PC problem Please help I beg you desperate.. About DRIVERS..XP.. Vista.. PC info!!!! JUST READ PLS?

SO you might find this a little dumb...



My dad bought us a PC last year and it had vista.. It was all fine (except for those thing only vista can't do) ... ok so I don't know, if it's hardware drivers etc was built/designed for vista.. But we hated vista sooo much.. so we refromatted our PC ( dont know how it was done)



So now it's XP... and we have sooo many problems with the drivers.. 1st of all



.. NO SOUND.. IT JUST WONT ALLOW MO TO HAVE SOUNDS



.. WRONG VIDEO CARDS!!!



... NO PROPER DIRECT X ( installed one.. no use)



.. SLOW ( not really that slow just thyat vista was faster)







Ok so I rilli dont wann go bsack to vista...





SO does this mean I have to replace all teh drivers and all the hardware.. etc etc.. IF so.. how!!! instruction pls!!!



PLS READ



CONTRIBUTE!!! you can even just say something stupid jus DONT ASK ME A QUESTION!!!!!! THIS IS ABOUT ALL THE INFO I CAN GIVE IM NOT THAT MUCH OF A COMPUTER WHIZPC problem Please help I beg you desperate.. About DRIVERS..XP.. Vista.. PC info!!!! JUST READ PLS?
you need the drivers for all of them it seems.not an easy task either for a beginner.easiest thing sounds like going back to vista if you can.if it installs the drivers itself then thats easy but having to locate them i find that a little tediousPC problem Please help I beg you desperate.. About DRIVERS..XP.. Vista.. PC info!!!! JUST READ PLS?
If you reformatted your comp by yourself you probably didn't do it right. Take it to someone that knows what there doing.
find out what your computer's specs are and try doing this simple trick:

google search: *name of the driver* driver download

ex: 'ASUS N32-SLI' driver download



And start downloading and installing them 1 by 1, I assume your graphic card is nvidia/ati , go to their official websites www.nvidia.com/www.ati.com and find the drivers you need.
this is from HP and most manufactures have the same statements



HP does not recommend changing the operating system from Windows Vista to Windows XP and does not support doing so. The outcome may leave your computer in an unknown state, functionality may be diminished, and you may need to acquire Windows XP compatible application software, drivers, or even hardware.

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/docum
You will need to go to the machine manufacturer's siter and download appropriate XP drivers for the machine. If they do not have any, you either go back to Vista, or throw the machine away.
The reason you are not getting the answers you need is because you have missed out the make %26amp; model of your computer. To obtain the drivers, you must visit the manufactures website. However, if the computer was built specifically for Vista then some of the XP drivers may not be available.



wdw
Ok, so first off... You bought a computer, that had vista on it? then you bought a windows XP CD? and used it to format the computer and install XP on the computer? Am I right? (just want to make sure first, otherwise my suggestions are moot points)



If I am then the answer is as easy as pie. Go to the website of who ever made you computer (HP, Dell, Sony, etc) and download the drivers for your model number computer.



See what happens is, since you did a clean install, and used a windows XP CD, there were no drivers installed, why? simple, cause Microsoft does not make computers, they make software, and since Bill and his crew did not know what kind of computer you have, they said, forget the drivers, just give them the software, and have HP, Dell, Sony, (and whoever else makes computer) have the drivers for there computer on there own website.



This will fix your Sound, (cause sound card is not installed till you download the driver)

Video card (cause again, not installed till you download the driver)

Direct X (again video card problem)

Slowness (well you may want to do those things first, and then maybe a BIOS Update.



But that should do it.
Find out which moherboard you have and go on the maufacturers website and click support or drivers and select your motherboard version. There should be drivers there.
It sounds like vista is your best option. Problem with rolling back is some components are not supported by the manufacturer in XP. Dell has there own drivers for everything andalthough you can use the basic driver its not going to work as well as dell's vista driver.



Vista does have a stepp learning curve and can be annoying with all the questions but it is a better OS then XP (Marginally). And it will support all your ram which is potentionally one reason your PC is now slow. you have to understand XP is almost 10 years old. It does not support much of the new technology.



The other issue is if you have further issue and you need to contact your pc manufacturer, they will probably tell you that they can't support you and since you are a self proclaimed non computer wiz this could be problematic for you.



Even if you hate vista you will probably end up hating XP more in the long run. and remember there are tons of options in vista to make it more XP like.