ptitterington
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I would appreciate any assistance.
At the moment I am on holiday in cyprus and am trying to sort out my fatherinlaws laptop
It is a Hi-Grade notbook L8400 700chip and about 12 gig HD
It is Phoenix bios ver 0105
The problem is that it was working ok on win 98se but was a pain for his digital photos.
I got him xp pro and he had a friend on the Island try to install it.
The guy is a proper Tec who knows what he is doing but said that the machine is basically an Acer and the problem is that the modem is onboard and will not work with xp and drivers do not exist. He has upgraded to xp on fat 32 but admits the machine needs wiping and a clean boot on NTFS as the reg is full of .dlls.
Anyway is sthi all correct, can I wipe it and just get an external modem.
He basically only wants to send some emails and store his pics.
I think that I will aslo need to swop in a cd burner to allow him to backup his pics.
I have very little experience with notebooks and any assistance would be appreciated It has taken about 2 hours of chashes and lockups to just make this post
At the moment I am on holiday in cyprus and am trying to sort out my fatherinlaws laptop
It is a Hi-Grade notbook L8400 700chip and about 12 gig HD
It is Phoenix bios ver 0105
The problem is that it was working ok on win 98se but was a pain for his digital photos.
I got him xp pro and he had a friend on the Island try to install it.
The guy is a proper Tec who knows what he is doing but said that the machine is basically an Acer and the problem is that the modem is onboard and will not work with xp and drivers do not exist. He has upgraded to xp on fat 32 but admits the machine needs wiping and a clean boot on NTFS as the reg is full of .dlls.
Anyway is sthi all correct, can I wipe it and just get an external modem.
He basically only wants to send some emails and store his pics.
I think that I will aslo need to swop in a cd burner to allow him to backup his pics.
I have very little experience with notebooks and any assistance would be appreciated It has taken about 2 hours of chashes and lockups to just make this post