Drivers Vista 32-bit works on XP 32 bit?

I got this HP model a6544f since a few months now and find that much too much my older hardware (scanner, etc.) and 16-bit software (which I use daily) simply does not work with Vista or a 64-bit OS. I prefer to use XP 32-bit where all happy lives on my old machine. But the driver for this system only specifies Vista 32 - bit or 64 - bit. I already added a "real" video card to get digital and put output at power level to manage this card. If necessary, I suppose I could live with the 32-bit version of Vista, but would really prefer to use XP. (I think of all the "improvements" in Vista as nothing else that candies for the eyes, and you have disabled as many of them as possible anyway.)

Does anyone know if Vista drivers 32 - bt for different systems of motherboard will install on XP 32 bit? It will make you life easier if they do!

Thank you

Greg

HP a6544f, currently with Vista Home Premium 64-bit,
nVidia GeForce 8600 GT has added and PC Power & Cooling Silencer 610W parts provide (to power video card)

GregPH wrote:

Hmmm... all the drivers I need are components of the motherboard . I was under the impression that HP (Compaq) plus their own Board of Directors. This would imply that it won't be manufactured by 'component', all the drivers no?

Motherboards are circuit boards, which don't require drivers.  Components (i.e. the device IC) soldered to the circuit require drivers.  They are made by the respective device providers. for example peripheral chips done Intel Intel, NVIDIA is peripheral chips NVIDIA, Realtek is peripheral chips Realtek, so on and so immediately.

And no, HP does not motherboards.  Even if it did, nothing would change, he wouldn't have the IC device used on the motherboard.  HP gets the device drivers to the sellers of the device, as everyone (including the motherboard manufacturers).

That said, you should have no problem getting the current XP drivers.  All devices in this system are suppliers that make drivers available to the public.  There are some sellers who don't release drivers for the public, like Atheros, Analog Devices, Broadcom (only for wireless cards), Sigmatel (IDT) and a few others, but your system does not all devices from these suppliers.

Here are the devices that require drivers of your system:

Intel G33 + ICH9R chipset INF Installer
http://downloadmirror.Intel.com/16023/A08/INFINST_AUTOL.exe

Intel Matrix Storage Manager for RAID or AHCI ICH9R
http://downloadmirror.Intel.com/17059/eng/iata86enu.exe

Creator of F6 disk prompt to provide the third-party storage driver when installing XP (required only for RAID or AHCI mode)
http://downloadmirror.Intel.com/17061/Eng/f6flpy3286.zip

NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_178.24_whql.html

Microsoft High Definition Audio Bus - install before the Realtek audio drivers
http://s89934018.Onlinehome.us/Driver/kb888111xpsp2.exe (XP SP2 required)

High definition audio Realtek ALC888S
FTP://66.104.77.130/PC/audio/WDM_R209.exe
ftp://202.65.194.212/PC/audio/WDM_R209.exe (alternate server)

Realtek RTL8111C Gigabit LAN
FTP://202.65.194.212/CN/NIC/PCIE_Install_5708_1119.zip
FTP://66.104.77.130/CN/NIC/PCIE_Install_5708_1119.zip (alternate server)

Conexant 56 K PCI soft modem (VEN_14F1 & DEV_2F20 & SUBSYS_200C14F1)
FTP://ftp.HP.com/pub/softlib/Software7/COL16029/PV-42541-1/sp26804.exe

Agere LFW3227 Firewire (provided by the seller of BONE)

You are using a PCI-E graphics card so the drivers are not necessary for the graphics card Intel integrated, which is automatically disabled when you use the PCI-E x 16 graphics card.  FireWire and USB controller drivers are now provided by Microsoft for OS later to Windows XP SP1, make sure you get those through the operating system, service packs or Windows Update.

To answer your original question, some driver packages can support Vista and Windows XP.  For example, I downloaded a driver Atheros WiFi Dell's who did the support for Windows Vista.  But when I extracted the driver files, it contained drivers, and other files required for both Vista and XP, but the real drivers for Vista are not compatible with Windows XP.

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