Help with Windows XP Drivers

[JamesV6CDX]

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!

[Broomies Mate]

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

[Broomies Mate]

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

[Doctor Gollum]

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. 

[deviator]

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.