G50vt-x1 and XP?

Hey guys! My girlfriend got me a Asus G50vt-x1 for Christmas (she's soo great!! =] ). When we got home with it, I instantly flatted the HD and threw Ubuntu on cause I hate Vista. I've decided to dual boot with XP and Ubuntu so I can play some games. I've managed to get XP with SP2 installed. I'm just having a problem locating Sound Drivers. Could someone point me in the right direction? I see the Asus website has Vista 32bit drivers available, but I assume I don't want to mix drivers and OS's. ( I am running a 32bit version of XP)

Also. I've got the wireless drivers installed, and working (at least it's connected to my network wirelessly). When I start Firefox, it won't display any pages? It's almost as if it's not connected. I'm able to see the computers on my network, but just web browsing doesn't seem to work. Any suggestions?

Thanks!
-RYknow

 

Look at THIS Page.

It has a guide for all XP drivers for the G50vt.

 

Thanks for the fast response!! That was just what I was looking for! I've downloaded all the drivers. I'm still having an issue with sound though. The links to the Realtek drivers are not for a 32 bit OS. Any help getting a driver for XP 32 bit would be awesome!

Thanks!
-RYknow

EDIT: Seems all the drivers are for a x64 bit OS? Power4Gear also doesn't work.

 

Sorry to hijack this thread.

1-What would the memory allotment with 32-bit XP be including the GPU?

2-I've heard the general consensus against it, but is it that bad? I mean so long as XP64 has video drivers available at laptopvideo2go that's all I think I care about. Or am I just asking to crash in games all the time for no reason if I went with XP64?

3-Do I get all 4.5GB with XP64?

4-Will those drivers on that guide work with the 64bit version?

 

In general, 32 bit is:

Total memory read: 4 GB
subtract GPU memory
subtract sound card and other hardware memory
= memory left for RAM

Normally this is 3-3.5 GB.

This isn't bad, unless you're running games that use more than 3 GB RAM. And yes, 64 bit can read 4.5 GB. I dunno about XP, but 64 bit Vista can read up to 128 GB of RAM.

 

Well, the GPU has 512mb dedicated. Windows recognizes 3.0gb of RAM.


-RYknow

 

So 3GB for the mainboard plus the GPU for 32bit?

 

Sorry for the DBLpost, I had one more question.

WHAT's THE GAMING PAYOFF?

 

Well, not that it's a crazy game, but I just install C&C 3 Tiberium Wars, maxed out all settings, and it plays perfectly smooth. I'm installing Battlefield 2 right now. I've got an Elite though, so I'm not going to throw a bunch of games at the laptop.

I scored a little over 9,000 points on 3Dmark06. Thats stock GPU speed, and with a fresh install of XP Pro, 32bit. I also am not one of the more fortunate people who ended up with a 9800GT either. The display model I looked at had a 9800GT, but when I got home mine shows 9800GS. =[

-RYknow

 

ryknow have you solved your sound issue??
i have no sound with xp installed on g50vt-x1

 

has anyone found a solution to the sound problem. i have installed all the xp drivers from the g50vt page. Realtek sound drivers are installed yet windows doesnt recognize the sound driver. Im trying to install the Audio HDMI, but it just closes itself right after installshield is initialized.