l502x & 32 bit windows...can you help me?

Hi,
Can i install windows xp on my l502x? where should i get xp drivers? (official or non-official). I searched their site and only found 7 64bit drivers?! so what about 7 32bit and xp?

any help appreciated
thanks

 

Before you begin be sure to get the lan, wifi, and video driver so that you can view and access the internet.

Then obvious choice is to get the driver from the device manufacturer online as Dell doesn't supply the drivers you require.

 

Why do you need a 32bit OS in 2011 on a brand new notebook? Most stuff works on 64bit without a hitch and older stuff, like 16bit applications can be run in a virtual machine. I haven't found any software which would not run in either local 64bit mode, compatibility mode or in a virtual machine.

A native 32bit OS is not only quite hard to install on the L502, but you will also loose a lot of features.

 

Thanks for your reply, Razor,
I have many programs on my 32 bit system, most of them support 64 bit but not all of them, even some of them does not work properly on 7. I understand why they had not released XP drivers, but for the 7 32bit it's weird!
but yet it's a question to me, has anyone here installed the 32bit version on this notebook? which features may i loose exactly (usb3,bluetooth3,what?)?

thanks

 

Unfortunately, we can't really help you without someone keep asking question like he previous post.

Neither I could really help you. But I could tell how to get started and where to start looking.

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Since you are trying to get windows xp ... which is the most difficult to install nowadays. You no longer can rely on your original vender to provide the drivers if using a consumer class model.

Grab the obviously easiest to grab which is the intel chipset, intel graphics, and the nvidia graphic.

Everything and if everything above not obtainable.

Do a google search on the hardware id or compatible hardware id.
You have to find drivers from other OEM and models which might provide a working version.

You could install hacked drivers since 32 bit OS does not enforce the requirement of a signature.
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Since you said software has problems with 64 bit OS, why not use XP Mode or VM.

The most reason why I could think x86 software wouldn't work in x64, if a portion of their code require 16 bit addressing to do something ie really old printers drivers

It is not weird for the consumer models to be not provided the 32 bit drivers nowadays. Since most consumers will not pay for something they cannot utilize. Also, helps the OEM just to support 1 thing.

If you wanted the ideal legacy support, consider purchasing a business class model.

 

With a native 32bit 7, you will "only" loose RAM over 3.5Gb, as an 32bit OS can not address more. With 32bit XP, if you can get it work, apart from the RAM problem, USB3 and other advanced features won't work.

As I said you can run any program with the following methods:
1. Almost everything made after 2005 will run on 64bit W7 natively
2. Almost everything made after 2001 will run on 64bit W7 with compatibility mode, meaning it will work
3. If everything else fails, or for 16bit programs, you can install either XP mode (which is a full XP in a Virtual Machine out of the box) or install any other VM with XP in it. This will give you the very same features as a native XP install, without any compromises...the only thing is that you need somewhat more RAM and a good CPU if you want to run high-performance applications in XP mode. (i7+6Gb RAM will work)