"SANTANDER" <santander@microsoft.news> wrote in message
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> "V Green" <vanceg@nowhere.net> wrote in message
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>> "Terry R." <F1ComNOSPAM@pobox.com> wrote in message
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>>> The date and time was 2/7/2008 6:12 AM, and on a whim, SANTANDER pounded
>>> out on the keyboard:
>>>
>>> > Got Asus notebook X51RL with DOS OS. Unfortunately, this notebook has
>>> > Vista
>>> > drivers installed, not for Windows XP.
>>> > I want install Windows XP. Which exactly drivers I need? Should I
>>> > reformat
>>> > harddrive, before installing drivers, or I can deinstall Vista
>>> > drivers?
>>> > There is very weak support from notebook manufacturer side. Instead
>>> > of
>>> > starting working immediatally, I need spend time and effort s for
>>> > searching
>>> > drivers, etc, etc
>>> > Vista is useless for me, bad micro$oft software & bad approach.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks
>>> >
>>>
>>> You don't have DOS for an OS, that's for sure. You need to contact the
>>> manufacturer to see if there are drivers for the specific hardware on
>>> the laptop BEFORE doing anything else. Also check to see if using a
>>> different OS will void your warranty. If so, you could create an image
>>> of your current drive on an external drive and keep it safe in case you
>>> need warranty work done.
>>>
>>> The laptop should function properly. If not, why waste your time and
>>> money? Take the time and let the manufacturer get it right. You paid
>>> for it to work correctly.
>>
>> True, and the HARDWARE probably does function properly, problem
>> is it's being crippled by a crappy OS (Vista).
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Terry R.
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>
> I've sent a question to ASUS Technical Support, but have not received any
> responce. In general, this is Asus Technical Support task to provide end
> users with a clear instruction how to install windows XP and how to set
> appropriate drivers for XP.
Unless there are XP drivers for the hardware on your machine, the clear
instruction would be
"you can't". If there are, you would install XP from the CD, then install
the XP drivers, then
install all of the XP updates, and then install all of your programs. A
clean install of XP will wipe out
all of Vista; thus you are doing a bare metal install.

It might be easier just to learn how to use Vista.... It is yet another
version of Windows NT.

Jim