I have a brand new HP Pavillion Media Center PC that came with Vista home
premium. If I Replace Vista with XP will I still be able to use the features
of my pc?
( watch, record and pause live tv and HP personal media drive as well as the
other standard features ).

bryboyd wrote:[color=blue]
> I have a brand new HP Pavillion Media Center PC that came with Vista
> home premium. If I Replace Vista with XP will I still be able to use
> the features of my pc?
> ( watch, record and pause live tv and HP personal media drive as well
> as the other standard features ).[/color]
Assuming you have or can find XP drivers for all of the devices included
with the new PC, you'd still need XP Media Center Edition to handle all the
features you currently have and the Media Center version of XP is not sold
at retail though, I'm sure there are retailers that do sell it. Whether or
not you'd have an easy time installing it is another question altogether.

Even though your devices are compatible with Vista's Media Center Component,
that doesn't mean XP Media Center Edition will recognize all your devices as
compatible with it even if you are able to find XP drivers for the devices
and that's critical to getting everything to work in Media Center.

--
Michael Solomon

Thank you for your help. Its just that i'm not too happy with Vista. I tried
an older game with it ( Morrowwind ) and it keeps crashing. The curser jumps
around on web pages. When I started it this morning I got a message that my
D" drive ( recovery ) was full and needed to have room made on it. I dont
know how it got filled up. In windows media center, if I play a wave or mp3
file set to repeat, after a few minutes it becomes choppy or sounds as if
there is a lot of static.
I wont be installing Xp. Thanks again.

bryboyd

"Michael Solomon" wrote:
[color=blue]
> bryboyd wrote:[color=green]
> > I have a brand new HP Pavillion Media Center PC that came with Vista
> > home premium. If I Replace Vista with XP will I still be able to use
> > the features of my pc?
> > ( watch, record and pause live tv and HP personal media drive as well
> > as the other standard features ).[/color]
> Assuming you have or can find XP drivers for all of the devices included
> with the new PC, you'd still need XP Media Center Edition to handle all the
> features you currently have and the Media Center version of XP is not sold
> at retail though, I'm sure there are retailers that do sell it. Whether or
> not you'd have an easy time installing it is another question altogether.
>
> Even though your devices are compatible with Vista's Media Center Component,
> that doesn't mean XP Media Center Edition will recognize all your devices as
> compatible with it even if you are able to find XP drivers for the devices
> and that's critical to getting everything to work in Media Center.
>
> --
> Michael Solomon
>
>
>[/color]

bryboyd wrote:[color=blue]
> Thank you for your help. Its just that i'm not too happy with Vista.
> I tried an older game with it ( Morrowwind ) and it keeps crashing.
> The curser jumps around on web pages. When I started it this morning
> I got a message that my D" drive ( recovery ) was full and needed to
> have room made on it. I dont know how it got filled up. In windows
> media center, if I play a wave or mp3 file set to repeat, after a few
> minutes it becomes choppy or sounds as if there is a lot of static.
> I wont be installing Xp. Thanks again.
>
> bryboyd
>
> "Michael Solomon" wrote:
>[/color]
You're welcome.

There's a a lot of problems with graphics cards right now, even for those
cards for which there are non-beta drivers available. Have you checked for
updated drivers for your soundcard with card manufacturer? Also, some
drivers being released right now for soundcards and grphics cards are only
basic driver, supporting basic functions until the manufacturer's are able
to release fully featured and, I hope, more stable, drivers for their
hardware.
--
Michael Solomon