Trying To Install Win XP Pro On A New HP dv9000

i've just bought hp pavilion dv9428nr and successfully installed win xp on it (vista is a drag). i have a major issue with the drivers. hp website driver support is terrible, couldn't find anything there. i can't set up graphics, audio, network + i have a whole bunch of unrecognized hardware in device manager. does anyone know which and where can i find the appropriate drivers? (for winxp)
thank you so much

Go here and see what you can find. Check the actual model number carefully:

http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/support.html?pageDisplay=support&jumpid=re_R329_prodexp%2Fhhoslp%2Fsplit%2Fsupport

yeah man, i've checked hp site already. that's the point - hp website offers complete drivers only for windows vista (which can't be used on winxp). i have to look for drivers which are not intended exactly for my hardware (but work on winxp). user absolutezero7 had a similar issue which he has solved successfully, but i got no answer from him so far. do you guys know if my model dv9428 has similar hadrware as dv9000, or anything like that? any ideas?

So what is the Device Manger showing? Are you running XP Pro?

yes i'm runnig winxp pro (sp2 integrated).
device manager is showing:
unknown network device
unknown vga card
unknown audio device
unknown coprocessor
unknown .....

Contact HP support by phone...

Hey, Ive got myself into a real pickle

I got the HP DV9428nr and got tired of the slow running, incompatible-with-anything Vista Home premium so I formatted that partition and installed XP professional instead. Sadly, apart from obviously losing my drivers, for which I'm now downlaoding them from the Site, I also no longer have access to my HP recovery partition.

I figured all it required was pressing F11 at startup to access the console. Yet, after installing XP, that doesn't work. Also I can aceess that partition but it only has an empty folder i.e. Recovery and 6GB filled and yet there is nothing in it. So I've lost my Litescribesoftware, all my drivers and Hp support stuff, not to mention my ability to return to Vista if I wanted to

Any help?

I'm now downloading the drivers to my PC and the one that I can find nowhere is that to the sound card.

Any help - Drivers wise, I mean?

Search for Realtek sound drivers and try one of those

Thanks man. i found a couple of drivers and caused my soundcard to auto install one. But its wierd, I realised my thing was Altec lansing and I went out looking. Its amazing, its almost impossible to find an XP driver for it anywhere. Finally after the sound issue was solved, it claimed to be Conexant high definition audio...How is that the case?

Share that driver

Altec Lansing is just the speaker system... the audio card is made by someone else.

Now if you would be so kind as to share the driver that finally worked for you, I think quite a few of us would be in your debt.

I can't find a driver that will work anywhere.

Sound

I used the DV9093ea off the HP site. (XP drivers) First the universal driver, then the Conexant driver. I have a DV9317cl. I have XP Pro running but can't find the NIC card driver (wireless net is working), plus it shows coprocessor needs a driver? and SM Bus? any ideas out there??

Thanks all!!

this might help

hi,

I bought a hp pavilion dv9428ca 2 days ago ,installed xp pro ,couldent find the drivers for graphics ,internet working and sound (and a lot of other stuff but i assume that is most important).For all of that i used the xp drivers for hp pavilion dv9000 and it seems to work fine(graphics, sound ...)

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?os=228&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=1842189<=en

the link abovw helped me (the drivers on it work great with my model) so it maybe can help u.

A little help with this.

I have successfully installed everything but the SATA drivers.
I have downloaded nLite and am prepared to re-install after slipstreaming the SATA drivers in but have a major problem.
The only ones I can find extract to an IMA file which i can not add to nLite. Or can I ??
I have a pavilion dv9000 as per this post.
Please help by either posting a link to a set of drivers I can load through nLite or how can I add the IMA to nLite. !!.
Thanks.
Jacqui.

In order to get the audio drivers to work with XP I had to get service pack 2 first. Then install
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...n&cc=us&dlc=en&product=1842189&os=228&lang=en

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...n&cc=us&dlc=en&product=1842189&os=228&lang=en

In that order, make sure you restart whenever it asks you to.

I'm trying to dual boot XP x64 on a friend's dv9535nr which came preloaded with Vista. It has the updated BIOS so I can't disable native SATA support to let XP see the drives.

I've seen where someone has gotten the chipset drivers onto a floppy and installed them via the F6 method, but I can't find or figure out how to get them on a floppy. I downloaded the Intel® Matrix Storage Manager for the GM965 Chipset (the one in the laptop) but it's a EXE file and will only install on that laptop, so I haven't been able to extract the drivers.

Does anyone have any info that might help me? Thanks in advance.


PS, I have already done this once to my own personal dv9230us, but it has the older BIOS that played nice and let me disable the native SATA.

There is some good work going on in this thread. I will remember this issue for I see I will stumble on it myself one day.

I know this thread is a little old but I am curious if anyone has gotten Lightscribe to work... I have tried every driver I could find but the software refuses to see the drive.

You could start your own thread and post your computer specs in your user profile

quick question for ya

what driver did you use to make unknown coprocessor go away?