captainx :
Hello Everyone,
I am trying to help my wife get her newly purchased machine up and working in XP. It came with Windows 8 pre-installed and she hates it.
The model is Asus Q500A Intel i5-3210M 750 GB Hard Drive, 6 Gigs Ram
I need to locate a video driver for Windows XP and any other compatible drivers I can find for it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Ken
i can identify with that.... i hate it too with a passion
i am in a similar situation, most of the drivers can be found for xp, definitely gfx driver can be found.
you might want to try driverpacksolution. google it. you can dl and make a dvd of it
you will want to download "intel chipset" for xp drivers beforehand and put them on a flash disk because i had problems with the usb3.0 and driverpacksolution.
you can definitely find your video card driver for xp. that is the easiest driver to find ever. just look up the brand and go to their website
that being said i have a couple issues in xp with my laptop, even tho all drivers got installed correctly seemingly. major one is the realtek hd audio is not detected for some reason so i have no sound on boot, i have figured out a workaround but its annoying. sometimes my computer boots up with the wireless showing disconnected but its actually connected. it does not go into standby correctly when i close the lid. when i open it again the screen will not turn back on and i have to reboot. now i manually put it in standby but when i turn it back on i have no sound. you may run into similar issues and its a pain. being that this computer is for a female she prob wont be able to deal with this and you might want to try windows 7. of course maybe you will get lucky and all will work perfect. maybe worth a try if you got some time to spare...
just because the driver does not exist on the manufacturers website does not mean it "does not exist", most all devices use 3rd party chipsets.... and i doubt you have tried it guy. dont be ignorant. that sounds like an answer you would get from asus tech support just cuz they dont want to deal with you...
make the dvd of driverpacksolution, then put everything else you need on a flash drive.
what video card you got.