Moving Back to Windows XP

leedsfan88

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

PogMoThoin

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??

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

PogMoThoin

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

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

aidan_walsh

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

PogMoThoin

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/

leedsfan88

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

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

PogMoThoin

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.

Cryos

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

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???

SickBoy

The original disks will work.

Overheal

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.