Restoring Operating System
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Unfortunately the recovery disk for the now doa machine is bound to that one only. You will need to buy a completely new installation or recovery disk. If that's a recent purchase I would go back or contact the vendor explaining that there was no recovery disk included with the unit. That's supposed to be included.
before you go spend the money on an OS, check to wee if there's a recovery partition on the hard drive. Also, I assume you're putting the CD you have into the drive, and booting holding the "C" key to try to boot from it. If you put it in while the OS is running you will probably only see drivers.
uposb4
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Its the solo 9150 and is pretty obsolete.The only reason im using it is to keep up with my ebay and whatnot while at work. Its running win-98 and i want ME or something a little more modern my travel drive will be compatible with. Im not so sure it has a partition (does it?). I dont think its fast enough to push XP and i dont mind paying the extra for a full OS. Thanks.
Its the solo 9150 and is pretty obsolete.The only reason im using it is to keep up with my ebay and whatnot while at work. Its running win-98 and i want ME or something a little more modern my travel drive will be compatible with. Im not so sure it has a partition (does it?). I dont think its fast enough to push XP and i dont mind paying the extra for a full OS. Thanks.
With a 384mb max seen for the P II model cpu I guess you are correct there to some extent. The specifications are seen at http://support.gateway.com/s/Mobile/Solo_Series/p9150/p915002.shtml
The drivers may or most likely won't work for ME on that model. One look at the available downloads shows 95, 98, and NT only. http://support.gateway.com/support/drivers/search.asp?st=pn¶m=3500425
Apparently they dropped support on that model by the time ME and 2000 were out. You would need to start looking at something newer for running ME, 2K, XP, or even Vista at this point.
The drivers may or most likely won't work for ME on that model. One look at the available downloads shows 95, 98, and NT only. http://support.gateway.com/support/drivers/search.asp?st=pn¶m=3500425
Apparently they dropped support on that model by the time ME and 2000 were out. You would need to start looking at something newer for running ME, 2K, XP, or even Vista at this point.
Dump the first edition and see if you can still find a copy of 98SE! That had all the fixes in it by that time. Why do you think many are waiting for at least Vista's SP1 due out next month before trying out an edition. The seonnd one for 98 is the one surprisingly still in use by many. Ebay or Amazon.com most likely.
Sluggish? That was the first impression on 98SE here when first tried on an old AST 486 desktop model. I slapped 98 on to try it there with the 64mb max installed then. 98SE found it's way onto the next case(custom with 512mb of memory.
The thing to try that was seen in that older version as well as in Vista too is the msconfig utility to disable anything you don't need lautomatically loading along with Windows. When you type that in at the Run prompt look in the startup group for anything other then the basics you can manually start yourself.
98 was never a fast version to start with. 95 and older versions were less featured seeing less items loaded by default. XP was the fastest over all previous versions to load up to the desktop as the big MS claim seen when that came out.
Sluggish? That was the first impression on 98SE here when first tried on an old AST 486 desktop model. I slapped 98 on to try it there with the 64mb max installed then. 98SE found it's way onto the next case(custom with 512mb of memory.
The thing to try that was seen in that older version as well as in Vista too is the msconfig utility to disable anything you don't need lautomatically loading along with Windows. When you type that in at the Run prompt look in the startup group for anything other then the basics you can manually start yourself.
98 was never a fast version to start with. 95 and older versions were less featured seeing less items loaded by default. XP was the fastest over all previous versions to load up to the desktop as the big MS claim seen when that came out.
Anything you uncheck can be re-enabled later if needed like video and sound softwares where a service being automatically loaded is necessary like the Catalyst control center for one example. For video the ATI or NV items point to the video card while CTHELPER points at part of the Creative software. Likewise avgas points at an AVG antivirus function.
Once you get familiar with the software seeing what is and what isn't essential becomes easy. In the services tab in addition to the startup group you have to use a degree of caution and check the "hide all Microsoft services" box before disabling anything in there. Without that checked off the essential background services needed to run Windows even the explorer.exe file can be disabled and Windows will stall.
If you do accidentally disable the wrong thing you simply go through the Windows F8 boot menu to boot up in safe mode in order to open the msconfig and re-enable the item you unchecked to restore normal functions. You'll see the annoying popup screen where you simply check the "don't display this screen again" option when first reaching the desktop after restarting the system.
P.S. If you list what is seen there I may be able to identify some of the items you may want to leave enabled by matching those to the programs/hardwares on your system.
Once you get familiar with the software seeing what is and what isn't essential becomes easy. In the services tab in addition to the startup group you have to use a degree of caution and check the "hide all Microsoft services" box before disabling anything in there. Without that checked off the essential background services needed to run Windows even the explorer.exe file can be disabled and Windows will stall.
If you do accidentally disable the wrong thing you simply go through the Windows F8 boot menu to boot up in safe mode in order to open the msconfig and re-enable the item you unchecked to restore normal functions. You'll see the annoying popup screen where you simply check the "don't display this screen again" option when first reaching the desktop after restarting the system.
P.S. If you list what is seen there I may be able to identify some of the items you may want to leave enabled by matching those to the programs/hardwares on your system.
uposb4
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startup list
PC, Here's the list.
scanregistry
task monitor
system tray
irmon
soundfusion
ati polab
ati pta
ati 2cwxx
load power profile
ati cwd32
ati qipcl
em_exec
critical update
dss
aug7_cc
avg7_emc
avg7_amsvr
loadpowerprofile
scheduling agent
kb918547
kb891711
ati sched
d-link air plus
Thats all, I know what a couple of them are but if you can let me know which ones i can uncheck i would really appreciate it.
PC, Here's the list.
scanregistry
task monitor
system tray
irmon
soundfusion
ati polab
ati pta
ati 2cwxx
load power profile
ati cwd32
ati qipcl
em_exec
critical update
dss
aug7_cc
avg7_emc
avg7_amsvr
loadpowerprofile
scheduling agent
kb918547
kb891711
ati sched
d-link air plus
Thats all, I know what a couple of them are but if you can let me know which ones i can uncheck i would really appreciate it.
I don't recognise dss but you can plainly see all of the ATI as well as AVG items there. Soundfusion sounds like the software for onboard sound if you don't an expansion installed there just by the name alone. D-Link for a modem or ethernet connection would be left alone to get online.
Thaere's a pair of odd ones namely kb918547 and kb891711 as well as em_exec. The "critical update" is not an MS but 3rd party item for automatically checking online for updates for the particular program involved there. Items like that can left alone or disabled without realing doing much except bring up annoying popups alerting you to an update while you are busy doing something else.
Thaere's a pair of odd ones namely kb918547 and kb891711 as well as em_exec. The "critical update" is not an MS but 3rd party item for automatically checking online for updates for the particular program involved there. Items like that can left alone or disabled without realing doing much except bring up annoying popups alerting you to an update while you are busy doing something else.