OS Swap help.

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Jimrob25

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Here is the deal, I'm not sure this is the righ section for this, but I figured it would be the best shot at a sensible response. I recently bought an HP a6109n tower from a local retailer, and it came with Windows Vista on it. After researching the manufactors site, it never listed any XP drivers. However, I don't care for vista on my rig because I am infact, a gamer. Most of the application I run have a hard time running with Vista and I was looking into going a OS swap back to XP pro SP2.

Now, I have a few questions actually. I have been researching and found some model numbers that I'm sure I can find xpdrivers for. What would I do to certain programs I have in vista that came on the PC. (Sonic, CD/DVD burner.) I'm assuming that I would have to purchase that software and reinstall it on my system. Anyone who has done this, please hit me up with some advice.


Future Projects - I plan to remove the asus motherboard and AMD processor in the tower currently, and drop in the Intel DG33TL motherboard with the Q6700 Quad processor. =]

- Thanks all in advance
 
Just check your motherboard model and their web site for their drivers. Same for sound and video.

Switching the OS depends on whether your XP was an OEM version or XP. I would suggest that if you are having problems with this, you may want to hold off on upgrading anything until you learn the ins and outs of your new system.

Also, Vista is not that bad for gaming depending on your system. I am currently triple booting Linux / XP Pro / Vista Business x64, and am switching to Vista out of preference.

List your specs on this new system.
 
I got the specs listed in my sig, it just started showing up.

I got a 3800+ x2, Asus mobo, 2 gigs of ram and a 6250se vid card.

Im going to upgrade soon to a larger powersupply, 8600gt, intel dg33tl mobo and the q6700 proc.
 
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