[colonel_frogger]

I bought a Brand new Dell Inspiron 531 AMD ATHLON X2 5000 + 2.6ghz 2.0 gb geforce 8600+ GT last week and I want to get rid of Vista.

Here are my reasons :
1- Nothing new on Vista except memory-eating for no good reasons ( except if you are a girl and like a animated OS)
2- Wireless internet doesnt work (REALLY I TRIED EVERYTHING )
3- Stupid pop ups : do you really want to do this ? do you really REALLY want to do this ?
do you really REALLY REALLY want to do this ? ...
4- System crashes and instability
5- Slow my system down
6- Everything is messed up and when you finally finds the dialog you were looking for, its the old XP dialog at the end of the maze.


The thing is that i tried installing Xp back but when i boot from the cd, my dell bios doesnt recognize my usb keyboard. I dont have a ps2 port nor bios option to turn legacy usb keyboard ON.
What can I do to bring back XP ? WIll my computer hardware support xp ?

Thx

[AcaCandy]

Hi and welcome. Since you just got it, I think Dell still has/had options of ordering new systems with XP. You might call them and tell them that you aren't happy with Vista and see if you can't get them to change it to XP.

Did you go out and buy a copy of XP?

[DaveA]

You and other Dell customers seem to having these problems. I have NOT seen anything like this of the 10 or so Sony's and HP's that I have setup.
I would get with Dell and have THEM fix you up, I do NOT think it is a Vista issue.

The memory issue is not a issue, as Vista uses memory differently. Yes, it appears to hog up a of memory, but it will only grab extra memory as needed. I have yet to a error message about memory use low.

[colonel_frogger]

I called Dell already, and they have deals with Microsoft and they cant send me a copy XP. I talked quietly and then yelled and nothing seems to work out...

I am definitly going to get dell to fix these issues !

Gab