Can I run XP on an HP TX1000

I'm sorry to say, that if that PC came w/ Vista then it's ur best bet to keep using Vista, OEM PC's work best w/ the OS it ships w/ it has all the Softwear & OEM Drivers u need for it to function Correctly, that HP TX1120US Pavilion tablet PC, may or may NOT have any support for XP, and if it doesn't, Good luck finding any, that's pretty much the way it is now-a-days w/ OEM Systems.............. The problem that you are having sounds like the XP install keeps looking for the SATA Hard Drive Drivers (if that is what u have?) without them, XP WILL NOT install.........and will keep looking for them over & over again, in a Loop, that's why it keeps wanting to reinstall XP............Take a look at this Thread: http://www.notebookforums.com/thread206454.html it may give u some insight on how to FIX this problem, if u must run XP, u are in for even bigger problems, cuz u will need all of the XP Drivers to get all the other things to work in that system............GOOD LUCK!

i had the same problem, i have to go into setup of the computer and switch the drive, that worked for me. as it goes for drivers, that's a total pain. it took me all day to find the drivers i needed. good luck.

We can downgrade to XP with the old copy of XP operating system and can still get all the functions to work including screen rotation and screen rotation buttons. Visit the following site... the procedure to dual boot should apply to all system and computers that run Vista and XP. The driver is for TX1209 but understand that it is applicable to other TX1000 series... also HP site has all the drivers... http://skyjuiceiswater.blogspot.com/...-notebook.html

I formatted the whole hardrive used windows XP tablet and its ten times better boots up in HALF the time. You need to search for some of the drivers the hardest one was the Onboard ethernet Nic which is Nvidia surpirsed me. Also the tablets functions tighten up alot more with XP tablet alot more accurite. this page is in spanish but you can get it translated but honestly you dont need to near the bottom theres a whole section that says drivers which has link to all the drivers and they are english so you shouldnt have much problems . ******Note if you do not load the synaptic touch pad drivers when typing it will wig out so load those kind of fast. http://darkgiank.110mb.com/?p=64 <--------DRIVERS

Also windows offers alot more extra tablet programs that are only available with XP tablet. Like journal cross word puzzle and a whole bunch of extras so its your best OS for a tablet honestly. Let me not forget one of my best programs for tablets is Evernote and its completely free and saves all quick jot down notes when you close the program so you never have to worry about did i save that note when you open it back up there all there.

If none of that conviced anyone to switch this will. When i goto the system performance tab of my computer In Vista AT IDLE the computer was useing 1300mb of memory to IDLE CRAZY. I load WIN XP TAB system idles at 450MB so i cut off near a gig of switching OS worth every minute i spent.

@kanesis i m glad to read that u have had a good experience moving to xp from vista with this comp, but ur statement of was totally off base. vista handles/manages memory much different than xp - if not BETTER! . unused ram = dead ram! . vista just uses any available memory to make sure that processes run faster and better in the environment that it supervises. If any apps requiring the use of ram, vista will unload and make them available cheers ...

First off what were talking about is PAGE FILE this is what this means if you are truly knowledgeable like your trying to be. I troubleshoot computers thank you. In contrast, pagefiles function by moving "pages" of a program from system memory into the paging file. These pages are 4KB in size. The entire program does not get swapped wholesale into the paging file. This does require your system memory and virtual memory and hard drive space. Listen everyone knows vista is a resource hog. If you can tell me that a computer runs better on Vista then using any version of XP id have to laugh. Everyone knows you need to UPGRADE to run vista normally otherwise "Not Vista ready" is the term we use. Reguardless IF the pagefile is lower you have more memory to use for other programs. If the point your trying to make is that because Vista has such a huge amount of physical and virtual memory together = Pagefile. This is why you think in your words "vista handles/manages memory much different than xp - if not BETTER!" Id have to kindly disagree this person who originally made this post his wife excuse me is problly noticing the hang ups and pauses Inbetween everything they do. Go search the internet on XP vs Vista everyone that has Vista and knows there stuff wants to format and put XP on. For the little extra of the "GUI" system that it has its not worth it. Like i told you with my own experiance my system load time is half of what it was with vista not to mention people talking about software inside vista that is tracking your habits? Your statement " unused ram = dead ram!" do you really know what your saying is not true. so are you saying if my page file does not show my 2gb of memory instead in wndows xp it says 450mb "pagefile" then my computer is not useing this ram that would be one of the most outragous statements ive ever heard.

Cheers Mate

Vista eats up all available ram for caching purposes. XP does not. XP's memory management is to use the memory thats actually being used, leaving the free, free. In Vista, it caches all available memory for programs that you open the most, such as Firefox or maybe Outlook.

If you have a LARGE virtual memory, then its your fault. I have 4GB in both of my systems, I still have a VM in windows, just a very small one (256 - 512MB) and that paging file does NOT get used up during idle, only the physical memory.

Its the same thing on OSX, it eats up all of the memory, leaving maybe 5 MB free, but it doesn't compromise performance, actually improves it for some programs.

Cached memory is not the same as being in use by a program.

. who was talking about pagefile? not in my post responding to urs (...Vista AT IDLE the computer was useing 1300mb of memory to IDLE CRAZY...) now mate, u did assume this, i never say in ANY of my posts (search the forum, if u cared to learn) about vista comp running better than xp comp (and vice versa). End users decide on what is running better. U have decided on XP, and ur decision was being respected, just dont go around basting others for saying otherwise, because they have different needs, different environment. But i can tell u, with experience, that my current old emachines runs better at the moment with vista than xp! So do laugh to ur heart content, i m glad that it'd made ur day. define ur "everyone" - heck, my old emachines vista partition with its latest updates is taking over the xp part of it, and i can assure u that this old comp was "not vista ready" figure speaking, but i stood by the statement. again, vista (&many other OS) memory handling has NOTHING to do with pagefile cheers ...