What If?

[Guest bigpoppa1978]

I have a desktop that has Vista installed on it. I want to switch to

XP, but my computer dosen't have any windows drivers. How or can I

even install XP? It's an E_Machine. I checked online and the company

doesn't even have Drivers for XP....Any ideas???Thanks.....

 

 

 

 

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bigpoppa1978

[Guest Alias]

Re: What If?

 

bigpoppa1978 wrote:

> I have a desktop that has Vista installed on it. I want to switch to

> XP, but my computer dosen't have any windows drivers. How or can I

> even install XP? It's an E_Machine. I checked online and the company

> doesn't even have Drivers for XP....Any ideas???Thanks.....

 

You are stuck with Vista unless you want to install Ubuntu,

http://www.ubuntu.com which will have the drivers for your machine. Either that

or take the machine back and insist on one with XP. Do it when the store

is full of people and say it in a loud, but polite voice.

 

Alias

[Guest JS]

Re: What If?

 

You can try Belarc Advisor: http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

It does a good job of providing a wealth of information about your PC,

including most if not all the information you need for identifying the

components and the drivers you will need.

 

You will need to identify each component that makes up your system.

Like the motherboard manufacturer (assuming it's not a custom board built

and supported only by E Machines), your Video card or onboard video chip,

Sound card/chip, Network card/chip and so forth. For each of these you will

need to go to the motherboard, video, sound, network, etc manufacture's web

site and see if a Windows XP driver is available.

 

Also I would make an Image backup of your PC (along with a bootable recovery

CD for use with the image backup software)with Vista installed just in case

Windows XP simply will not run despite all the effort you have put in.

 

As an alternative to that image backup, if you have a spare hard drive, then

remove the drive that has Vista installed on it and use the spare drive to

install XP. If it doesn't work just put the Vista drive back into the PC.

 

JS

 

 

"bigpoppa1978" <bigpoppa1978.2b403d9@pcbanter.net> wrote in message

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>

> I have a desktop that has Vista installed on it. I want to switch to

> XP, but my computer dosen't have any windows drivers. How or can I

> even install XP? It's an E_Machine. I checked online and the company

> doesn't even have Drivers for XP....Any ideas???Thanks.....

>

>

>

>

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> bigpoppa1978

[Guest RJK]

Re: What If?

 

Why not use Vista ? Which version Vista ?

i.e. We'll all end up with Vista eventually, ....pretty much like all those,

(including me), that tried to"stay with" W98 ended up having to move to XP

for various reasons, including hardware evolution !!!

(...I haven't got Vista on any of my machines yet btw), ...and I have to say

that, on the Vista machines I've worked on, it all looks very much like XP

but, made much harder to do simple things in, ...like trying to drop a new

hosts file into Vista, ...one had to fight with "Permissions" etc.

....ridiculous !!!

 

Identify motherboard make and model, graphics and sound chips make and model

i.e. onboard or PCI / PCI-e card etc. ...and visit manufacturers websites

to collect XP drivers, ...if available.

....not forgetting that the XP drivers library supports a large amount of

hardware, ...if somewhat slightly older !!

 

In other words, in my humble opinion, the time spent fighting to replace

Vista with XP, would be better spent grinding through the learning curve

with Vista !!

 

....unless of course application software compatibility is your issue !

 

regards, Richard

 

 

"bigpoppa1978" <bigpoppa1978.2b403d9@pcbanter.net> wrote in message

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>

> I have a desktop that has Vista installed on it. I want to switch to

> XP, but my computer dosen't have any windows drivers. How or can I

> even install XP? It's an E_Machine. I checked online and the company

> doesn't even have Drivers for XP....Any ideas???Thanks.....

>

>

>

>

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> bigpoppa1978

[Guest AJR]

Re: What If?

 

To install XP requires having the XP installation CD>

 

Note: "...but my computer dosen't have any windows drivers...." this is not

an issue. Boot from XP CD - select disk format - install XP - keep in mind

taht programs will have to be reinstalled - Vista data lost unless backed

up.

