed problem, did you install the drivers for the motherboard
> chipset
> FIRST, immediately after installing XP? If the hard drive is SATA, did
> you
> also install the drivers when the Windows install was going through its
> non-GUI
> startup phase?
>
> Wide open wifi routers are a problem. People do not know what they are
> doing.
> I installed a top-notch wifi card in a client's computer the other day and
> immediately found my neighbor's router. Called him up the next day and
> told
> him all about his router and computer. He was mortified... Ben Myers
>
> On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 02:18:17 GMT, "darkrats" <> wrote:
>
>>I've been playing around with this Pavilion now for a few days:
>>
>>1. Managed to wipe the HD, including the restore partition, installed XP
>>Pro
>>after making the disk FAT32. I decided against NTFS because there's a
>>little
>>more flexibility under the former file system than the latter. I can play
>>around using DOS outside of Windows. Found all the drivers, with some help
>>from this newsgroup.
>>
>>2. The machine runs slower than my old P4 does, even with 2 GB of RAM. Not
>>sure what the reason is, yet.
>>
>>3. Right away I became a little ticked off with the wireless setup. It
>>puts
>>an icon down by the clock that's impossible to remove permanently. You can
>>hide it, but it usually returns when you reboot. Also had to use an
>>updated
>>ZoneAlarm because my older version 3 couldn't handle the wireless
>>networking. It crashed my system as soon as it detected a new network.
>>Version 6 is working okay, but the alerts seem to contain more information
>>than I need to know.
>>
>>4. There are 4 icons for Removable Disks under My Computer. I don't use
>>the
>>slots, so I'd like to get rid of them. I did so using TweakUI, but it
>>would
>>be nice to have them pop up whenever a card is inserted and disappear when
>>the card is removed. It works that way with my MP3 player.
>>
>>5. I don't understand why HP chose the combination of Intel processor and
>>ATI video adapter. I would have preferred an Intel video chip. I played a
>>few older games on my machine and they ran okay. A demo of Unreal
>>Tournament
>>was a little jumpy, so I guess that's the limit for this computer.
>>
>>6. By the way, as soon as I plugged my wireless antenna in, it detected 8
>>wireless networks, presumably in my apartment building. Two of them were
>>unsecured. I unplugged my cable modem and had no problem connecting to the
>>net through those unsecured networks. I could also search those computers
>>and look at anything on them. They likely got routers for Christmas and
>>just
>>hooked them up, without any thought about security.
>>
>>So far, so good.
>>
>>
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