[TechAssist] Re: recovery disk for pavilion 6630

  • From: Jorge Camboni <geo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 14:47:07 -0600

I am almost sure it will, and PC133 may be a little cheaper than PC100.
The more RAM you can use, the better.
regards
Jorge

At 05:01 p.m. 10/03/2004 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi Jorge-Today I loaded XP on the 6630 and it had ALL of the system 
>drivers.WOW !It's slow so I will try 128 mb of PC100.Will this computer 
>accept  133 MHz ram ? Regards,Pete
>Jorge Camboni <geo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hi again, Peter.
>I have just installed XP on a 330mhz PII and it runs great.
>I believe that machine comes with only 64MB ram, which is not enough
>even for W98.... You should add at least 128MB, better 256MB (PC100 or PC133).
>If you do not want to install XP you can use W98SE but you will have to
>download
>all the drivers for the 6630 from the HP site. Sometimes those modems'firmware
>don't put up very well with XP... but nowadays you can buy a pctel based modem
>for as low as 10 bucks... you can buy 256MB pc133 at zipzoomfly.com for as low
>as 70 bucks..
>That's what I should do, but it if you get the original CD and decide to
>restore the
>former system, increasing RAM amount a little be won't do any harm..
>you have a great day
>Jorge
>
>At 01:52 p.m. 09/03/2004 -0800, you wrote:
> >Thanks for the assist Jorge.Will XP run on this machine? maybe upgrade
> >memory? If I can be of any help,I've been a board level tech for 40
> >Yrs.Regards,Peter
> >Jorge Camboni wrote:Hi Pete, in a casual search for
> >info and utilities for the Pavillion 6630 I
> >found
> >this page:
> >
> >http://www.computergripes.com/HP.Pavilion.6630.html
> >
> >It might be useful to you.
> >Most of the times, recover CDs are 101% worthless...
> >Maybe a fresh XP install - ntfs format can do much better..
> >good luck
> >Jorge
> >
> >At 09:54 p.m. 08/03/2004 -0800, you wrote:
> > >need Pavilion 6630 recovery disk to reinstall system onboard
> > >utilities.Have stuff to 
> trade..................................Regards,Pete
> > >
> > >Neal Electronics 1901 E Wm. Cannon,Austin,Tx Suite A295 tel.5126635051
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