I just bought a Compaq Laptop (model number C795TU). I installed Windows XP Professional (Service Pack 2) on it. The problem is that a lot of stuff isn’t working – the audio device is not detected, neither the Ethernet card and wireless card. Video is displayed, but using the default VGA driver from Microsoft, not the one required for this. It’s a widescreen Laptop, but the maximum the standard resolution the VGA driver can take is 1024×768, instead of the proper widescreen ratio it should take.

The hardware is not faulty, because I ran a live session of Ubuntu 8.04, and it detected and worked with all the malfunctioning devices. I’m comfortable with using Linux, but my dad is going to be using this and he wants Windows, so installing Ubuntu won’t help.

So I went to the HP website to look up the drivers for this model. Here’s the page: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareCategory?lc=en&dlc=en&cc=in&lang=en&os=228&product=3739763&

Now, if you click on the link for Windows XP – http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?os=228&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=in&lang=en&product=3739763 – you’ll see that none of the drivers I require – audio, video, wireless, Ethernet – are listed. Only the storage solution driver from Intel, which I don’t need because it’s working fine. The others which are there are useless – because I don’t want to update HP QuickLaunch buttons – this model doesn’t have them.

However, if you go to the page for Vista – http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?os=2093&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=in&lang=en&product=3739763 – you’ll find that all the drivers are listed – Conexant HD Audio, Atheros Wirless, Realtek Ethernet, Intel Video – etc.

My question is, can these drivers (specified to be for Vista), be used safely with XP? If not, then what should I do? I checked for the drivers separately too – like at Intel’s downloadcenter.intel.com for the Mobile Intel 965 Express Chipset, but found none for XP.
I did think of using driver checkup utilities like RadarSync and Driver Soft to get the updates – or even Windows XP’s built-in driver update feature in Device Manager, but I can’t. Because, as I mentioned, the Ethernet card and wireless card aren’t being detected by Windows XP. So I’ve no way of using those programs to check for available drivers.

I tried to format my Travelmate C110 using recovery CD provided. Right at the start, it kept saying something like ” not enough memory, remove some drivers from your config.sys” ???? It doesn’t make sense since I booted from the CD. Please help. Thank’s

I have a HP Pavilion Laptop which came preloaded with Vista at the time of buying. I want to install XP for some reason. For this purpose i bought a portable hard-drive. When i tried to install XP in that hard-drive it went ok till the stage where the system & other files get copied. But after that i am not able to proceed. He doesn’t allow me to boot thru xp even though i try to boot from my portable hard-drive. But surprisingly & luckily i am still able to boot thru my vista & there, when i see the boot loader dtls he shows only 1 entry corresponding to vista. Can somebody plz tell me how to finish my xp installation successfully and use the same?
Thanks, Rohan

I just downgraded to my Laptop from Vista XP, but i cant find any drivers, and the HP site doesnt have them.

I have a virus scanner that does detect viruses every day. I delete them but my computer keeps messing up realy bad. I was wondering if reinstalling windows xp would help. If so, how can I keep everything already on my computer?

I have 3computers 2 winXP and 1 Win 98 I have verizon sercurity suite
Problem
the win 98computer can see and share files with the two xp computers and use the xp’s printer but the 2 xp computers can see but not access anything on the win 98 computer
I have tried to turn off the firewall and still no luck
I can transfer files from 1 xp to the other xp using explorer on the win 98 one they transfer them to each other through the win 98 computer but can not access the files or even see directories on the 98 computer

any help would be appricated

glen

I bought a computer last month and found out the win xp professional system on it was bougus. Bought a new win xp ho. edt.and Installed it. Instead of erasing win xp profess,I now have 2 copys.taking up 38 gig of hard drive out of 40. I need to uninstall the win xp prof or both operating systems. How can I?

For Nvidia nforce networking controller
50.2.4.0???
My computer originally had Win XP media center edition,
Bought Windows Vista Ultimate and installed it, but I didn’t like it at all, so I decide to go back to win Xp now I cannot install the drivers for the netowrk card,
My boss has the same computer model it’s an HP Pavilion a1600n,
If anyone has any info please let me know I can’t connect to the internet from my house,

Tnx everyone

I have found a driver that seems to be the right one, however is is for Win 2000 at this link…

http://www.soundcard-drivers.com/drivers/222/222049.htm

I use Win XP home edition, which was factory installed, just like the sound device. Also if anyone knows of any Free drive scan devices or sites that can scan my system for out of date drivers I would appreciate it
I checked out Driver Detective, however it will not allow you to download the drivers that you need without paying some sort of membership fee. I do not wish to pay for the service.