Solve : Downgrading to x86?

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Answer» I just bought a new PC (Dell Studio XPS 8100, Core i5 750) and it CAME preloaded with Windows 7 Home Premium x64. I am considering downgrading (or upgrading, depending on how you look at it) to Windows 7 Professional x86. The only problem is, I am not sure if my graphics card will be able to operate in 32-bit mode. It is an NVidia GeForce 310 http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_310_us.html and I want to make sure that it will still work on a 32-bit OS. Does anyone have any ideas as to whether I will run into problems?Just download the 32 bit driver for it from the Nvidia site and you're good to go.did you see a 32-bit driver? I couldn't see one.Sorry - I was saying that downloading the driver is the criterion for determining it's 32 bit compatibility - I hadn't looked. But I'm looking now and I don't even see 300 series cards listed.Quote from: ALLAN on February 08, 2010, 11:20:22 AM Sorry - I was saying that downloading the driver is the criterion for determining it's 32 bit compatibility - I hadn't looked. But I'm looking now and I don't even see 300 series cards listed. I didn't either. Only way I even know how to get a 64-bit driver is on the resource CD that dell included with my PCI'd suggest contacting Dell. Quote from: Allan on February 08, 2010, 11:39:40 AM I'd suggest contacting Dell. As per your suggestion, I called Dell and they told me that there was no 32-bit driver available for download, but that if I installed my 32-bit Windows and performed automatic updates that it would install the necessary drivers automatically. That sounds a little fishy to me. Because of the language barrier between myself and the international support rep, that is as much as I could understand. Do you think that the driver that magically installs itself will just be a generic video driver? Or do you think that such a magical driver even exists? Let's make it easy. Download a disk imaging utility and create an image of your hd. Then you can feel comfortable doing WHATEVER you want with the knowledge that you can always restore the image to your current system state. To be 100% safe, create two images (one to a second HD if possible) and make sure that they are verified. Here's a link to some good free options: http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/backupandimage.shtml. If you want the best of class, that would be Acronis True Image, but it's not free.

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I just bought a new PC (Dell Studio XPS 8100, Core i5 750) and it CAME preloaded with Windows 7 Home Premium x64. I am considering downgrading (or upgrading, depending on how you look at it) to Windows 7 Professional x86. The only problem is, I am not sure if my graphics card will be able to operate in 32-bit mode. It is an NVidia GeForce 310 http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_310_us.html and I want to make sure that it will still work on a 32-bit OS. Does anyone have any ideas as to whether I will run into problems?Just download the 32 bit driver for it from the Nvidia site and you're good to go.did you see a 32-bit driver? I couldn't see one.Sorry - I was saying that downloading the driver is the criterion for determining it's 32 bit compatibility - I hadn't looked. But I'm looking now and I don't even see 300 series cards listed.Quote from: ALLAN on February 08, 2010, 11:20:22 AM

Sorry - I was saying that downloading the driver is the criterion for determining it's 32 bit compatibility - I hadn't looked. But I'm looking now and I don't even see 300 series cards listed.

I didn't either. Only way I even know how to get a 64-bit driver is on the resource CD that dell included with my PCI'd suggest contacting Dell. Quote from: Allan on February 08, 2010, 11:39:40 AM

I'd suggest contacting Dell.

As per your suggestion, I called Dell and they told me that there was no 32-bit driver available for download, but that if I installed my 32-bit Windows and performed automatic updates that it would install the necessary drivers automatically. That sounds a little fishy to me. Because of the language barrier between myself and the international support rep, that is as much as I could understand.

Do you think that the driver that magically installs itself will just be a generic video driver? Or do you think that such a magical driver even exists? Let's make it easy. Download a disk imaging utility and create an image of your hd. Then you can feel comfortable doing WHATEVER you want with the knowledge that you can always restore the image to your current system state. To be 100% safe, create two images (one to a second HD if possible) and make sure that they are verified. Here's a link to some good free options: http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/backupandimage.shtml. If you want the best of class, that would be Acronis True Image, but it's not free.

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