As usual this was a case where someone wanted a downgrade from vista to xp and it turned out that this machine was a samsung SENS Q45 laptop preinstalled with vista with the korean interface, it was a core 2 duo machine with 1gb ram 12.1" screen, bluetooth, wifi, lan, modem, 1.3 megapixel webcamera and 120gb hard disk drive. I had to make sure i would be able to get the necessary drivers before i formatted it, creating a recovery disk for the vista was another headache because everything was in Korean and I haven't had the time to learn Korean yet.

The first task was obviously to search for the drivers, the model number on the bottom of the laptop mentioned it as NT Q45 but on further research I found that samsung referred to it as the NP Q45 and I had to look for the appropriate drivers, after a bit of a tedious search i reached the official samsung site here offering multilanguage option for the windows xp operating system.

After this it was smooth sailing with the usual clean install from a windows xp disk integrated with sp2.

After the installation was done the first driver to be installed was the chipset driver followed by the graphics driver and then the sound.

If you have the Win XP with SP2 integrated installing the sound driver can be a bit tricky and u will have to install the high defintion audio driver package before installing the realtek driver, after that everything went smooth except for the modem which is not yet working.

If you have the Win XP with SP3 integrated you won't have to install the hi-def audio driver package.

This had to be followed up with installing the korean language pack to enable the machine to be used for Korean language input both for internet usage and word processing using MS Office 2007.

I'm too tired to post all the details will do that in a few days...

if you have any queries feel free to comment