Installing XP on a vista machine

[TyLawrence]

I have Vista Home, and I was wondering I can Install XP Pro on the machine?

 

[Remeniz]

Installing XP on the machine is the easy bit.

You have to then obtain XP drivers for the chipset, audio, HD controllers, etc.

What machine do you have?

 

[TyLawrence]

I have a compaq

 

[David Lindon]

I have a compaq

Whats the model number? When did you buy it?

 

[TyLawrence]

Model SR5703WM. I bought In February or March of 09

 

[Remeniz]

Compaq Presario SR5703WM Desktop PC

Only has drivers for Vista and Windows 7. Here or here.

 

[TyLawrence]

so it looks like xp is out of the qustion

 

[Remeniz]

I guess so.

Without drivers for the Ethernet ports, chipset, etc the computers useless.

You having problems with Vista?

 

[TyLawrence]

Yeah its very slow, firefox always freezes, just tired of it

 

[Remeniz]

I have seen this information. Apparently it's the XP drivers for the Asus M2N68-LA motherboard thats in your tower.

Although you could service your computer. Spend a few hours cleaning inside the machine, de-fragging the drive/s, etc.