Vista - Need help with a downgrade of Vista Home Premium to XP!!!

Hello all,
As I have said in my other posts I am having a lot of trouble with my new
computer and Windows Vista. The trouble is I can't find anyone willing or
able to work on a Vista OPS. I'm not able to stream live events from
EspN360.COM or NBA League Pass Broadband on NBA.com. So I would like to
install my old XP Pro. I got everything into the computer last night and I
guess I was missing some drivers, because my cpu wouldn't read the PCI or
video card, and it wouldn't even allow me to go into sleep mode, as well as
not get onto the internet. So I reinstalled Vista, and of course I'm still
having the same problems. I should have wrote down what all I was in need of
on XP but it was 430 in the morning and apparently I was pretty tired. If you
could help me figure this out and possibly give me a step by step process of
what I really need to do to do this correctly I would be extremely grateful
and possibly be in "AWE" of you and your skills!

Here are my computer's spec's just in case:
GATEWAY GT5622
3 GIGS of DDR2 Dual Channel MemoryRAM
2160 Dual core processor (1.8)
400 GB SATA II Hard Drive
15 in 1 memory card reader
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 Video
Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit edition

Thanks and God Bless!

You need to install Java in order to effectively view the
web sites you mentioned.

Free Java download: http://www.java.com/en/download/index.jsp

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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"Lloyd Denny" wrote:

Hello all,
As I have said in my other posts I am having a lot of trouble with my new
computer and Windows Vista. The trouble is I can't find anyone willing or
able to work on a Vista OPS. I'm not able to stream live events from
EspN360.COM or NBA League Pass Broadband on NBA.com. So I would like to
install my old XP Pro. I got everything into the computer last night and I
guess I was missing some drivers, because my cpu wouldn't read the PCI or
video card, and it wouldn't even allow me to go into sleep mode, as well as
not get onto the internet. So I reinstalled Vista, and of course I'm still
having the same problems. I should have wrote down what all I was in need of
on XP but it was 430 in the morning and apparently I was pretty tired. If you
could help me figure this out and possibly give me a step by step process of
what I really need to do to do this correctly I would be extremely grateful
and possibly be in "AWE" of you and your skills!

Here are my computer's spec's just in case:
GATEWAY GT5622
3 GIGS of DDR2 Dual Channel MemoryRAM
2160 Dual core processor (1.8)
400 GB SATA II Hard Drive
15 in 1 memory card reader
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 Video
Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit edition

Thanks and God Bless!

"Carey Frisch [MVP]" <cnfrisch@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:ecXw7fGhIHA.484@xxxxxx
I could not see any need for Java, but he might as well install it anyway.

He certainly needs the Flash Player though:
http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/

ss.

Lloyd Denny wrote:
If you want to stay with Vista, install Flash as was suggested. Otherwise
see this general guidelines for replacing Vista with XP:

A. On an OEM (HP, Sony, etc.) computer:

1. Go to the OEM's website and look for XP drivers for your specific model
computer. If there are no XP drivers, then you can't install XP. End of
story. If there are drivers, download them and store on a CD-R or USB
thumbdrive; you'll need them after you install XP.

2. Check with the OEM - either from their tech support website or by calling
them - to see if you will void your warranty if you do this. If you will
void the warranty, you make the decision.

3. If the OEM does support XP on the machine, call them and see if you can
have downgrade rights and have them send you an XP restore disk. This will
be far the easiest and best way of getting XP on the machine.

4. If XP is supported on the machine but the OEM doesn't have an XP restore
disk for you, understand that you'll need to purchase a retail copy of XP
from your favorite online or brick/mortar store.

5. Also understand that you will need to do a clean install of XP so if you
have any data you want, back it up first.

6. If none of the above is applicable to you because you can't run XP on
that machine (see Item #1 above), return the computer and purchase one
running XP instead.

B. On a generic/home-built computer (from non-OEM company) - You will need
drivers for all your hardware. See the second link below for more details:

http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html - Clean Install How-To
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/...alling_Windows - What
you will need on-hand

Malke
--
MS-MVP
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
Don't Panic!