hp downgrade vista xp

ericx5

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Hello. I recently purchased a new HDD due to an old one having issues. My desktop is an HP a6620f and came with the vista x64 OS. After installing the new HDD I decided to install Windows XP Professional x32-bit and have been facing problems trying to get drivers back onto my PC because on HP's website all their driver downloads are for either Vista or 7. I've been doing some research haven't got far at all. Is their anyway I can get these drivers working on XP?
 

womble

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Well you should be able to locate all the drivers for that motherboard, looks like an Asus Intel chipset. I imagine XP would have some of the basic drivers already but I would start at the chipset. I think Intel has utilities on its site that will scan an advise you for their stuff, worth a look.

http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/idyp

The audio and LAN both look like Realtek so you could probably get the basic drivers from that site.

Piriform do a free little prog called Speccy which will look at your hardware and try and list it too.