 

"bigpoppa1978" <bigpoppa1978.2b403d9@pcbanter.net> wrote in message

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>

> I have a desktop that has Vista installed on it. I want to switch to

> XP, but my computer dosen't have any windows drivers. How or can I

> even install XP? It's an E_Machine. I checked online and the company

> doesn't even have Drivers for XP....Any ideas???Thanks.....

>

>

>

>

> --

> bigpoppa1978

[Guest p]

Re: What If?

 

RJK wrote:

> Why not use Vista ? Which version Vista ?

> i.e. We'll all end up with Vista eventually, ....

 

Many will continue to use XP and/or Linux. Others will skip Vista and

wait for Windows 7, especially businesses.

 

P

[Guest HeyBub]

Re: What If?

 

AJR wrote:

> To install XP requires having the XP installation CD>

>

> Note: "...but my computer dosen't have any windows drivers...." this

> is not an issue. Boot from XP CD - select disk format - install XP -

> keep in mind taht programs will have to be reinstalled - Vista data

> lost unless backed up.

>

 

It certainly IS an issue.

 

If the OS has no method of talking to the hardware (this method is called a

"driver"), the combination simply will not work.

 

Some incompatibilities can be overcome. If, for example, there are no XP

drivers for the built in video, sound, network, or other functions, these

functions might be able to be overcome with replacement hardware (a new

video card, for example).

[Guest Kelly]

Re: What If?

 

Hi,

 

Other than XP finding most of your drivers, Belarc will provide you with

enough information to obtain the rest - especially video and audio. The

transition is fairly painless. :o)

 

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"bigpoppa1978" <bigpoppa1978.2b403d9@pcbanter.net> wrote in message

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>

> I have a desktop that has Vista installed on it. I want to switch to

> XP, but my computer dosen't have any windows drivers. How or can I

> even install XP? It's an E_Machine. I checked online and the company

> doesn't even have Drivers for XP....Any ideas???Thanks.....

>

>

>

>

> --

> bigpoppa1978

[Guest GHalleck]

Re: What If?

 

 

Kelly wrote:

> Hi,

>

> Other than XP finding most of your drivers, Belarc will provide you with

> enough information to obtain the rest - especially video and audio. The

> transition is fairly painless. :o)

>

 

Just how "generic" is an E-Machines computer today? Most of the time,

this tact would work with computers being asembled with off-the-shelf

components.

[Guest AJR]

Re: What If?

 

Note frrom the original post "...I want to switch to

XP, but my computer dosen't have any windows drivers. How or can I even

install XP?..."

 

bigpoppa1978 is not referring to drivers for installed hardware etc.. (My

opinion) - again note "...How or can I even install XP?..." he is using

"windows drivers"

in refernce to XP installation (Again - my take).

 

 

 

"bigpoppa1978" <bigpoppa1978.2b403d9@pcbanter.net> wrote in message

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>

> I have a desktop that has Vista installed on it. I want to switch to

> XP, but my computer dosen't have any windows drivers. How or can I

> even install XP? It's an E_Machine. I checked online and the company

> doesn't even have Drivers for XP....Any ideas???Thanks.....

>

>

>

>

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> bigpoppa1978

[Guest db.·.. >]

Re: What If?

 

if the e machine came

preinstalled with windows

xp, then you likely have a

factory restoration feature.

 

btw: belarc has nothing

to provide that is relevant

for installing operating

systems.

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"bigpoppa1978" <bigpoppa1978.2b403d9@pcbanter.net> wrote in message

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>

> I have a desktop that has Vista installed on it. I want to switch to

> XP, but my computer dosen't have any windows drivers. How or can I

> even install XP? It's an E_Machine. I checked online and the company

> doesn't even have Drivers for XP....Any ideas???Thanks.....

>

>

>

>

> --

> bigpoppa1978

[Guest Big_Al]

Re: What If?

 

p wrote:

> RJK wrote:

>> Why not use Vista ? Which version Vista ?

>> i.e. We'll all end up with Vista eventually, ....

>

> Many will continue to use XP and/or Linux. Others will skip Vista and

> wait for Windows 7, especially businesses.

>

> P

 

From the sounds of it, some may skip windows 7 too. :-)