PackardBell SJ82 and XP drivers

Spyron · Mar 25, 2008, 02:25 AM

Hello! Recently I have purchased the PackardBell SJ82 notebook. It is really great but it has one disadvantage - Vista. I was trying to taim the Windows Vista but it really slows down my work (Photoshop has some kind of LAGs, Dreamweaver says that he doesn't have enough memory and stops formating the source code, which is VERY annoying!). So I was very happy when I got Windows XP with licence. I have installed it but then i had to face one big problem. There are no WinXP drivers delivered by notebook producer. So I have downloaded each driver from hardware producers. But they are not working damn it! I have errors like: "Installer didn't find compatible hardware" or worse: "You don't have Windows Vista, setup will now quit". I have tried the Omega drivers, but it didn't do any good. Is there any hope for me? Do I have to go back to Vista. I would rather kill myself. I really can't work on that OS!). The funny thing is that I have UBUNTU installed and it has all the drivers. The display drivers are from nVidia site itself!

***temeteus82*** · Mar 25, 2008, 03:16 AM

Hi there and welcome to DriverHeaven!

If the laptop came with Vista pre installed it means that PackardBell is only making the drivers for it. Since they might have changed the hardware ID's so that the drivers from the chip makers won't work. That is well known fact in the world of laptops.

As for Vista if you are running less that 2Gb of RAM then you should really get USB pen drive that is Ready Boost compatible it makes the system a bit faster. And if you reinstall Vista install the SP1.

Spyron · May 6, 2008, 12:49 PM

I did it, if someone would like me to help, just send me an email.