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Moving Back to Windows XP

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  • 15-05-2010 9:33am
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    leedsfan88
    Registered Users Posts: 437 ✭✭


    Hey I'm currently running windows 7 on my HP laptop, but i want to return back to XP, but i having a little problem with the drivers.

    So i want to know if the windows 7 drivers will work on XP, because i went to the HP website and it only says there are three drivers for my model when i select the operating system XP, but there is like 16 for Windows 7.

    Any help would be great, i'm comfortable using a computer except when it comes to operating system installs.

    Also I have a HP G61 110SA

    Cheers in advance
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    PogMoThoin
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    Xp won't let You install windows 7 drivers, if the laptop originally shipped with Windows 7, I doubt they even released or even considered Xp drivers.

    Windows 7 has Xp mode, downgrading to Xp would be a huge step backwards
    http://lifehacker.com/5245396/set-up-and-use-xp-mode-in-windows-7


    Whats wrong with Windows 7 anyways??


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    leedsfan88
    Registered Users Posts: 437 ✭✭leedsfan88


    PogMoThoin wrote: »
    Xp won't let You install windows 7 drivers, if the laptop originally shipped with Windows 7, I doubt they even released or even considered Xp drivers.

    Windows 7 has Xp mode, downgrading to Xp would be a huge step backwards
    http://lifehacker.com/5245396/set-up-and-use-xp-mode-in-windows-7


    Whats wrong with Windows 7 anyways??


    7 crashes since January, like blue screens of death kinda thing


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    PogMoThoin
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    If thats a hardware problem, moving to Xp won't fix it, if its software a reinstall will


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    leedsfan88
    Registered Users Posts: 437 ✭✭leedsfan88


    PogMoThoin wrote: »
    If thats a hardware problem, moving to Xp won't fix it, if its software a reinstall will

    I've done a reinstall and still crashes


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    aidan_walsh
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    What are you doing when it crashes? Do you have any other devices attached? What software is installed?


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    PogMoThoin
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    You doing something intensive when it happens? Is the laptop getting hot? Check the processor temperature: http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/
    Check the memory for errors: http://www.memtest.org/


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    leedsfan88
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    aidan_walsh wrote: »
    What are you doing when it crashes? Do you have any other devices attached? What software is installed?

    Happens when I've been playing football manager twice and the other times there was nothing in common that i can remember. I'd had no devices attached either


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    leedsfan88
    Registered Users Posts: 437 ✭✭leedsfan88


    PogMoThoin wrote: »
    You doing something intensive when it happens? Is the laptop getting hot? Check the processor temperature: http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/
    Check the memory for errors: http://www.memtest.org/

    How do i get the second one to work???? I've tired to create a bootable disk on Magic ISo and it won't allow me to burn it to my disk


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    PogMoThoin
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    leedsfan88 wrote: »
    How do i get the second one to work???? I've tired to create a bootable disk on Magic ISo and it won't allow me to burn it to my disk

    Don't make a bootable iso, what You dl'ed should be a bootable iso, just burn it to disk as it is
    http://www.magiciso.com/tutorials/miso-burnwin.htm
    Once You get it burned change Your bios to boot from cd first and let it run for several hours

    With Coretemp, keep an eye on temperatures when You're running programs and report back here what its showing. You don't want the cores going over 60'. This stressing program will maximise cpu & ram use to give max heat.


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    Cryos
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    http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Operating-systems-and-software/Model-HP-G61-110SA-how-to-install-windows-XP/m-p/231591/highlight/true#M33738

    Also i agree with the guys, if there is a hardware problem it will follow you on all OS's


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    leedsfan88
    Registered Users Posts: 437 ✭✭leedsfan88


    Cheers guys I've set my laptop back to factory settings and no crashes yet everything is running better than before.

    I used the recovery partition, but I just have one question. I created recovery disks before I set up the factory setting reset.

    So do I need to create new ones since I reset the laptop???? Or will the original disks work ok???


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    SickBoy
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    The original disks will work.


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    Overheal
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    If youre getting Blue Screens you need to get the error code and it will almost always lead you to the fix.

    In vista I got several BSODs related to an 8086 error (processing error) the solution was to go to the driver site and get the Intel Matrix Storage Manager.

    9/10 times a BSOD is a driver issue.


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