Usually yes, you may have invalidated your warrant / tech support however
since HP only seems to support Vista on this PC


"michael" <michael@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have a motherboard (ASUS IPIBL-LA) on an HP computer (M9040N) that was
> intended for vista. I don't like
> vista so I wiped it clean and installed xp home. With the help of forums
> I
> found drivers for everything so my device manager is clean. My original
> intent for this
> computer was something fast for HD video editing. Is my system going to
> function at 100% or could it be compromised not using the intended OS.
> If
> the device
> manager shows no problems then can I assume everything is OK?