Help with switching to XP.

I recently purchased a HP Pavilion laptop. It had Vista pre-installed and I wanted to install XP instead. I have already installed XP but now I am having trouble getting the correct drivers for this particular laptop. I went to the HP site but they don't have the drivers I need for XP (they do, however, have an extensive selection of Vista drivers for this model of course). What I am in need of right now is the drivers for my audio (is not currently working) and my wireless (not even a icon in the network connections page). These were all fine with Vista and I hope they will be with XP. Here are my system specs by the way:

HP Pavilion (model - dv2845se)
2.1GHz AMD Turion(TM) 64 X2
4GB of RAM
NVIDIA GeForce Go 7150M

If anyone could help me to find the drivers that I need I would greatly appreciate it

 

Is there anything I can do? I am really trying to figure this one out but to no avail. I even called HP support but they told me that they couldn't help unless I had Vista installed. I am so miffed seriously. I don't know what to do at all. I tried looking to see what type of sound card I have but my system info won't even detect my sound card so I can look up the drivers. Can anyone help at all?

 

I just bought this laptop from Best Buy last week too and contemplated doing a dual boot with XP if I discovered Vista 64 to be unusable. I think what you will find is that this laptop is a retailer only laptop made by HP, so support might be a little rough. If HP doesn't have the drivers, you might check the web every so often because someone will probably create them for XP. Until then, I would run Vista. Did you wipe out Vista to load XP, or did you dual boot? If you wiped Vista, you may need to restore back to factory via recovery disks. I was very leery of Vista, but am glad I stuck with it for a few days..I am getting used to it and like the new features.

Good luck!
Kelly