This laptop came from my girlfriends mom. She was having problems with it and she took it to a shop. The shop told her a virus had corrupted the motherboard and it would need a new one. Before she told us anything about this she bought a new laptop similar to this one. I assume she probably gets them at Best Buy. I'm not sure why she doesn't do some research or ask for my help. I'm sure the shop she went to was just trying to sell her stuff she didn't need.
She gave us this laptop, I started it up at home and was given an error message. This was a while ago and I don't have the message or laptop in front of me but I remember at the time I googled it and found that the solution is to reload the operating system. I assume it came with a Vista disk but I also assume I shouldn't bother with Vista?
So what I was thinking is getting Windows Home 64 to load onto it.
Should I double the ram?
Anything I may not be thinking of? I've never used AMD it's been a while since I've done any kind of upgrades.
It's mostly going to be used for email, internet, music and movies. May use "Play On" to stream movies/hulu to our tv as well. I'm sure it will get whatever version of photoshop would run ok on it.
My desktop PC is very old. Think I am still using a P4 in it when I put it together many years ago. It's probably going to get replaced this spring with a sandy bridge build but if this laptop works out well enough that might get delayed. Other than music listening and photoshop I don't do much on my home computer anymore.
Thanks for the advice!
Specs on the laptop from a google search:
HP Pavilion Notebook dv6704nr / 15.4" WXGA High-Definition* BrightView Widescreen/ Dual-Core Mobile TK-57/ 2048M/160GB/ Lightscribe DVD+/-RW / Vista Home Premium
FeaturesProduct Name dv6704nr
Product Number KC305UA#ABA
Microprocessor 1.9 GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core Mobile Technology TK-57
Microprocessor Cache 512 KB L2 Cache
Memory 2048 MB (2 x 1024 MB)
Memory Max Up to 4 GB
Video Graphics NVIDIA GeForce Go 7150M
Video Memory Up to 799 MB
Hard Drive 160 GB (5400 rpm)
Multimedia Drive LightScribe Super Multi 8X DVD±R/RW with Double Layer Support
Display 15.4" WXGA High-Definition* BrightView Widescreen (1280 x 800)
Fax/Modem High speed 56K modem
Network Card Integrated 10/100BASE-T Ethernet LAN
Wireless Connectivity 802.11b/g WLAN
Sound Altec Lansing speakers
Keyboard 101-key compatible & 2 Quick Launch Buttons
Pointing Device Touch Pad with On/Off button and dedicated vertical scroll Up/Down pad
PC Card Slots One ExpressCard/54 slot (also supports ExpressCard/34)
External Ports 5-in-1 integrated Digital Media Reader for Secure Digital cards, MultiMedia cards, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, or xD Picture cards
3 Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0
2 Headphone out
1 microphone-in
1 VGA (15-pin)
1 TV-Out (S-video)
1 RJ-11 (modem)
1 RJ -45 (LAN)
1 notebook expansion port 3
1 IEEE 1394 Firewire (4-pin)
She gave us this laptop, I started it up at home and was given an error message. This was a while ago and I don't have the message or laptop in front of me but I remember at the time I googled it and found that the solution is to reload the operating system. I assume it came with a Vista disk but I also assume I shouldn't bother with Vista?
So what I was thinking is getting Windows Home 64 to load onto it.
Should I double the ram?
Anything I may not be thinking of? I've never used AMD it's been a while since I've done any kind of upgrades.
It's mostly going to be used for email, internet, music and movies. May use "Play On" to stream movies/hulu to our tv as well. I'm sure it will get whatever version of photoshop would run ok on it.
My desktop PC is very old. Think I am still using a P4 in it when I put it together many years ago. It's probably going to get replaced this spring with a sandy bridge build but if this laptop works out well enough that might get delayed. Other than music listening and photoshop I don't do much on my home computer anymore.
Thanks for the advice!
Specs on the laptop from a google search:
HP Pavilion Notebook dv6704nr / 15.4" WXGA High-Definition* BrightView Widescreen/ Dual-Core Mobile TK-57/ 2048M/160GB/ Lightscribe DVD+/-RW / Vista Home Premium
FeaturesProduct Name dv6704nr
Product Number KC305UA#ABA
Microprocessor 1.9 GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core Mobile Technology TK-57
Microprocessor Cache 512 KB L2 Cache
Memory 2048 MB (2 x 1024 MB)
Memory Max Up to 4 GB
Video Graphics NVIDIA GeForce Go 7150M
Video Memory Up to 799 MB
Hard Drive 160 GB (5400 rpm)
Multimedia Drive LightScribe Super Multi 8X DVD±R/RW with Double Layer Support
Display 15.4" WXGA High-Definition* BrightView Widescreen (1280 x 800)
Fax/Modem High speed 56K modem
Network Card Integrated 10/100BASE-T Ethernet LAN
Wireless Connectivity 802.11b/g WLAN
Sound Altec Lansing speakers
Keyboard 101-key compatible & 2 Quick Launch Buttons
Pointing Device Touch Pad with On/Off button and dedicated vertical scroll Up/Down pad
PC Card Slots One ExpressCard/54 slot (also supports ExpressCard/34)
External Ports 5-in-1 integrated Digital Media Reader for Secure Digital cards, MultiMedia cards, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, or xD Picture cards
3 Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0
2 Headphone out
1 microphone-in
1 VGA (15-pin)
1 TV-Out (S-video)
1 RJ-11 (modem)
1 RJ -45 (LAN)
1 notebook expansion port 3
1 IEEE 1394 Firewire (4-pin)