Often the vista drivers don't work, ie the driver itself checks the OS. You need to go searching for older models with similar hardware on the various HP sites, ie Europe, Asia and the US. I did it with my HP ok.
Hi people,
I have a HP pavilion laptop that comes with Vista but I've lost the driver CD.
I don't really want to use Vista anyway.
Here's the question : If I install XP Pro, will the vista drivers for this model be accepted by XP ?
The HP site doesn't have all the drivers listed under XP, video and sound in particular.
Loopy
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Often the vista drivers don't work, ie the driver itself checks the OS. You need to go searching for older models with similar hardware on the various HP sites, ie Europe, Asia and the US. I did it with my HP ok.
Oh crikey....that sounds like a nightmare lol.
The HP site seem to be a little slap happy, difficult to know where you're going and links that are wrong.
I intend to reformat a larger drive for it and then install xp pro. (I'm not going for that vista crap)
Once installed, I hope hp's "driver finder program" will work for me, but I'm a little dubious.
Check out the manufactures support site. I find that most will have drivers for the most recent OS's archived up.
Driver finders are fine so long as you have the basics set up first, ie, networking, no good trying to find the driver for the network card when you cant get out on the internet to look for it!!!
I always like to manually install drivers.
good luck
Why don't you use Windows 7 I find it user friendly more so than Vista and Xp
If you have an external hard drive you can use this proggy to back up all your drivers of choice.
oops, didn't read his post properly.
It's a HP Pavilion DV2000 lappy.....more specifically DV2308tx.
"Why don't you use Windows 7 I find it user friendly more so than Vista and Xp"
I would but I can't afford to buy it.
loopyloo (10-04-10)
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loopyloo (10-04-10)
tristen (11-04-10)
On demonoid, a copy of windows 7 HP and Compaq OEM has been uploaded, which will install on any hp or compaq computer without a key.
tristen (11-04-10)
There was a time when I was very anti HP and Compaq, as well as some other brands, due to the need for specific drivers and customised versions of operating systems, which proved in many cases, near to impossible to obtain.
But I have been pleasantly surprised of late, to discover that HP/Compaq have now made drivers and other helpful information, easily and readily available for download from their (numerous) websites, worldwide.
Good on you, HP/Compaq. Well done!
Well just to update you guys
The video crashed on this machine, so I reflow the GPU and got it going again.
Installed win 7. Naturally, all the vista drivers installed fine, BUT, had nothing but trouble trying to gain administrative control. Microsoft making it hard again.
Just when I thought I was on top of it, the video crashed again.
Re-reflowed the GPU but it died.
I guess this will all start again once I get myself another second hand laptop.
Once again, thanks to all.
Last edited by loopyloo; 13-04-10 at 04:58 PM.
Thanks for the update.
I couldn't see any Windows 7 drivers on the HP website for your model, while some other models do have Windows 7 drivers specifically listed.
As the Windows XP drivers are all on the website I posted, why don't you simply load Windows XP?
If you still have problems, perhaps an e-mail message to HP might throw some light on the problem.
I have loaded Windows XP on to a number of Compaq/HP notebooks (including N610C, NC8230, DV4000) this year, utilising appropriate drivers from the HP website, all without any problems whatsoever. I have Windows 7, but as I don't like sleepless nights or tearing my hair out during the day, I will not install it on any notebook computer until specific Windows 7 drivers appear. Besides XP runs well, so I don't see any good reason to change!
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