Help! XP x64 drivers!

I am at the end of my rope, so I finally come here to lay it on the table for the gurus of notebookreview.com.

I bought a sager NP8660 and after reading several reviews and posts around the net figured I could manage with windows XP x64 as a viable alternative to vista.

Now three weeks later I sit with an almost completely unusable laptop and no compatible drivers. I've emailed sager, clevo, xoticpc (from whom I bought the laptop), and have spent several hours of fruitless netsurfing. I also tried a free driver updater (driverrobot) that could copy via thumbdrive to my crippled laptop and take an image of to send to their servers so they could process and send me the drivers, but it seems that their servers are "temporarily" down indefinately.

HELP!

Does anyone know anything? Any ideas that will save me from the pain of having to drop another large chunk of cash on vista and waste my purchase of xp x64?! Where can I get those drivers!!?

Thank you.

 

I find it highly unlikely that you have NO compatible drivers at all.

You will need to know the brands and models of hardware in your laptop. What sound chip, video chip, network controller.. Then you need to get the specific drivers for those things.

Since I have no idea what a NP8660 has in it I can't help much.

 

To be honest, you got one of the newest and latest piece of hardware, with top notched specs. And you just ruined it trying to put XP onto it. Your gpu performance alone would not be maximal with XP drivers.

XP-x64 drivers in general are tough to find. You might want to look into some 32bits, and install them in this compatibility mode.

cheers ...

 

Why do people keep thinking that 32-bit drivers can be installed in XP64?

THEY CANNOT.

 

The other problem is that XP64 was only available to system builders / OEM and they didn't exactly warm to it (I cant think of one company that built home PC's that used it). This meant that drivers were not really written for it for most hardware and those that were usually stopped development when Vista 64 came around.

Deciding to swap from Vista to XP64 is like deciding that Windows ME was the best O/S ever released and was rock stable for years. Swallow your pride and go back to Vista 64 because, even though it has the V word in it, its still a lot more stable and reliable than XP64 ever was (plus it has driver support).

 

Actually XP64 was pretty freakin' awesome. Dell had XP64 rigs at least. I ran XP64 on a gaming rig for over a year. Mind you, it was a fairly simple setup, so my driver needs were pretty basic. For your name-brand video, sound, and chipset drivers XP64 stuff is available and current. For stability it was rock-solid. XP64 is based on the Server 2003 x64 codebase and is updated with Server 2003 hotfixes and service packs. Are you going to say Server 2003 x64 is unstable? 8)

The problem is Vista x64 has steamrolled into the 64-bit forefront, and most systems capable of running XP64 are fully capable of running Vista x64. XP64 was always the red-headed stepchild and now it's being put out to pasture. MS doesn't even have a website for it anymore, the XP64 pages all point to Vista x64 stuff.