PohTayToez

Here is the situation:
My boss got an HP s7727c PC a while back for the restaurant I work at... mainly it's used for creating and printing menus and other such items with Office 2007. Recently, she has had a problem where she will come back to the computer, and a file that she has opened and printed many times before in the same way will be a '.docx' (which should still be readable by office) instead of a '.doc' file, and when attempting to open it, it will provide an error message, suggesting that the file is corrupt or inaccessible, and to use the text recovery. Opening with text recovery provides no results, and the only way we are able to save the file is by opening it with Word Pad, but the formating and images are lost.

This, combined with other Vista related frustrations, brought her to ask me to downgrade it back down to Windows XP. I installed Windows XP Pro SP2 on the computer for her, but then ran into another problem. The computer was built to only run Vista, therefore there are no XP chipset drivers available on the website... so I cannot use the onboard NIC to connect to our network (the biggest problem), the graphical power sucks because I have no onboard graphics drivers, and the sound will not work as well.

The board is an ASUS A8N-BR, which must have been made just for HP, as there are no drivers on ASUS's site either.

The only thing I can think of to do is to get a cheap $50 microATX motherboard to replace it with, which seems like a waste as the other board functions just fine.

Any comments/suggestions?