Last year the wife’s brother purchaced and sent us a COMPAQ Presario PC with Vista on it. A few weeks ago the wife did a complete system restore to factory settings on the machine, we noticed that the Vista "key" changed and I recognized that as a sign of a Refurbished Machine. Since the restore, this moronic Vista machine has been acting up with all sorts of things.
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#1. We had to put in an nVIDIA e-GeForce 8400 GS card since the onboard graphics were a joke. Since the restore, the thing keeps resettings the display from 1024×768 to 800×600 and keeps telling us the nVIDIA drivers have stopped working.
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#2. When ever I check the space left on the harddrive, its NEVER the same. One moment its 80GB free, and then ten minutes later its 100GB free, and yet another ten minutes later it says 40GB free. So I have NO clue how much space this PC really has open. This is getting annoying.
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So, I got a copy of Windows XP and put it on a new harddrive using our other PC.
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My Question For GeekSquad…
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If I were to pop open the Vista PC case, take out the Harddrive it currently has and put in the XP harddrive, will there be any issues with the onboard sound card, CD Drive, and other "integrated" things this PC has?
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Or should I simply toss this POS Vista machine in the trash and build a new PC with XP on it?
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