Asus F7Kr XP Downgrade Questions

So I really have no been happy with Vista. I gave it a try for about five weeks, and at this point I would rather be using XP. Like most new laptops, it seems that the driver CD and Asus website contains all Vista drivers. I picked up a copy of XP Pro SP2 student edition at school, and I am planning on installing it this weekend to replace Vista.

I have been having a hard time finding some non-vista drivers, but I have already obtained network, video, sata, and sound. I am most concerned about chipset (AMD 690G I believe), function keys, card reader (Ricoh), touchpad drivers (Alps) and Bluetooth.

I am looking for any tips or things I will need to worry about for the drivers. Am I going to need to make a bootdisk for the SATA drivers? Are there other Asus laptops that use these pieces of hardware whos drivers I can use?


Thanks in advance.

 

bump? =) sorry, I posted this late last night and was hoping some people today might have some advice.

 

I have an Asus A7K-X1, which is the same as the F7K, but with a Turion CPU instead of an Athlon, and an ATI HD 2600 GPU instead of a HD 2400. I'm running XP. I don't have full functionality of the side buttons, e.g., Power4Gear & Splendid Video Enhancement, but all of the FN keys work, as do the multimedia controls at the front. I've successfully installed XP drivers for every device except one: the IR remote receiver (which is useless anyway, because the North American versions of these laptops don't come with an IR remote). You can find many compatible XP drivers on the Asus site under the A7T model downloads. The A7T was the predecessor to the A7K, and it supported XP. Many of the A7T XP drivers will work with the A7K and F7K. Also, some of the official Asus Vista device drivers for the F7K will work in XP as well.

For video drivers, just download the latest ATI Catalyst drivers for the HD2400, and modify them with the ATI mobility modder program. You need to do this in order to get ATI drivers to work with your HD2400, because ATI doesn't officially support mobile GPU's with their drivers (but they work flawlessly once they're modified). The Catalyst drivers will also install the ATI chipset drivers.

The one driver I had the hardest time tracking down was the ATI HDMI audio driver. It was the last "unkown" device listed in device manager, and I had no idea what it was, but I finally figured out that it was the HDMI audio device, and I just googled "ATI HDMI audio driver" and found the right driver. HDMI works flawlessly on my A7k in XP, with both video and audio.

Good luck with your XP installation. Let me know if you have any questions.

 

Hey Yoko - Thanks for all the info!

I was able to get most of the stuff going, and I am quite happy with it so far. The only devices I have left showing up as unknown are the "SM Bus Controller" and simply a "PCI Device".

Any ideas on what those can be? Sound works, ATI HDMI works, Modem, Wireless, and Wired NIC are fine. I used the ati omega drivers and they are working as well. Function keys are also fine.

Any advice would be appreciated! thanks again


edit: got the pci device working, it was the raid driver =)

 

ahh got the smbus working as well.. found it, and all the other drivers in a nice package from amd.

http://wwwd.amd.com/AMD/SReleaseF.nsf/softwarepages/DriversbyDeviceChipset?OpenDocument

 

Hey Yoko - have you setup bluetooth? I can't seem to get it going.

 

Hi all!

Excuse me my poor and bad english, i am english and notebook softwaree nebiee too

I have same problem with downgrading on notebook asus F7Kr.

Yesterday i buy this notebook and i try to downgrade from vista on winxp.

So I used googled and found this forum and discussion

Thanks for Yokozuna, his advice and link on to how install radeon hd 2400!

Graphic card works correctly, sound, LAN a WiFi card too, but have problem probably with tv card and bluetooth..

 

Welcome to the forums, bad English is not a problem as long as we understand your poblems. Can't offer you F7-owner insight since I'm not one, but perhaps you can try this: look up your bluetooth device manufacturer, go to their website, and download their driver for XP. That should work.

Maybe do the same for the TV card, as well.

 

Check this out!

I have been going through the same issues, and while the thread does happen to have links and information scattered haphazardly about itself, it -is- complete enough to piece together how to downgrade your F7KR

Asus forum

*Edit= I forgot to put the link in! haha!

 

Hi guys!! I also have the same problem as you. Vista really suck and I'm trying to put xp on A7k.. Where did you get the sata driver? I'm not able to find it anywhere.. Thanks for help..

 

The generic Intel driver should work.

Follow the guide below:

http://www.digitgeek.com/how-to-slipstream-sata-drivers-into-xp-cd/

 

Drivers and optional utilites for Asus F7Kr (XP 32 bit)
Drv_Util_ASUS_F7Kr__XP__x86.part1.exe (100 Mb): http://depositfiles.com/files/l1y37fj2u
Drv_Util_ASUS_F7Kr__XP__x86.part2.rar (100 Mb): http://depositfiles.com/files/nbhoz1i8r
Drv_Util_ASUS_F7Kr__XP__x86.part3.rar (11.77 Mb): http://depositfiles.com/files/shus4odi5

 

kin n e 1 hepl me 2 put win3.1 on it k thxbye!