[fr33kachu]

I have found, and if your reading this I'm sure you have to, Hp/Compaq do not offer support for Windows XP anymore. All new laptops come with Vista pre-loaded and they will not help you find drivers to do what they call "downgrade" from vista to xp. This is, what I think, a bunch of B.S. as I know there are XP drivers out the for these products. I made a huge mistake in not researching this before hand, with the holiday price of $399 and all I just jumped on it and bought an HP DV6605us. I should of bought a Dell instead.

Anyway, after searching for 2 weeks and reinstalling Black XP 5, 8 times, which by the way, is the only way I could get video due to the fact XP Pro SP2 doesn't have nVidia GeForce drivers and Black XP has RyanVM's Driver Packs in it. I finally found a solution. I found, through trial and error, all of the XP drivers for these Vista only machines are on HP's and Compaq's support site. They are all there and I know HP knows it. They are found on different models that came with XP pre-loaded but had the same or similar hardware. I know it seems like a real pain in the a**, well, it is but, you can find them. In my opinion Vista isn't ready to for public use and is still at best a beta version, like WinMe which also fell flat on it's face.

I have links here for the drivers I am using. These where posted by DavidPro on another site. He was on the ball way before I was. I just confirmed his findings and made sure his drivers where the same as mine after I had already got my laptop working. Plus he doesn't speak or type english very good, not that I do either.

If these drivers don't work for you and you have an intel based HP or compaq you will find the correct ones by searching on HP/Compaq's support site. You just have to find a laptop with the correct chipset that had XP pre-loaded or was a CTO model. I promise it isn't easy and I even debated recovering my laptop back to vista at some points but, I, to M$ and HP's dismay, have prevailed and done what HP said couldn't be done and what M$ didn't want to be done and "Downgraded" my laptop back to the best 32-bit O/S M$ has made, XP.

The Instructions are in spanish. If you need another language use google translate or babelfish. I hope some of you find this helpful.

Download:

Drivers Part 1: http://www.mediafire.com/?8xnr3gckbo9
Drivers Part 2: http://www.mediafire.com/?19ii9tigwni

This post has been edited by fr33kachu: 08 December 2007 - 09:33 AM

[mbmalone]

I am thinking these drivers are also for the intel based DV9000.

This post has been edited by mbmalone: 08 December 2007 - 10:05 AM

[LUZR4LIFE]

fr33kachu, on Dec 8 2007, 09:45 AM, said:

I have found, and if your reading this I'm sure you have to, Hp/Compaq do not offer support for Windows XP anymore. All new laptops come with Vista pre-loaded and they will not help you find drivers to do what they call "downgrade" from vista to xp. This is, what I think, a bunch of B.S. as I know there are XP drivers out the for these products. I made a huge mistake in not researching this before hand, with the holiday price of $399 and all I just jumped on it and bought an HP DV6605us. I should of bought a Dell instead.

Anyway, after searching for 2 weeks and reinstalling Black XP 5, 8 times, which by the way, is the only way I could get video due to the fact XP Pro SP2 doesn't have nVidia GeForce drivers and Black XP has RyanVM's Driver Packs in it. I finally found a solution. I found, through trial and error, all of the XP drivers for these Vista only machines are on HP's and Compaq's support site. They are all there and I know HP knows it. They are found on different models that came with XP pre-loaded but had the same or similar hardware. I know it seems like a real pain in the a**, well, it is but, you can find them. In my opinion Vista isn't ready to for public use and is still at best a beta version, like WinMe which also fell flat on it's face.

I have links here for the drivers I am using. These where posted by DavidPro on another site. He was on the ball way before I was. I just confirmed his findings and made sure his drivers where the same as mine after I had already got my laptop working. Plus he doesn't speak or type english very good, not that I do either.

If these drivers don't work for you and you have an intel based HP or compaq you will find the correct ones by searching on HP/Compaq's support site. You just have to find a laptop with the correct chipset that had XP pre-loaded or was a CTO model. I promise it isn't easy and I even debated recovering my laptop back to vista at some points but, I, to M$ and HP's dismay, have prevailed and done what HP said couldn't be done and what M$ didn't want to be done and "Downgraded" my laptop back to the best 32-bit O/S M$ has made, XP.

The Instructions are in spanish. If you need another language use google translate or babelfish. I hope some of you find this helpful.

Download:

Drivers Part 1: http://www.mediafire.com/?8xnr3gckbo9
Drivers Part 2: http://www.mediafire.com/?19ii9tigwni

You can get most of the drivers by contacting thier support by e-mail. I got a 812on from them and they sent me links for my drivers.

[fr33kachu]

This is the email response from HP

Thank you for contacting HP Total Care.
I apologize for the delay in response. Due to the increased volume of messages we receive daily, our response time has increased.
From your mail, I understand that you want to downgrade OS fro vista to win XP.Let me assist you in this regard.
HP does not recommend to install win XP.
But for your convenience, I am providing the web site from which you can download the XP drivers.
Please find below the link:

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?os=228&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=3548368&lang=en

NOTE:  Clicking the link may give an error indicating it is invalid.
	   Copy and paste the entire link in a new browser window.


If you need further assistance, please reply to this message and we will be happy to assist you further.
You may receive an e-mail survey regarding your e-mail support experience. We would appreciate your feedback.
For information on keeping your HP and Compaq products up and running, please visit our Web site
at:
http://www.hp.com/go/totalcare

 Sincerely,

Maestro
HP Total Care

This is what you will find on the link they sent.

