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Compaq A940NR

A couple of months ago I picked up a Compaq A940NR.

While nowhere close to the build or quality of a Mac, for a budget Windows machine it is a great deal for the price with it’s Dual Core 1.8ghz Intel, 17 inch screen, 3 gigs of ram, 200gb hard drive, built in Webcam, 802.11a/b/g, 5 in 1 card reader and DVDR/CDR with Lightscribe.

Too bad you are stuck with Windows Vista out of the box.

When I first picked it up, I ran Windows Vista for about a week and by the end of day 4 wanted to rip my hair out. I did not need a Windows machine at the time (and figured I would just run Windows in VMWare for testing..) so I installed Gentoo Linux.

Gentoo had it’s time, but I now need another machine for running test builds again and VMWare is just not cutting it. The XP install is straight forward, just make sure that the first thing you do is disable Native SATA option in the bios. After that, all the drivers can be found at the links below.

Note: These may or may not work for your A900 model and their may be updates to the drivers. If in doubt, just check the HP/Compaq support site.

Enjoy,

French ;{)

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Drivers Installed & Order to install them…

Chipset driver

http://downloadmirror.intel.com/13499/a08/infinst_autol.exe

Microsoft Universal Audio Architecture driver

ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp33501-34000/sp33867.exe

Audio driver (after it fails>run devmgmt.msc>clk. Audio Device>have disk>sp34386.inf

ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp34001-34500/sp34386.exe

Modem driver (after it fails>run devmgmt.msc>clk. Modem Device>have disk>sp34777.inf

ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp34501-35000/sp34777.exe

Video driver

http://downloadmirror.intel.com/13301/a08/win2k_xp1429.zip

Ethernet

ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp32001-32500/sp32105.exe

Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Driver

ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp35001-35500/sp35426.exe

Broadcom Wireless driver

ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp34001-34500/sp34152.exe

Card Reader driver

ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp32501-33000/sp32825.exe

Touch Pad Driver

ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/softpaq/sp25501-26000/SP25796.exe

HP Quick Play

ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp34501-35000/sp34796.exe

Here is how you can add the Codeigniter documentation as a book to Coda.

1. Open Coda and select the books tab
2. From the books tab in the bottom left, press the + button
3. Open Safari and grab the Coda book cover for Codeigniter that the user veddermatic created here.
4. Copy the image to your desktop, then Drag it into the Cover Image box.
5. Put in the following information
   • Book Title: Code Igniter
   • Book Url: http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/
6. Click Add

If you would like to add a local book

Having the books on the net are nice because they are updated, but what do you do if you need to browse documentation when you are not connected to the internet? Well, plane and train trips are no longer an issue.

Download the latest copy of CodeIgniter, extract it, then copy the user_guide directory into your Documents folder.

Add this entry to your httpd.conf for Apache or MAMP.


Alias /user_guide "/Users/<your_username>/Documents/user_guide"

<Directory "/Users/<your_username>/Documents/user_guide">
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>


Now when you insert the “Book Url:” point it at your localhost.

http://localhost/user_guide

and it will bring up the userguide installed locally.

Your done, enjoy.

:{)