interesting - thanks for the thoughts!!

I knew I went with the cheap video card and I didn't even think about the HD. Oh well :)

Bought it from HP direct:

- Upgrade to Genuine Windows Vista Business (32-bit)
- Intel(R) Core(TM) Duo processor T2450 (2.0 GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 533MHz FSB)
- 14.1" WXGA High-Definition HP...

I bought a new pavillion -and love it and have no real problems with vista (**cough**yet) but I'm wondering what is making it boot so slowly? Any ideas? I disabled Norton and am running AVG.

:D

(I'm bumping this thread because I'm having the same problem)

this resolution did not work for me :(

Same thing - I reinstalled xp, heard the chime on 1 reboot - then all sound was lost.

any...

I usually go with that motto but I was having other problems with my router so I thought the upgrade would help.

GUESS NOT! :)

you hit the nail on the head. I rolled back the firmware and that fixed the problem. Linksys stresses me out :)

THANKS!

it does return the ip address but the request times out....

Hi. I happened upon this site from a google search where people were having similar problems to me - but none exact.

I hope you can help (and I hope I put this in the right forum).

Here's the...