SR5601P Operating System Change from Vista to XP?

[chaat2000]

If I remove Windows Vista Home Basic and install Windows XP, are there software drivers for the existing hardware video, sound & etc?

[CherylG]

Nvidia Chipset:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_winxp_15.24.html

Nvidia Graphics:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_178.24_whql.html

Realtek HD Audio:

ftp://61.56.69.18/pc/audio/WDM_R204.exe

Realtek 8201N Ethernet:

http://download.biostar.com.tw/upload/Driver//Chipset/NVIDIA/A_UDA/15.18/Ethernet_XP32.exe

[Chandu]

Hi,

     As the system hardware has been tailor made for vista hence Hp does not receommend changing the Operating system however if you require it for your convenience then you could download the required drivers in the following links below:

Video:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_178.24_whql.html

Audio:

http://www.realtek.com/downloads/downloadsCheck.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=14&PFid=24&Level=4&Conn=3&DownTyp...

Onboard LAN, SATAIDE Driver (v10.3.0.42) WHQL ,SATARAID Driver (v10.3.0.42) WHQL ,SMU Driver (v1.61) WHQL SMBus Driver (v4.69) WHQL ,Away Mode Driver (v6.0.6000.107) WHQL

http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_winxp_15.24.html

Hope this helps...

[chaat2000]

CherylG,

Thankyou!

[chaat2000]

Chandu,

Thyankyou!

[zimm]

I wonder how you know what HP recomends.  I have found HP to only be an Indian on the phone that is usually wrong.

[CherylG]

I do not ask HP what they recommend--since they do not support XP downgrades and as you know,most of the phone support people only guess.

I make driver suggestions by looking up hardware specs on a machine and go straight to source such as Nvidia and Realtek who do support XP.

[zortharg]

All of these comments are useless. Both the "nforce" and "geforce" drivers make the icons big (like classic safe mode) and horizontal lines across the screen like a badly deinterlaced video, and when I have everything else on this page installed, it still leaves 3 unrecognized devices in device manager unrecognized - 1. Video Controller (VGA Compatible) - 2. PCI Simple Communications Controller - 3. Unknown Device, and when I for instance try to run Doom 2, it only produces a pop-up error message that says "error    Failed to initialize video: No available video device", when I try it with Doom (which runs just fine on my 2003 windows XP computer, so it is not windows XP), it runs but produces this little off-color thing that looks kind of like a negative of what it should be (but it isn't - I captured the screen and inverted colors in paint) in the upper left corner of the screen, and in the "shut down" option in the start menu, where it gives you the choice between Stand By, Turn Off, and Restart, the leftmost button, "Stand By", is grayed out. Something needs to be done to it and it isn't the Nforce or Geforce things!

Also, maybe whoever answers also knows, but the files and settings transfer wizard is not transferring everything it should be (from my 2003 XP computer to the cruddy vista computer which I'm reincarnating as an XP computer - and I mean it's vista that's cruddy, not the computer). I have now a whole bunch of programs that just produce errors, or crash the whole computer, or insist they be registered when I try to run them. Obviously it doesn't transfer what it should automatically, and I even told it to include everything in program files (is it something in the registry? If it doesn't transfer the programs and it doesn't transfer the registry then that's kind of like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich hold the bread, peanut butter and jelly and plate it's served on - it does nothing then!) Is there some trick to getting files and settings transfer wizard to do what it rightfully should? Some of the original install CDs for my software have gone bad over the years and produce cycle redundancy errors when I try to read them, so I can't reinstall the programs the normal way!