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Drivers for Win XP SP2

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nishant_nms
nishant_nms Original post #1
Nov 28, 2005 at 7:06 AM
I have K8M800 based motherboard. I am using Windows XP but when I got SP2 Cd from Microsoft I installed it and now my windows became SP2(means i have two CDs one of XP and another of SP2). Now I am thinking of formating my drive and install XP then Sp2 cd and then the drivers for the mobo and i do not want touse the old CDs driver. So i visited Viaarena for drivers but I found that it had got drivers for Windows XP and WindowsXP Embedded SP2. So now which drivers I should download and install. Thanks in advance
V
Nov 28, 2005 at 8:56 AM
just check for the dates of the release of the drivers

anything after august 2004
will be XP-sp2

and by the way no site will seperately mention drivers for XP-sp2

sp2 is just an update to XP !!!!!!

so u can safely download them and install after checkin the update dates !!!!
dIgItaL_BrAt
Nov 29, 2005 at 3:06 PM
xp sp2 embedded are the drivers meant for those devices in which xp is pre-installed & configured for a specific task i.e it is a componentized version.

so u need to download the drivers for windows xp
QwertyManiac
Nov 29, 2005 at 6:07 PM
nishant_nms said:

Dude, read his post... he said he visited Viaarena and thus the confusion started :?

I see only one difference between Installing SP2 and Embedded SP2 - the feature to uninstall is there only in External install :)
dIgItaL_BrAt
Nov 30, 2005 at 1:12 AM
embedded sp2 does'nt mean a normal xp system with sp2 installed,it means specialized devices using a customized version of windows xp sp2.
P
Dec 1, 2005 at 12:00 AM
Windows xp embedded is not same as our desktop xp. The embedded operating systems are designed for different types of embedded systems.
A different type of hardware.

You have to download driver for windows XP only.