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 Member 7743 Level 11.38 May 2006 
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Your specs sound exactly like the HP m7248n model (my machine) with an upgraded video card. Did you upgrade the video card yourself from an X300 or was it included?
Anyway, HP doesn't ship out the media center OS discs, the closest thing you can do is go to the PC Help and Tools section in your start menu and make recovery discs (basically restores it to factory settings, including all the bloatware originally on it). I was having similar problems, my system certainly wasn't bogged down as you claim yours is -1 GB of RAM is more than enough to run all the processes- but I like to get all my money's worth out of the hardware, so I initially tried to install a different OS (XP Pro) to avoid having to deal with all the crappy programs and added features of media center I didn't need taking up resources. The problem is, after formatting the C: partition and installing a different OS than the built-in Media Center, the machine just wouldn't boot the new OS. I'm not sure if it had anything to do with HP's version of the BIOS or the D: partition (which, similar to the recovery disks, can be used to restore Media Center to the way HP originally had it). Fortunately I had the recovery disks (you can also use the recovery partition, which I just mentioned), to revert back to HP's version of Media Center. Basically, all you can do (if in fact you have an m7248n or a similar model) is go to Add/Remove programs and uninstall 95% of the preinstalled software. Most of which doesn't completely eradicate itself and leaves a mess in the registry...which you can't do much about other than manually deleting all the useless folders in Program Files pertaining to the uninstalled software and running a registry cleaner. Honestly though, there is no way in hell your system should be "crap" due to Media Center by itself or any of HP's preinstalled crap (I recommend uninstalling the crap just to clean up the machine/get the 98% out of your hardware). It would help if you mentioned what the problem with your computer actually is. On an aside note: If, in fact, you *do* find a way to install a different OS on the harddrive, I would love to be informed, but I have done quite a bit of research on the subject and haven't had any luck with it. Jam it back in, in the dark.
Last edited by Antignition; Dec 24, 2006 at 01:49 AM.
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