Some of us have proprietary software we use to generate wealth and would like to continue doing such rather than losing thousands of man hours to MS's latest cash cow. I've posted on NotebookForums exactly how to do this with the Asus FR5 and the Gateway MT3814 but there are a lot of other walk-throughs there as well.Īs for those questioning "why?", the answer is simple. The only prob I've seen was having to install in order the Microsoft UAA then the high def audio drivers followed by the modem drivers.Įuropean support sites were the first to have the XP drivers for most new books so that's where I still go for a lot of them. Change the SATA to an ata compatable setting or if your bios is that restrictive as to not afford you such snaggle an XP with the SATA drivers slipstreamed in already or roll your own. Its easy to do, worked the last 60 or so times I did it for my clients the last one being yesterday and only requires that you grab your hardware IDs from the device manager. I'd have one for the UBCD and one for my recommended security setup for each OS :) Post back with questions- I wish they'd set up some system where users can create their own tutorials. Good luck, and I hope you find it in your heart to forgive Vista and give it a chance at life :) Pop in your XP CD and let the proprietary/driver problems commence! (Also, I think that *might* void your warranty?) Once that's done, you have an empty computer with some BIOS. Its very useful to have on hand! Check it out.)) Since you already presumably have a windows XP CD on hand, you can easily create the disk.
If you have your heart set that much on downgrading, you'll need to reformat the C: drive- and other drives, too, would be a good idea-(using some third party- linux?- boot CD (the UBCD has Derek's Boot and Nuke which will do the job. Its a hungry OS, but if you feed it, it will treat you well. It has its problems (particularly, for some reason, on laptops) but so did XP when it came out, and 2000 when it came out, and so on. Vista is the future of Windows, like it or not. Now, if you're willing to hunt down every driver for every component- particularly anything proprietary- then you *can* downgrade.īut its not a very good idea. This is mainly because of drivers- I reinstalled a copy of windows XP on my machine (doing a repair install) and I was missing the drivers for my NIC cards! I couldn't access the internet! Older ones converting to linux and such is okay, and *maybe* an upgrade install, but other than that, its always the best course of action to stay with whichever OS shipped with the machine. Its a pretty bad idea to change the OS of any laptop, particularly those that are newer.
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