My wife has a laptop we bought in nov. Came with vista It's an HP 9607us duel core 1.70ghzAmd 64x2 Can you guys or girls tell me if I can dump vista and go back to XP Any problem getting all the drivers?

There shouldn't be a problem getting XP drivers for that notebook (though you'll have to search outside of HP's website for some of your drivers; HP didn't seem to have video and sound drivers). Why don't you give Vista a chance by upgrading your memory? 512MB isn't even enough for moderate use under XP. 1GB DDR2 SODIMMs are dirt cheap and will make Vista much more responsive. You might even change your mind about going back to XP. :) The lean, mean, movie playing P3 machine P3-S 1400 @ 1.66GHz, 158MHz FSB 2GB PC2700 DDR 7950GT AGP Optoma 1280x720 projector JBL 5.1 amp and speakers Now storing 114 HD movies

You should be able to get rid of Vista, but if you do, you will need to repartition the whole thing considering there is prob a second partition on your hard drive with Hp's disc restorer, if you want all the drive space back. Using a free program called Kill Disk should take care of that. You can find it here. http://www.killdisk.com/ You shouldn't have a problem with getting XP drivers onto your laptop. http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/... But I agree with Jackbomb it would be cheaper to upgrade to 2gb of DDR2 SODIMM ram then to buy XP Home Edition. 2gb DDR2 800 SODIMM $49. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ... XP Home Edition $90. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...

penvetliin, The 512MB you listed for RAM is actually for L2 cache. The RAM you haver is actually 1GB (upgradable to 4GB) per the product spec link below for HP 9607us. http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/... i_Xp/VistaUser

Actually its 512 Kbs of Level 2 Cache. Thats half a megabyte. Although its not impossible, 512 Mbs of Level 2 cache would cost a small fortune. Stuart

The Athlon 64 X2 mobile processor has 256kb L2 cache per core. All they really are is Turion TL-50's with a higher clock speeds, because the Turion TL50 was the only Turion dual core to support 256kb L2 cache per core. All the other Turion dual cores supported 512kb of L2 cache per core.

Thanks you guys, I really appreciate all your help. but vista is just a pain in the butt. I goofed on the 512 of ram though. They said it came with 2 gigs, but the computer says 989. I don't know how that 512 got there. sorry about that. Anyway thank you. You guys and girls are the BEST!!!!!!!!!