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Title: Help with Windows XP Drivers
Post by: JamesV6CDX on 06 May 2020, 17:49:22

Before the security patch brigade hang me out to dry  ;) This isn't an internet machine, but I have installed Windows XP onto an old laptop of mine for car diagnostic purposes (Various, not just Vauxhalls). It HAS to be XP.

so I've installed XP SP3 and the Dot Net 3.5 Framework.

But I cannot get it to accept my graphics / VGA drivers. The laptop is an Acer Aspire 5740, with intel graphics. All of the support stuff online is for Windows 7, onwards.

Do you think I'll get a VGA driver for this machine, or am I piddling in the wind? Sound drivers would also be very useful, but I can't seem to find either!

Title: Re: Help with Windows XP Drivers
Post by: Broomies Mate on 06 May 2020, 19:25:16

Serial number would help, as Acer (like most others) used different chipsets from one week to the next.

 :y

Title: Re: Help with Windows XP Drivers
Post by: Broomies Mate on 06 May 2020, 19:28:05

I hasten to add, it's unlikely drivers were written specifically for WinXP.

Title: Re: Help with Windows XP Drivers
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 06 May 2020, 19:43:17

I bought an ex job Panasonic Tough book for that very purpose.

Upgraded hard drive and NOS XP Pro and job jobbed.

Also had to buy an external DVD rom drive to load software onto it, but all in was about £200.  ;)

Title: Re: Help with Windows XP Drivers
Post by: deviator on 07 May 2020, 10:22:35

Try this....
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/22642/Intel-HD-Graphics-Driver-for-Windows-XP-exe-

I am assuming it's the Intel HD graphics card.