Out Of Luck For Old Hardware

Posted by NovaAngel at March 31st, 2007

There won’t be suitable 64bit drivers for a lot of older PC components, even after the official release ofWindows XP Pro x64. For some manufacturers it is just not economically viable to develop new drivers for hardware which is no longer in production. In such cases help might be available in the form of alternative drivers produced free by dedicated hobbyists, but even such emergency measures won’t cover every one of the older hardware components still in use.

The situation is further complicated by the fact that at the beginning of the year Microsoft changed the rules for driver implementation on future versions ofWindows. You can find details at www.microsoft.com/whdc/driver/install/64INF_reqs.mspx.

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