Installation problems

[rjfvillarosa]

Originally Posted by trulad Isn't BIOS controlled by the chip and not the battery?

Yes, but if the battery is faulty and mains power is removed from the PSU by means of the on/off switch or unplugging the power lead, then as you know the BIOS will be reset to the date when the motherboard was made and any changes lost.

See if your HDD is listed here for the drivers:
http://support.wdc.com/product/downl...vel1=6&lang=en

[trulad]

Ok, Vista would not start about 1 in 3 times. I checked the plug to the SATA drive and noticed there was an unused plug. I switched to that one and now it starts perfectly each time. Bad plug?

[Detonate]

I went through this last year with a HP laptop. A young college student brought it to me after the repair guys at Best Buy screwed it up. She had taken it to them because she was having problems with it and that is where she bought it from. It was out of warranty and they charged her $200 to fix it. When she brought it to me, they had nuked and paved it with a copy of Vista that was for a Dell machine, and every time she booted up she got an error message about it being an illegal copy of Vista. She had the original installation disks that came with the machine, so I tried to reinstall vista using that but the drivers for the hard drive where not present on her recovery disk. Imagine HP supplying her with a recovery disk that did not contain the necessary drivers for her machine. I contacted HP and they gave me a bunch of instructions about downloading the drivers and making a new CD slipstreaming the drivers to the CD, but after trying to get it to work for several days, it still would not work. I never did get it to install, so I installed Ubuntu and she has been happy with it ever since.