Question : Problem: Are Toshiba Laptop CPU's  ONLY Vista Compatible ?

Having a 1 Year old Toshiba Laptop that came with Vista,   I am wanting to reformat the hard drive and load Windows XP Professional on it and I am being told by the computer tech that the CPU will only work with VISTA and I never heard of that.    Can I  put XP on my Toshiba Laptop and if so how do I get the XP Drivers for the other components in the laptop ?

Answer : Problem: Are Toshiba Laptop CPU's  ONLY Vista Compatible ?

4ubest - No, there are no CPUs that are only Vista-compatible. Some newer CPUs have functions that XP may not take full advantage of (like being integrated with Trusted Computing Platform), but there is no such thing like CPU only compatible with Vista.

Only thing is that, if it's 64 bit CPU, then to use it's full capabilities you'd need x64 version of Windows XP (which is slightly harder to get), but nonetheless, the only difference would be in the speed of processes like data compression (and this still on condition that the program makes use of 64 bit instructions).

In summary: no CPU exists that is only compatible with Vista. If someone tells you otherwise, they either think you're stupid, or are stupid themselves.