VISTA UPGRADE QUESTION
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I have got the upgrade version of Vista Home Premium and I have been told I can use it for a clean install or upgrade. If I just decide to upgrade I would like to get rid of the HP Recovery partition on the hard drive which according to the HP website I should do,however HP are not very helpful with information unless you use the Upgrade Redemption scheme which I just couldnt be bothered to wait for. Any help gratefully received as I would like to upgrade tomorrow
If you have problems getting the upgrade version to do a clean install, there's a set of instructions floating around whereby you install Vista once "clean" then upgrade the install you just did with the same copy! You then delete the Windows.old folder which is the first, unused, install.
Decided on the upgrade route and everything is great except one thing. My quickplay mute button on my laptop is constantly orange instead of blue. It bleeps when you press it and it adds and removes a mute symbol on the speaker icon in my task bar,but try as I might i dont get any sound. I have uninstalled the conexant sound driver and reinstalled it and likewise with the quickplay drivers but to no avail. Help, everything is great except for this problem. Any advice greatly received
grazer15 said:
Decided on the upgrade route and everything is great except one thing. My quickplay mute button on my laptop is constantly orange instead of blue. It bleeps when you press it and it adds and removes a mute symbol on the speaker icon in my task bar,but try as I might i dont get any sound. I have uninstalled the conexant sound driver and reinstalled it and likewise with the quickplay drivers but to no avail. Help, everything is great except for this problem. Any advice greatly received
But promptly ignored, perhaps?
Have you tried HP to see if they have any Vista drivers specific to the laptop?
grazer15 said:
I just didnt feel confident enough to try the clean install. The sound was initially working until i downloaded the specific hp drivers the website recommends you do. I tried rolling them back in the device manager but this made no difference
Girly wuss
Try deleting the device in Device Manager, then either restarting or selecting the My computer and pressing f5. This may make Vista use its internal drivers, or it might wander off and find the HP drivers again, in which case delete the directory they were installed from and retry. Of course, it might also be that Vista now has them in its internal drivers database, in which case you will experience the joy of a clean install. Have fun.
I was thinking about upgrading, but would not in a squillion years pay that silly retail price, even for the upgrade version, especially when the OEM equivilents are a lot cheaper (Vista Ultimate is just over £100!)
Cheaper buying a few PC parts and the OEM, rather than the retail price - at least, that's what I always do!
...And having to upgrade over an exsisting XP installation doesn't sound too clever, especially when you could do a clean install with XP, with simply inserting the '98 CD for verification!
Cheaper buying a few PC parts and the OEM, rather than the retail price - at least, that's what I always do!
...And having to upgrade over an exsisting XP installation doesn't sound too clever, especially when you could do a clean install with XP, with simply inserting the '98 CD for verification!
randlemarcus said:
grazer15 said:
Decided on the upgrade route and everything is great except one thing. My quickplay mute button on my laptop is constantly orange instead of blue. It bleeps when you press it and it adds and removes a mute symbol on the speaker icon in my task bar,but try as I might i dont get any sound. I have uninstalled the conexant sound driver and reinstalled it and likewise with the quickplay drivers but to no avail. Help, everything is great except for this problem. Any advice greatly received
But promptly ignored, perhaps?
Have you tried HP to see if they have any Vista drivers specific to the laptop?
Sound drivers tend to be one of the major problems with upgrading to vista as there is a big change in the way that vista handles sound. There really is nothing you can do apart from wait for HP to release working drivers for Vista or get used to a quiet lappy.
It was only after I installed HP's latest updates that my orange mute button lit up and the sound stopped. If I had just left it as it was I would have sound,I have been into device manager and rolled back the drivers but this hasnt done a thing. WHAT NEXT TO DO???????????????????????????????????????
randlemarcus said:
grazer15 said:
I just didnt feel confident enough to try the clean install. The sound was initially working until i downloaded the specific hp drivers the website recommends you do. I tried rolling them back in the device manager but this made no difference
Girly wuss
Try deleting the device in Device Manager, then either restarting or selecting the My computer and pressing f5. This may make Vista use its internal drivers, or it might wander off and find the HP drivers again, in which case delete the directory they were installed from and retry. Of course, it might also be that Vista now has them in its internal drivers database, in which case you will experience the joy of a clean install. Have fun.
Listen to advice? obviously not...
I have been listening to the advice,all suggestions tried. However I went into Device Manager,I deleted the quick launch buttons,conexant sound then I went into add/remove programs and deleted the quickplay program as well and restarted. Low and behold when the computer restarted my sound has returned. Yippee,all sorted and now I am enjoying the experience of Vista.I had tried the sound driver before so I aint sure which of the three things I deleted has done the trick. Who cares all sorted
grazer15 said:
I have been listening to the advice,all suggestions tried. However I went into Device Manager,I deleted the quick launch buttons,conexant sound then I went into add/remove programs and deleted the quickplay program as well and restarted. Low and behold when the computer restarted my sound has returned. Yippee,all sorted and now I am enjoying the experience of Vista.I had tried the sound driver before so I aint sure which of the three things I deleted has done the trick. Who cares all sorted
Twas the deleting the device rather than rolling back the driver. Trust me on this, cause that was my suggestion [smug grin]
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