HP Compaq NC4000 laptop windows 7 problems

[marada]

I have a HP Compaq nc4000 which I have installed windows 7 on a clean hard drive. Windows 7 took 8 hours to install and now everytime it boots up it takes around an hour before I can use it. Time to boot to the desktop is around 10 minutes, however the computer remains frozen. After an hour the computer becomes responsive and I am able to use as normal. Also if I put the computer into Hibernation I can use it that way, however the moment I power off completely I will have to go through the same problems. At the moment I have nothing installed on the hard drive other than windows. There is no problem with my copy of windows as I was able to install this to my desktop without problems.

My system specs are:

1.4ghz processor
1GB of RAM
160GB HD
Windows 7 ultimate 32bit

From my own experience I probably think this is a driver problem, however I have gone onto HP website but there are no Windows 7 or Vista drivers available for my system. It just seems strange it all works as normal after about an hour.

I would be really grateful if anyone has any suggestions.

Thanks Dave

 

[fowang]

Seems like the computer is not compatable with windows 7 did you use the tool which is available from microsoft to test your system?

 

[marada]

You say it is not compatible, however it does work perfectly after about 1 hour. No I did not use the tool. Also I think it may be compatible as I saw on ebay a while ago another NC4000 being sold with Windows 7

Thanks Dave

 

[Guest]

I had this problem. Seems to be that the nc4000 does not support a 160Gb hard drive.
Changed it for a 60Gb drive (HP tech say this is the maximum supported size) and everything is fine.

 

[marada]

Thanks for your reply. I put in a 60gb hardrive and installed windows 7. Now everything works perfect, apart from the fact that I have no sound? it appears no sound driver installed and the xp driver does not work on windows 7. I have done some research and found that the audio device is the following:

ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device

does anyone know how I can get this device working in windows 7? I have searched for windows 7 drivers and vista drivers but have had no luck so far.

Thanks Dave

 

[marada]

I have now sorted the audio problem as I found a suitable driver on windows update. I now have everything working fine. The only problem is I just can't install a drive over 60gb. I know HP say 60gb is the largest drive the NC4000 takes, however if using windows xp I can use a 160GB drive fine. I even tried making an image of the 60GB and cloning it to a 160GB drive. I was then going to use partion software to resize the drive partitions, however it just will not boot if the drive is more than 60GB. Does anyone have any ideas?

 

[kennythesheep]

I'm using 100GB and without any problems. However, my VGA driver is not working in Win7, may I know where can I find a driver for my on-board dispaly? Thanks.

I have now sorted the audio problem as I found a suitable driver on windows update. I now have everything working fine. The only problem is I just can't install a drive over 60gb. I know HP say 60gb is the largest drive the NC4000 takes, however if using windows xp I can use a 160GB drive fine. I even tried making an image of the 60GB and cloning it to a 160GB drive. I was then going to use partion software to resize the drive partitions, however it just will not boot if the drive is more than 60GB. Does anyone have any ideas?

 

[Mousemonkey]

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