Question : Problem: Need to find XP drivers for an HP Pavilion A1744x or asus board ABM2N-LA

Need to find XP drivers for an HP Pavilion A1744x or asus board ABM2N-LA

Unbelievable HP or any of these other manufacturers would provide a product that does not support drivers for XP.  This clients computer of mine has a product that is not supported with Vista and we are downgrading it.  Need specifically smbus, pci bridge and ethernet drivers.

Asus does not provide any drivers nor does HP tech support.

Thanks

Answer : Problem: Need to find XP drivers for an HP Pavilion A1744x or asus board ABM2N-LA

If you can identify the chips used on the board then you can find the drivers chip by chip. [It's not as hard as it sounds.]
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You can either go to the chip manufacturer's site or find another motherboard that uses the same chip and go to their site.

Here's the main ones to start you out:

Main chipset is a GeForce 6150 LE
- Go to nVidia here:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_169.21_whql.html
[It's a HUGE download, nVidia crams all their drivers for all their chips into one download.]
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This should include your on-board video driver as well.
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Dig around the nVidia site and you'll probably find some other apps or utilities to go with the chipset and video.

Audio is ALC888
- That's a Realtek HD audio chip
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=24&PFid=24&Level=4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false#High%20Definition%20Audio%20Codecs

LAN is a Marvell chip.
- That one is probably built into XP or available via MS update.

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