HP won't permit XP to run on my notebook

After spending many hours attempting to resolve driver problems in my recently acquired HP dv9500z CTO notebook, I just discovered that this Vista supplied computer CANNOT accept XP. Upon receiving the notebook I removed the pre-installed Vista Premium, installed my retail Vista Ultimate and configured a successful dual boot with a clean installed XP Home. The Vista partition worked fine after downloading many missing drivers, but the XP displayed 8 or 10. Only some of these were fixed while 5 remained unresolved, here is the reason for that. I found a document written by HP which says that XP CANNOT BE INSTALLED ON THIS MACHINE either alone or as a dual boot. You can read their 4 page document at http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&cc=us&product=3546969&dlc=en&docname=c01092639 .

 

So what exactly is your question?

 

Indeed. This is common knowledge.

 

I forgot to ask if anyone knows a way around this. Also, I didn't realize that this was common knowlege.

 

When I had my Hp/Compaq I found a couple of very helpful articles in the HP Business forum, as well as a few other places by doing a google search. I was able to get XP running sucessfully but had to force-install a few drivers(ie hd audio and modem). Try a model number google search with "Xp Install" after it.

 

Thanks but I will just use my or notebook which has XP.

 

It sucks doesn’t it.
If you need xp on your laptop you have to make sure the manufacture has xp drivers for it on their website.
A lot of new hardware won't be supported under xp as Microsoft wants to sell vista.
I have purchased new laptops with vista and successfully installed xp but the drivers were available on the manufactures website.
Alex

 

You do that.

 

Well, that's just uber sucky. I will never buy a machine that insists I be tied to a given flavor of OS. That's why I bought a business-class HP notebook. Doesn't look as flashy, but I can put whatever the hell I want on it.

 

Well most people don't understand how hardware and software works together. They don't understand that XP is no longer supported really, and that companies aren't going to pay someone to write supporting drivers for a dead operating system. Even with your business laptop HP's XP support is slim.

I love XP and wish I didn't have to use vista, but we are all going to have to deal with it. Unlesss you want to start messing around with Linux and stuff.