Similar to this, though not "as bad", my g/f's HP laptop will not let you install drivers even from the video card manufacturer (ATI). I was confused as hell, as I am used to updating my video card drivers, that when I tried to update hers due to random crashing in a game she was playing (Sims 2) that the installer would fail every time I ran it to update the drivers, even the omega drivers failed.
So I got to reading some forums as usual when I run into a problem of this sort and found out that the HP would only let you install the drivers that you downloaded from their site (horseshit drivers of course, even worse than ATI's)
I found this rather inconvenient at the least, and I am sure there is a way to 'trick' the PC into letting me install new drivers (ps, if anyone knows how to install them w/o reformatting let me know, or even if a reformat and fresh install would correct it)
I have recently found a program called Virtuosa http://www.virtuosa.com/ it converts from the crappy WMA form the MP3 AND removes DRM and all that copyright stuff. It also converts fairly quickly.
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Similar to this, though not "as bad", my g/f's HP laptop will not let you install drivers even from the video card manufacturer (ATI). I was confused as hell, as I am used to updating my video card drivers, that when I tried to update hers due to random crashing in a game she was playing (Sims 2) that the installer would fail every time I ran it to update the drivers, even the omega drivers failed.
So I got to reading some forums as usual when I run into a problem of this sort and found out that the HP would only let you install the drivers that you downloaded from their site (horseshit drivers of course, even worse than ATI's)
I found this rather inconvenient at the least, and I am sure there is a way to 'trick' the PC into letting me install new drivers (ps, if anyone knows how to install them w/o reformatting let me know, or even if a reformat and fresh install would correct it)
I have recently found a program called Virtuosa http://www.virtuosa.com/ it converts from the crappy WMA form the MP3 AND removes DRM and all that copyright stuff. It also converts fairly quickly.