laptop OS Downgrade

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ctarry

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hi

I got a acer aspire 6930G laptop with vista. i really find vista crap

I want to downgrade to xp pro.

Is this recommended?
is it likely to cause hardware problems?

thanks
 
Ive done the same thing on my Lapop in siggy,Ive never been a fan of vista and it was removed the following day i had the laptop lol.

I do highly recommend downgrading to Xp,especialy if you dont have much ram in the laptop...for example 1gb.

I have 2gb in mine and,It was alot faster under xp that Vista.

What i did is went to my laptops website (asus) and checked that there was drivers for xp for audio,touchpad,wireless etc and thankfully there was so i say do the same first.
You could also consider windows 7 too though :)
 
OS changes, regardless of upgrading or downgrading can be a tedious and sometimes impossible task. From what I've researched it looks like your laptop does support XP and the drivers necessary can be found here: http://gd.panam.acer.com/home/ I'd make a backup of your entire system before attempting it. From other posts in this forum, I've heard that Windows 7 does a good job by locating and installing your drivers for you. Not sure if this laptop supports windows 7 though.

Anyway, would I recommend it? I hear Vista is terrible, and after all ME vs. 2000 Windows issues, I'd stick with XP until Windows 7 comes out for retail and maybe SP1, so yes, downgrade away. Hardware problems? Not if you download and install the drivers well.

Good luck. :D
 
i have looked on this site for the drivers, selecting the laptop, and choosing XP pro for OS, and nothing comes up, only for vista

I have contacted acer just to see
 
You will have to google search for the drivers for xp. The laptop does not support xp. Sometimes vista drivers will work for xp though, i've done it.

What I would do in your case is buy a cheap hard drive and install XP on it and see if you can find all drivers and get them installed correctly. Thats what I do when I'm asked to downgrade a system for somebody.
 
Concordedly said:
I selected the wrong laptop. Sorry.
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thank god. i thought my internet was being stupid again and not loading properly

anyway, i got a reply from acer:
"You'd be able to install your own copy of XP if you'd like, however we don't have XP drivers for your machine as it was never shipped with XP only Vista.

To install a copy of XP you'd need the SATA drivers for you board from the Intel website. These would need to be burnt on to CD and loaded at the beginning of the install by press F6, or using the nlite program, they can be integrated on to a new XP disc"

So am i right in thinking that once i find the drivers, burn them onto the xp disc, restart the comp so install can begin, and at the start press F6. does it load them automatically?

i have found this website with some drivers here.
Do i need all of them?

thanks
 
Your best bet is to do the procedure I described. That way you actually know what drivers you will need and you won't be doing any guesswork.
 
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