HELP!!! ok, heres the deal, i had vista, i now have xp......

amberkalvin · 08-19-2007, 09:01 AM

alright, lol i know i'm an idiot for reformatting like 2 times this month, well i figured the first one wasnt such a good install b/c of some stuff i was doing trying out and what not, well heres the deal, i downlaoded sound drivers for xp for the hardware that i had the drivers for in vista b/c obviously they aren't compatible or whatever. well after the format, i went to install the drivers, now the drivers i downloaded for my "realtek HD audio" hardware won't work this time, although they did last time, my question to you all is this, where can i downlaod the xp drivers for my vista machine?

specs:
Compaq Presario SR2170NX
3Ghz Intel pentium 4
2GB ram (i upgraded 1GB)

and i know go to the hp website or whatever, but they never put xp on this machine, only vista, so therefore i can't download from them b/c it won't work......

Thanx in advance, hey if i'm being an idiot and theres a better way to do this, please let me know......

dai · 08-19-2007, 01:42 PM

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/SOU...ver-R163.shtml

08-19-2007, 09:01 AM	#1 (permalink)
amberkalvin Registered User Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 29 OS: XP SP2	HELP!!! ok, heres the deal, i had vista, i now have xp...... alright, lol i know i'm an idiot for reformatting like 2 times this month, well i figured the first one wasnt such a good install b/c of some stuff i was doing trying out and what not, well heres the deal, i downlaoded sound drivers for xp for the hardware that i had the drivers for in vista b/c obviously they aren't compatible or whatever. well after the format, i went to install the drivers, now the drivers i downloaded for my "realtek HD audio" hardware won't work this time, although they did last time, my question to you all is this, where can i downlaod the xp drivers for my vista machine? specs: Compaq Presario SR2170NX 3Ghz Intel pentium 4 2GB ram (i upgraded 1GB) and i know go to the hp website or whatever, but they never put xp on this machine, only vista, so therefore i can't download from them b/c it won't work...... Thanx in advance, hey if i'm being an idiot and theres a better way to do this, please let me know......

08-19-2007, 01:42 PM	#2 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 56,732 OS: win 7 32x 64x rtm	Re: HELP!!! ok, heres the deal, i had vista, i now have xp...... http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/SOU...ver-R163.shtml __________________