XP drivers on new hardware without manufacture support.

[jiminpa]

Does anyone know of a tool that can properly ID brand new hardware that the manufacture has not provided XP drivers for? Then provide links to possible generic drivers or something from the chipset manufacture. (It would be nice to have the level of driver support that one gets in most linux live disks, but, it's windows, so I don't really expect that) I have a new HP pavilion that needs to run XP & not 7. Not a virtual XP in 7 or in Linux, but XP on the desktop. I don't really want to have to add new cards for sound, ethernet, & video but have had no luck from HP and little luck on searches for info & drivers.

 

[hang-the-9]

No such tool, but run CPU-Z http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html, it will get you a good list of the components, then search for drivers based on that.

Much of the time, the PC won't work with unsuported drivers properly, especially if it's a laptop. Usually you get blue-screens, random reboots, etc...

 

[jiminpa]

@ hang-the-9, why can't everything just work like linux??? LOL!!! Thanks, I will give it a try. I have tried Everest hardware scan, but, it hangs on this new (1 week old) HP desktop.

 

[jiminpa]

In the end I ran debian with XP pro running in Virtual Box. Not what I wanted, but, gets the job done.

 

[jiminpa]

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