Difference between xp and vista drives

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HeyBub said:
Google "no+xp+drivers" yields over 2 million hits.

Dell and Toshiba are particularly prominent in the first few Google
entries. Toshiba actually says they are under no obligation to provide XP
drivers for a machine on which Vista is pre-installed.
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Then don't buy them. Probably inferior mobos if that is the case.

Name me a mobo that only comes with Vista drivers, Asus? LAN Party? ABIT?

The don't yet exist. This is hyperbole.

Dell and Toshiba have been good pushers of Vista. But also why my last PCs
wasn't from either. Especially Dell, selling business models with the same
or similar mobos but without XP and drivers... go figure.
 
Rick Rogers said:
Hi,

No, but there are cases where it can't make as full use of it as Vista
does because some of the capabilities didn't exist then. Most if not all
modern hardware still has XP drivers available for it. That statement was
meant more to imply that Vista should not be installed on XP-era hardware.
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Have an example of a Vista only system from HP, Dell, Aspire, Lenovo?

Because with a little digging, bet I can get XP drivers for it. Include
processor, mobo chipset and any video chips/cards it has.... lets go...
 
Pedro said:
What the difference between Win XP and Win Vista?
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What's changed from Windows XP?
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/93929171-8e24-1e6a-cf68-b48eb22073611033.mspx

whai the drives of xp don't work with Vista?
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Are you talking about device drivers? If so, you're discussing two
different operating systems. It's a very rare thing for device drivers
specifically designed for a legacy (old) operating system to work on a
newer OS, particularly when the under-the-hood differences are so
significant.


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