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    LG E500 series notebook,

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Skutz Ninja, Sep 3, 2008.

  1. Skutz Ninja

    Skutz Ninja Newbie

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    I quite disappointed, i just bought LG 500 notebook but had to change the Vista Software as my company is on XP, but now i feel the perfprmance has been tampered with, im not sure how, please help - does this type of note book come with a Hitachi hard drive disk?
     
    Skutz Ninja, Sep 3, 2008
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  2. Phil

    Phil Retired

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    You can see what hard drive you have in the device manager or BIOS.

    I am not sure if it will help you though. If you want to check your hard drive performance run HD Tune (free) and post a screenshot here.
     
    Phil, Sep 3, 2008
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  3. K-TRON

    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    How did you go about switching to XP?

    Did you format the harddrive and install XP, or did you make a partition and dual boot XP/Vista.

    Usually the performance will increase by going back to XP, because XP is more memory and cpu efficient.

    Did you install the appropriate drivers for your notebook for XP?

    Also to find the harddrive, you can go into the device manager and click properties on the disc tab.

    K-TRON
     
    K-TRON, Sep 4, 2008
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  4. adrian80

    adrian80 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi all
    I have the same laptop: LG E500.
    My question is if I can upgrade il a little bit: more RAM an a video card?
    Now I have 2GB RAM and no video card.

    Thanks in advance!
    Adi
     
    adrian80, Feb 27, 2009
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  5. adrian80

    adrian80 Notebook Enthusiast

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    nobody? :(
     
    adrian80, Jan 3, 2010
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  6. DEagleson

    DEagleson Gamer extraordinaire

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    Maybe the XP install lacks proper drivers, and currently runs with default ones?

    I think the LG E500 uses Nvidia hardware, so heres a download link.
     
    DEagleson, Jan 3, 2010
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  7. adrian80

    adrian80 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I installed Windows 7 on my LG E500, and everything is fine. :)
     
    adrian80, Mar 7, 2010
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