"Jim" <j.n@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> "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$oft software & bad approach.
>>>> >
>>>> > Thanks
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>> You don't have DOS for an OS, that's for sure. You need to contact the
>>>> manufacturer to see if there are drivers for the specific hardware on
>>>> the laptop BEFORE doing anything else. Also check to see if using a
>>>> different OS will void your warranty. If so, you could create an image
>>>> of your current drive on an external drive and keep it safe in case you
>>>> need warranty work done.
>>>>
>>>> The laptop should function properly. If not, why waste your time and
>>>> money? Take the time and let the manufacturer get it right. You paid
>>>> for it to work correctly.
>>>
>>> True, and the HARDWARE probably does function properly, problem
>>> is it's being crippled by a crappy OS (Vista).
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Terry R.
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>>
>> I've sent a question to ASUS Technical Support, but have not received any
>> responce. In general, this is Asus Technical Support task to provide end
>> users with a clear instruction how to install windows XP and how to set
>> appropriate drivers for XP.
> Unless there are XP drivers for the hardware on your machine, the clear
> instruction would be
> "you can't". If there are, you would install XP from the CD, then install
> the XP drivers, then
> install all of the XP updates, and then install all of your programs. A
> clean install of XP will wipe out
> all of Vista; thus you are doing a bare metal install.
>
> It might be easier just to learn how to use Vista.... It is yet another
> version of Windows NT.
>
> Jim
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is that case this is pure discrimination of non-Vista users.
Vista uses much more system resources than Windows XP, more notebook power.
Why?
Advanced technologies must SAVE resources and Electric Power Consumption,
instead of increasing electric power consumption.
I absolutely no need all this Vista "bells and whistles" which is mainly m$
advertising, since XP can do all job that I need, and I am not willing to
pay micro$oft for it unthinking policy.

Regards,