Hi Guys, I've just taken delivervy of my new Studio 1537 laptop and I have to say it's lovely. However, Vista is just horrible and I want to take it off and downgrade to XP. From experience, what issues can I expect to encounter? I've got an ATI 256mb Radeon card which I shouldn't have any problems with drivewise. I'm not sure about everything else. Any advice would be really appreciated lads. Thanks in advance. Tony

Hi Tony, Your going to have a lot of work in front of you, if you go ahead and put XP on the studio 15, your dell software page HERE. Dell has no XP software for the studio 15, so your going to do a lot of web searching for drivers. HERE is an journal on how to get XP on your system, and HERE is an journal on your drivers order. Also you will need this if you have an SATA hard drive HERE, as XP and SATA dont like each other.

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Tony,

I have a Studio XPS13 and I was trying to install from the DVD drive and it doesn't even get to the install screen, errors off with a long string to run chkdsk/f  saying I may have virus (don't).  I have tried on 3 xps13 and same so it's a Hardware issue with configuring.

Any suggestion to install XP Pro x64 from Vista Home Premium?

SATA 500GB ST drive

256 Nvidia card

Just a thought... since you're trying to install a new operating system anyway, try the Windows 7 free release candidate. The various Vista drivers for your laptop should work fine, and the final Windows 7 product will be released in late Oct. If you like it, you can preorder now and get the Home Premium version for  $50.

I'm running Windows 7 on an old Dell laptop and like it.

I hae a 1340 and thought of W7.  I will do the upgrade once it comes out. but wanted to know successes on 1340's on downgrading.

Brian

You have to go into the BIOS and change the SATA option to IDE. It will then get past this blue screen

Here is all the drivers you need for this downgrade. Also has the driver for the SATA (blue screen issue) , so you can slipstream the driver and not lose performance.

http://angrytechblog.com/2011/01/dell-studio-1537-windows-xp-downgradedrivers/