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Comment on Back in business. by Alex Gordon

Alex Gordon — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 02:05:35 +0000

У вас мигрень сегодня?... So, both computers are back up and running.....

Comment on 7 thoughts on 7 by HP

HP — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:09:18 +0000

Yep, it seems the trick to do anything in 7 or Vista is to always *insist* on doing it your way rather than doing it the windows way. I will try this method myself when I get my laptop back from service.

Comment on 7 thoughts on 7 by Ian Nielsen

Ian Nielsen — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:14:52 +0000

… Just a note; I could be slightly off in how I made Win7 update its driver – but I do remember that you really have to *insist* and always chose the most “non-automated option”. If you at any point give it an option to “bail out”, it will jump right back to “your standard vga is properly installed”. I was rather frustrated while desperately testing different combinations, so when one of the suddenly worked, I didn’t take completely note on *what* I did – I was more interested in carefully confirming that it actually worked, which it did!

Comment on 7 thoughts on 7 by Ian Nielsen

Ian Nielsen — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:58:20 +0000

I found a better solution than reinstalling Vista – I downloaded all the drivers I could think of – HP’s Vista, nVidia Win7 desktop (seems to have the 6150) and nVidia Win7 notebook (might not have any “go” lesser than 7xxx series) – all failed as you know. But they do leave their unpacked setup files behind.

Then Right-click on desktop and chose “screen resolition”. Click “Advanced settings”, Adapter-> Properties. Driver->Update Driver. “Browser my computer for driver software”->”Let me pick from a list”->”Have Disk”. And here you select the directory the nvidia setup files unpacked to.

Unfortunately I had all the files unpacked to different sub-folders in the same folder – and I think I just let Win7 search through all – as such I’m not completely certain *which* of the drivers it actually installed, but it did detect a 6150 go and it works fine. However, since the date of the driver is 2008, I assume it is the HP Vista…

Hope this helps!

Comment on 7 thoughts on 7 by hp

hp — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:02:22 +0000

Hey there,

I ran the installation file for the omega drivers in vista compatibility mode and got a few error messages during installation that I simply ignored. However, my laptop crashed completely as a result of this just a few weeks later, forcing a full re-install (of Vista) and thus, I would NOT recommend using Omega drivers for 7.

Comment on 7 thoughts on 7 by Ian Nielsen

Ian Nielsen — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 12:38:20 +0000

I’m trying to get Windows 7 32 bit to work on a HP Pavilion tx 2020. I also have problems with the graphics drivers. Can you please elaborate on how you got the ‘omega drivers’ to work? They give the same error “not vista” as the (vista32) drivers from HP…

Apparently HP will not support Windows 7 on these computers. Their recommendation is “reinstall vista”. I just realize how much I hate vendor locked hardware!

Comment on Shanghai: a virtual map adventure by hp

hp — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:36:58 +0000

Off course you can.

Comment on Shanghai: a virtual map adventure by Polprav

Polprav — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:44:09 +0000

Hello from Russia!
Can I quote a post in your blog with the link to you?

Comment on Shanghai adventures, part III: China must have the best electricians in the world. by Eddie

Eddie — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:40:57 +0000

It’s spelled ‘theatre’.

Comment on Wind. by Signhild

Signhild — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:07:11 +0000