I have been trying to get an old Vintage Copy of Windows Xp working. It actually came out of an old systwm. So when I put the Hard Drive in another
vintage machine I struggled with the password at first but got logged on only to see my Vintage games from yester year what fun! My problem is finding the VGA Compatiable Driver and some PCI device drivers because of different hardware. After hours and hours of trying to find drivers, no luck. Most of them
downloaded corrupt. Boy go and try to just search drivers talk about malware.
My two questions anyone sucessfuly registered their vintage copy of XP? And who knows a good reliable source for old vintage motherboard drivers? The sources on the net or not too good. Even trying to get further down the list.
Also anyone else into Vintage stuff? I have tons of orginal software CD's laying around. Anyone else have a big collection of CD rom's. For some reason I think I may need to keep. I am still sorting to try and come up with drivers. I may just try and salvage what I can and format the rest. It would run though if a could come up with the vintage drivers.

Thank you soo much and Happy Computing.
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On 2018-04-22 14:02, Brad Hansen : All wrote:
  My problem is

finding the VGA Compatiable Driver and some PCI device drivers because
of different hardware.  After hours and hours of trying to find drivers,
no luck.  Most of them
downloaded corrupt.   Boy go and try to just search drivers talk about malware.  My two questions anyone sucessfuly registered their vintage
copy of XP?  And who knows a good reliable source for old vintage motherboard drivers?  The sources on the net or not too good.

Don't want to rub it in or anything, but this is one of the things we
who like/love Free Operating Systems(tm) knew to expect from commercial
OSes that does like for instance XP Home did, the "oh, you can just call
this phone number and we will reactivate it for you, and don't mind that
it went unlicensed just because you put a new CD-drive in it, just call
and we'll be very forth-coming". Which I'm sure they were, until that
phone number stopped being "profitable" and now you have to hunt through malware-ridden sites to just boot the OS.

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Brad Hansen wrote to All <=-

I have been trying to get an old Vintage Copy of Windows Xp working.
It actually came out of an old systwm. So when I put the Hard
Drive in another vintage machine I struggled with the password
at first but got logged on only to see my Vintage games from yester
year what fun! My problem is finding the VGA Compatiable Driver
and some PCI device drivers because of different hardware.

After hours and hours of trying to find drivers, no luck. Most of them downloaded corrupt. Boy go and try to just search drivers talk about malware. My two questions anyone sucessfuly registered their vintage
copy of XP? And who knows a good reliable source for old vintage motherboard drivers?

My go-to for driver updates is IOBit's Driver Booster 5 - it's both a
freeware and paid version. The freeware version has worked fine for me
for a number of years. It keeps my XP Media Centre box running smoothly
even if I have to replace a part that let all the magick blue smoke
escape. I can still play Railroad Tycoon - yippee!

https://www.iobit.com/en/driver-booster.php takes you to the IObit site. Current V 5.3.0 | 19.0 MB Supports Windows XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10

Hope this does it for you. If not try the forums at https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/

BleepingComputer.com is a premier destination for computer users of all
skill levels to learn how to use and receive support for their computer.

You may have to wade through a lot of virus/malware/spyware, etc. topics
but, support is generally available and forthcoming.

Hope this helps.

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Janne Johansson wrote to Brad Hansen:

On 2018-04-22 14:02, Brad Hansen : All wrote:
  My problem is

finding the VGA Compatiable Driver and some PCI device drivers because
of different hardware.  After hours and hours of trying to find

drivers,

no luck.  Most of them
downloaded corrupt.   Boy go and try to just search drivers talk about malware.  My two questions anyone sucessfuly registered their vintage copy of XP?  And who knows a good reliable source for old vintage motherboard drivers?  The sources on the net or not too good.

Don't want to rub it in or anything, but this is one of the things we
who like/love Free Operating Systems(tm) knew to expect from commercial OSes that does like for instance XP Home did, the "oh, you can just call this phone number and we will reactivate it for you, and don't mind that
it went unlicensed just because you put a new CD-drive in it, just call
and we'll be very forth-coming". Which I'm sure they were, until that
phone number stopped being "profitable" and now you have to hunt through malware-ridden sites to just boot the OS.

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You can find XP activators that install a shim on a number of the extant XP boot CD's, like Hiren's.

I would encourage everyone with old driver CD's to upload them to archive.org.


Greetings, James Digriz
email: jbdigriz@bbs.dragonsweb.org

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