comes with reinstall disks so pretty obvious?
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comes with reinstall disks so pretty obvious?
runs fine on mine, no slower than xp for netstuff which i guess a netbook is for lol
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Did you have any issues with drivers etc? Or did Vista find them automatically?
installed the wlan driver from the wlan maker and no problems from there
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So apart from that you did not need anything else. Do you use all the samsung battery manager etc or dont you really need all the preinstalled software that comes with xp?
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I think we all know it comes with the discs, what isnt obvious is that fact that we dont have a CD drive...
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im confused about this too, you can't exactly share a network drive if you don't have windows installed...
i guess you have to get an external optical drive.
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When I reinstalled XP I copied and pasted the contents of the driver CD to a USB stick (the driver cd in explorer mode has lots of folders with numbered folders in it). Then I went through manually and installed what I needed, handily each folder has a text file with a description of the software to filter out the junk.
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Well I loaded Vista onto my Sammy netbook no problems at all using the USB flash drive method. 
For anyone thats interested you can get most of the drivers for Vista from here: http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/Notebook/Driver_Model.aspx?ProductID=2835
Only thing thats puzzling me is I dont seem to be able to turn the brightness down on the screen as the Samsung battery manger dont work. Anyone else got any suggestions for an alternative?
For anyone thats interested you can get most of the drivers for Vista from here: http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/Notebook/Driver_Model.aspx?ProductID=2835
Only thing thats puzzling me is I dont seem to be able to turn the brightness down on the screen as the Samsung battery manger dont work. Anyone else got any suggestions for an alternative?
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I havn't got round to it yet, but i have installed Windows 7 and i've got it running pretty much perfectly!
Only thing thats puzzling me is I dont seem to be able to turn the brightness down on the screen as the Samsung battery manger dont work. Anyone else got any suggestions for an alternative?
You will need Easy Display Manager to get your Fn buttons working. This should give you your volume/brightness functions back.
I didnt bother with Battery Manager as Vista comes with Mobility Centre for controlling power settings.
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Wooo! Managed to get this for £286 inc vat and delivery. Bargain!
Will let you know how I get on when it arrives.
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Will let you know how I get on when it arrives.
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I still cant adjust my brightness.
have you tried both the xp and vista version of EDM?
from the samsung website as opposed to the driver cd that came with it?
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Hey guys
needs some information about my NC10
I download lots of things on my computer overnight while i am asleep. Im trying to find out the best way to do this power wise and to make sure the screen isnt on as that will make my room so light at night lol
I know that if i close my laptop screen all the way down it wont turn off the computer but it will just lock it and put it on hibernate mode i think that means it turns off and closes all my applications which are running such as my internet connection untill i open the screen back up and press the power button to turn itself on quickly to its normal state. so that wouldnt work at all for me!
or maybe plug it into the mains and just turn the screen off using the control pannel and turn it back on in the morning?
what are you ideas
thanks in advance
needs some information about my NC10
I download lots of things on my computer overnight while i am asleep. Im trying to find out the best way to do this power wise and to make sure the screen isnt on as that will make my room so light at night lol
I know that if i close my laptop screen all the way down it wont turn off the computer but it will just lock it and put it on hibernate mode i think that means it turns off and closes all my applications which are running such as my internet connection untill i open the screen back up and press the power button to turn itself on quickly to its normal state. so that wouldnt work at all for me!
or maybe plug it into the mains and just turn the screen off using the control pannel and turn it back on in the morning?
what are you ideas
thanks in advance
if you go to display settings>screen saver>power
then go advance and you and decide what you want to happen when you close the lid down.
i have it do nothing, so i can close my lid, screen off but everything continues to run!
sounds like what you want!
then go advance and you and decide what you want to happen when you close the lid down.
i have it do nothing, so i can close my lid, screen off but everything continues to run!
sounds like what you want!
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aha! perfect guys thanks a lot! Happy new year! wooo!