Hi,
i love my xp machine, so much that i panicked when the GPU from my 2006 laptop died.
still run some 15 year old software on it and i use usb to transfer files to my modern system.
within a week i had a t420 i5-2520m and put xp on it,
but i need a small bit of dedicated memory on the GPU and the t420 doesn't have that.
and then i came across an old dell xps I7-2670QM with GT540M 2GB and i thought this would probably be a monster running XP.
and maybe i could even hook it up to a qhd screen with the displayport,
so i bought me a 2011 sandy bridge laptop
i started flirting with XP64, since an i7 with only 3gb seems a waiste of hot hardware for XP.
but since i was unable to get drivers i just went back to my old shiney XP cd.
all is well until i install XP, then all USB ports become so slow, they become unusable. on 7 and 10 they work flawlessly, when booting from usb that also seems to work normal.
i thought i could solve that by installing hm67 drivers from a cd, tried a few versions, but that didn't go too well...lpc took long.. and xp ended up with a bsod after reboot.
my question is: does anybody know what drivers i'm missing and where i can get them?
or is the whole trouble i'm in because this is just the wrong cpu or laptop, having too much cores or some weird chipset problems.
i love my xp machine, so much that i panicked when the GPU from my 2006 laptop died.
still run some 15 year old software on it and i use usb to transfer files to my modern system.
within a week i had a t420 i5-2520m and put xp on it,
but i need a small bit of dedicated memory on the GPU and the t420 doesn't have that.
and then i came across an old dell xps I7-2670QM with GT540M 2GB and i thought this would probably be a monster running XP.
and maybe i could even hook it up to a qhd screen with the displayport,
so i bought me a 2011 sandy bridge laptop
i started flirting with XP64, since an i7 with only 3gb seems a waiste of hot hardware for XP.
but since i was unable to get drivers i just went back to my old shiney XP cd.
all is well until i install XP, then all USB ports become so slow, they become unusable. on 7 and 10 they work flawlessly, when booting from usb that also seems to work normal.
i thought i could solve that by installing hm67 drivers from a cd, tried a few versions, but that didn't go too well...lpc took long.. and xp ended up with a bsod after reboot.
my question is: does anybody know what drivers i'm missing and where i can get them?
or is the whole trouble i'm in because this is just the wrong cpu or laptop, having too much cores or some weird chipset problems.
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