	 Content starts here

»	  Alert! Your Model # May be Different. Identify Notebook Model to Resolve Issues Quickly
»	  Join the User Forum to Share Information & Find Solutions

  Microsoft Windows XP

		


	
Driver - Keyboard, Mouse and Input Devices																			 
	
»   	Synaptics Touchpad
				10-2007 				10.0.13.2 				
»   	Version:
				24.26M 			
																			 
	
»   	HP Quick Launch Buttons
				04-2007 				6.20 				- 				14.24M 			
																			 

	
Driver - Network
»   	HP Wireless Assistant
				11-2007 				3.00 				
»   	Version:
				3.32M 			
																			 

	
Driver - Printer
»   	HP Universal PostScript Print Driver
				07-2007 				60.71.546.0 				- 				16.49M 			
																			 

	
BIOS
»   	WinFlash for HP Notebook System BIOS (for Notebooks with AMDProcessors) - Microsoft Windows/Vista-Based
				11-2007 				F.22 				
»   	Version:
				3.09M 			
																			 

	
Software - Solutions
»   	LightScribe Host Software
				11-2007 				1.10.13.1 				
»   	Version:
				5.88M 			
																			 
	
»   	HP Software Update
				06-2007 				4.0.6 				
»   	Version:
				2.64M

I tried calling them after this, I have emailed them numerous times. I get the same response each time. If you notice there is no chipset drivers, no modem drivers, wlan, ethernet, sound, or video drivers.

No they are not the same drivers as the DV9000 as those where the first drivers I tried. But since it sounds like you all aren't interested maybe I should delete the links and let you people fend for yourself.

This post has been edited by fr33kachu: 08 December 2007 - 11:19 AM

[LUZR4LIFE]

fr33kachu, on Dec 8 2007, 12:10 PM, said:

This is the email response from HP

Thank you for contacting HP Total Care.

I apologize for the delay in response. Due to the increased volume of messages we receive daily, our response time has increased.

From your mail, I understand that you want to downgrade OS fro vista to win XP.Let me assist you in this regard.

HP does not recommend to install win XP.

But for your convenience, I am providing the web site from which you can download the XP drivers.

Please find below the link:

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?os=228&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=3548368&lang=en

NOTE:  Clicking the link may give an error indicating it is invalid.
	   Copy and paste the entire link in a new browser window.


If you need further assistance, please reply to this message and we will be happy to assist you further.

You may receive an e-mail survey regarding your e-mail support experience. We would appreciate your feedback.

For information on keeping your HP and Compaq products up and running, please visit our Web site
at:
http://www.hp.com/go/totalcare

 

Sincerely,

Maestro
HP Total Care

This is what you will find on the link they sent.

	 Content starts here

»	  Alert! Your Model # May be Different. Identify Notebook Model to Resolve Issues Quickly
»	  Join the User Forum to Share Information & Find Solutions

  Microsoft Windows XP

		


	
Driver - Keyboard, Mouse and Input Devices
				
Date
				
Version
				
Previous
				
Size
		
																			 
	
»   	Synaptics Touchpad
				10-2007 				10.0.13.2 				
»   	Version:
				24.26M 			
																			 
	
»   	HP Quick Launch Buttons
				04-2007 				6.20 				- 				14.24M 			
																			 

	
Driver - Network
				
Date
				
Version
				
Previous
				
Size
		
																			 
	
»   	HP Wireless Assistant
				11-2007 				3.00 				
»   	Version:
				3.32M 			
																			 

	
Driver - Printer
				
Date
				
Version
				
Previous
				
Size
		
																			 
	
»   	HP Universal PostScript Print Driver
				07-2007 				60.71.546.0 				- 				16.49M 			
																			 

	
BIOS
				
Date
				
Version
				
Previous
				
Size
		
																			 
	
»   	WinFlash for HP Notebook System BIOS (for Notebooks with AMDProcessors) - Microsoft Windows/Vista-Based
				11-2007 				F.22 				
»   	Version:
				3.09M 			
																			 

	
Software - Solutions
				
Date
				
Version
				
Previous
				
Size
		
																			 
	
»   	LightScribe Host Software
				11-2007 				1.10.13.1 				
»   	Version:
				5.88M 			
																			 
	
»   	HP Software Update
				06-2007 				4.0.6 				
»   	Version:
				2.64M

I tried calling them after this, I have emailed them numerous times. I get the same response each time. If you notice there is no chipset drivers, no modem drivers, wlan, ethernet, sound, or video drivers.


No they are not the same drivers as the DV9000. But since it sounds like you all aren't interested maybe I should delete the links and let you people fend for yourself.

I wouldn't say no one is interested, I was just trying to give some advice, I had to complain a lot to get my drivers. I had a HDD go out after 2 months and when they sent my new HDD they sent Vista drivers and I asked for XP. I don't ee why the are pushing Vista, must be a deal they made with MS.

[fr33kachu]

Quote

I wouldn't say no one is interested, I was just trying to give some advice, I had to complain a lot to get my drivers. I had a HDD go out after 2 months and when they sent my new HDD they sent Vista drivers and I asked for XP. I don't ee why the are pushing Vista, must be a deal they made with MS.

That was more directed at the rolling eyes smiley that was posted rather than you.

The post of the email and what was at the link they sent me was my response to you Luzr4life