Asus G1S and XP?

I have a Compal IFL90 ordered from Powernotebooks. I have had it ordered since June 4th and I am fed up with the wait.

My question is this.. I do not want to use Vista at this point. Is it possible to buy a G1S and wipe the hard drive and do a clean install of XP? Would this be opening up a can of worms with drivers, etc.? Is the G1S specifically engineered to run Vista, and Vista only.

I have some games (Call of Duty to be specific) that need to be run on XP.

Thanks for any input

 

I think it will be okay. I'm in the same ship as you are... but I'll be going with Vista Ultimate x64...

 

Thanks for the reply Osso002. I am looking for someone that has actually done it. Would really like to know if it will mess anything up.

Any takers?

 

another sort of gaming question. would medieval 2 total war work on the vista for the G1S. On the requirements it says XP or 2000 but will it work on the vista?

 

Try this thread:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=128586

The trickiest part is the storage drivers, which you need to slipstream into an xp cd using nlite.

Edit: and bluetooth, I havent been able to get it going.

 

Riffz:

Thanks so much for that link. Very helpful in making my decision as to what to do.

I am gone for a week at a time for work. I guess I will give Compal until the first week in August to ship out those notebooks or I will pull the plug on that one and get an Asus. Seems like a lot of work to do the XP conversion but at least it looks like it can be done. I don't need bluetooth so I'm cool with it not working.

 

People have reported on the process to dual-boot a machine that comes pre-loaded with Vista so they can use XP, and I intend to follow in their footsteps with my G1S when XP arrives in a few days. There is definitely no question that the G1S can't work with XP, however you will reportedly need to use laptopvideo2go drivers for the graphics card, since there are supposedly no Asus XP drivers for GF8 cards.

I'd suggest you think about dual-booting with XP rather than getting rid of Vista, since the G1S doesn't come with a clean Vista install CD, only a rescue disc. If you wiped it you'd have to buy another whole copy in the future if you DID want/need Vista. This way, although you lose a little HDD space with the Vista installation, you can use XP without caring about Vista until such a time as it becomes to your benefit to change back. Say after SP1 or SP2 is released, and Vista actually grants you permission to install games