First, the technician installed Windows XP Proffesional SP2, every thing run well for a while after install, the problem rising when we reboot the laptop,the booting times are takes long time, it's 5minutes long!! After entering the windows environment, the DVD Drive is not detected by th OS. I started to troubleshoot my laptop by scanning all the drive from viruses, make sure the batteries is fully charged, make sure there is no external card plugged, and there is still booting problem in my laptop. Then I brought it to the technician where I bought the laptop and the technician says "this kind of laptop is not supported by XP" and then sugested to iinstall Vista instead, after Vista installed, everything is normal but i don't likes Vista :(
Then I started googling, what a suprised lot of peoples installed XP on CQ40 successfully. The hopes rise again :), I started to try various version of Windows XP, SP1, SP2, SP3, Black Edition, Etc. I decided to install SP3 of XP on my machine, then looking for the driver mannualy, I looking for driver from pcidatabase.com by looking for the device id of my machine by clicking 'manage' when right click on 'my computer' then choose 'device manager', then looking for the device id (one by one :( ) by right click on yellow device name then click 'properties', choose tab 'detail' then select 'Hardware Ids' on combo boxes, in 'values' boxes will shown the device and vendor id. And now everything works fine :), if you had a similar problem, just sen me mail on naklegian[at]gmail[dot]com I'll glad to help. Read More.. Made's Blog: 12/2009
