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Posted:8/24/2008 9:13:00 AM

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Hello all,

I just bought a G50VM-X1 from Best buy and so fare all works well. But I am not very happy with the High demands and compatibility problems from Vista 64bit, plus I have a lot of old 32bit programs, so my question is, Can I downgrade to XP 32bit, I'm fully aware about the mem limit, but I'm sure I could live with "only" 3.5 G Ram.
I have a XP 32bit Full version, but the problem will be all the drivers, so fare I haven't found any XP drivers on ASUS support pages.
Have anyone tried this Downgrade and found any drivers ?

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Posted:8/24/2008 1:14:00 PM

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Most of the hardware devices of both G50V and F8Sa are the same. So, I think you can try to use the same F8Sa XP drivers and utilities.

http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&model=F8Sa

The chipsets of these 2 models are different. G50V uses Mobile Intel® PM45 Express Chipset +ICH9M. So, the chipset driver must be downloaded directly from the following Intel site.

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/confirm.aspx?httpDown=http://downloadmirror.intel.com/16026/a08/infinst_autol.zip&agr=&ProductID=2991&DwnldId=16026&strOSs=&OSFullName=&lang=eng

Cheers!!

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Posted:8/25/2008 5:22:00 AM

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Thanks Willy,

As soon as I got hold on my XP cd, I'll give it a try. Thanks for the links, I didn't knew about the F8Sa,
I'll sure give it a try.
If it don't work I can always go back, as I have a complete restore DVD and drivers.

It's ridiculously Vista on a stand alone mode (No other applications running) eats up 34 -36 % of your memory. It's just an OS......

Cheers

John