Moving from 7 RC to XP MCE

[lankyj]

Ok... i'm putting together a frankenstein PC for my wife, it's an old Athlon 64 3500+ w/ 3 gbs of RAM

First, I was trying to install XP MCE on it, but I had no luck... basically I guess the issue is with XP not having AMD drivers for the SATA HD, and I don't have a floppy drive to F6 the drivers on... I tried d/l'ing the drivers and using nlite to slipstream them into to the install, but I couldn't get it to work.

Yesterday I installed Windows 7 RC on it to give it a whirl, and it just seems wayyyyy slow! I was wondering, if I used my XP MCE disc now and installed it over the current RC 7 install, would I still have the driver problem, or will the XP MCE install carry over the drivers from the RC 7??

Hope that made sense,

THANKS!

John...

 

[Outlander_04]

does your bios have an option for native ide mode for the sata ports?

enable it

xp will install

 

[lankyj]

does your bios have an option for native ide mode for the sata ports?

enable it

xp will install

Nope, don't have that option in my bios, hence my prob...

 

[Outlander_04]

then the next option is to install a floppy . You could open the case and install it temporarily

most computer shops would be giving away used floppy drives . Download the drivers and work out where f6 is ;-)

 

[lankyj]

No luck with that here... but my question was, if I try to install XP now over the already installed Windows 7 RC, will it take, or will the drivers used by 7 disappear while I'm installiing XP?

Thanks...

 

[aevm]

I don't think that would work. Drivers depend on the O/S, and I doubt that Windows 7 drivers are any good under XP.

 

[Kill@dor]

I don't think it would work either... Windows 7 drivers are in their own league...

 

[shortstuff_mt]

In my experience, Windows 7 runs just as fast as XP. I don't think you're going to notice much performance increase going to XP. I'm sure I'll get jumped for saying it, but oh well!

 

[Kill@dor]

Why go back to XP anyway?

 

[Outlander_04]

you cant install any older version over a newer version of windows

which is why you need the floppy or to sort out why RC7 is so slow for you . Did you use an old hard drive?

 

[Kill@dor]

There is a guide from...for optimising windows speed and performance

This guide is sickness man...check it out. Black Viper OWNz RC 1

http://www.blackviper.com/Windows_7/servicecfg.htm