Okay. I bought me a new comp the other day, and it came with Vista Home Basic on it. Now, I play alot of games, and since most dont run on Vista, I decided to install XP. It installed just fine, but it gave me issues. 1) No sound. I thought that all I would have to do was download the correct driver, but this is where #2 comes in. 2) The comp wont detect my LAN if xp is installed. Any way to fix these issues?

Another post about trying to get rid of pre-installed Vista. Have you read the following thread http://computing.net/windowsvista/w... i_XpUser

Hi drivers here for xp http://www.emachines.com/support/pr... click 'downloads' sigmatel audio driver for xp :)

Thanks for the link. :) But now my issue is. the comp wont connect to my LAN unless Vitsa is installed. ><

You have to download & install ALL your XP drivers...motherboard chipset, sound, video, LAN, etc. Unfortunately eMachines only lists Vista drivers, so you've got some research to do.

But how am I supposed to download all those drivers when I cant get online? O.o

"I play alot of games, and since most dont run on Vista, I decided to install XP." You meant *your games*, not games at large, right? All my games run in Vista fine. In fact, Armed Assault demo actually runs better in Vista than XP, which is surprising... "But how am I supposed to download all those drivers when I cant get online? O.o" You should have collected your drivers before you did this. Easiest thing to do now is pop on another computer at an internet cafe, library, or friend's house and find the others. "Enough, enough bowing down to disillusion! Hats off & applause to rogues & evolution! The ripple effect is too good not to mention. If you’re not affected, you’re not paying attention!"