Saturday, August 23, 2008

onCALL 25/8, Inc. Prefers Computing Without Headaches

We get numerous requests to downgrade PC's from Windows Vista to Windows XP in Maryland, DC and Northern Virginia. I call it more of an upgrade... but I guess that all depends on your opinion. We've captured a video of the process and sped it up by 1000% (so it won't be so boring to watch!). In the video below the Dell inspiron desktop PC was easy to repair. Dell provided all of the drivers for this machine to run properly on Windows XP.




Please don't be fooled - the process is often quite involved. Some times the manufacturer does not provide drivers for XP. But with a bit of research we're able to figure out the proper chipset or original part number and get the system to work. Of the several hundred Vista to XP downgrades we've attempted there has been only two which did not have all drivers available and in both instances we were able to determine this prior to uninstalling / formatting the Vista install.

Now that we've put this video up I'm sure the onCALL 25/8 Mac Repair techs for Virginia, Maryland and DC are going to put up a video of installing windows XP on a MacBook or something.

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