Installing 32 bit XP on a Clevo P150HM system

I will be installing Windows XP Professional 32 bit on a Clevo P150HM based system. Has anyone successfully gotten all the drivers working in XP? If you have tried and failed, which specific items will not work in XP because of driver issues? If not, is there any other model notebook featuring the 485M GPU that is more XP driver friendly?

 

Hi Kimchiman,

There is no way that you will get a 485 running on windows XP

you would have to do so much modding its simply not worth it

 

May i ask why you want to use Windows XP on a Clevo P150HM? (Sager 8150)
If you need to use certain "odd" programs that only runs on XP i would recommend setting up a virtual XP install instead.

Also running Windows XP will disable DirectX 11, DXVA accelleration of video files, DirectCompute, OpenCL and who knows what else. D:

 

It's to run one specific old program my boss wrote. Virtual XP was tried and it will not work. Most of the features you stated that won't work aren't required. Getting the sound ports working, the USB 3.0, and the graphics card working are the main requirements. The laptop will be used for recording video from a camera and then playing it back using our software. We tried a vostro 3500 and it wasn't powerful enough. My boss is set on the 485M GPU even though I suggested the 460m GPU. I explained how drivers will be the main issue, but he wants to still make the attempt. After the attempt to get XP working on the laptop, he will rewrite his program to run on Windows 7 X64. But that will take a few months most likely and he wants to get something up and running soon.

 

Still i would give VirtualBox a chance before doing a XP install.

It will give you access to the host computers GPU and sound.
I seen Youtube vids of people who could play games off that solution.

But a solution to your Windows XP question could be to make a special XP disc with drivers already loaded into it.
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I wish you luck,
DEagleson

 

You can partition the hard drive then run a dual boot system. If you cant get everything to work on the XP partition at least you can go back to the Windows 7 partition. But as mentioned before, dont expect to get all the drivers you need installed on XP.

 

Totally agree! Virtual Box or VMWare Player (both are free and user friendly).

 

And in case no one already knows it, you get Windows XP free with Win7 anyway through XP mode

Download Windows XP Mode

No reason to bother with virtualbox/VMware if you just need compatibility (plus, no need to get a license for XP on the side- XP mode comes with a fully licensed copy)

 

Theres actually many XP 32-bit drivers that can handle the 485M with a slight inf mod.

The only downside of XP Mode is the fact VirtualPC which it uses as the hypervisor does not support any means of hardware video acceleration which may or may not be a problem depending on what needs to be done, VMware however does have full hardware 3D support for guests, Parallels also has this, VirtualBox technically does but it's not entirely the same as the VMware and Parallels implementation and is limited to the same 3D support you would get from running apps on Wine on Linux (VirtualBox uses Wine3D as it's backend for acceleration) and some apps don't work correctly with this.

On a side note, one thing VMware can do over the others is import your XP Mode as an XP VM.

It all comes down to usage case and power demand for how you want to approach it.

 

I would recommend VMware as well. There's no point to installing a real version of XP when virtualization works much better.