HP DV6624 XP Drivers

[geokilla]

Does anyone know where I can locate drivers for the HP DV6624 for Windows XP? I checked HP's site and all they have are Vista drivers. I found some drivers, but I'm missing a lot of the other drivers. The drivers that I need are:

RealtekHD Audio Driver for XP.

Synaptics Touchpad Drivers. New Driver Old Driver

Mobile Intel 965 Express Chipset Drivers

Intel Chipset Installation Utility for ICH8 and Intel Wireless Driver. Also, if I have the Chipset drivers, do I need the Wireless driver?

HP-21 for TS-L802 Optical Drive

There's probably more that I'm missing. Driver Page for Vista


The problem is that when I try to boot into Windows, all I get is the HP Recovery Program. When I try to recover the program, an error occurs "Error: 0x400 100 1300000 1002. If this issue continues, please contact HP support." If I try to boot into Safe Mode, well I can't boot into safe mode. Holding F8 does nothing and neither does F11 when I boot up the laptop.. Sometimes, all I'd get is a long beep code from the BIOS that won't go away unless I turn the laptop off.

 

[mpilchfamily]

So this is a system that originally came with Vista right? If thats the case then you won't be able to put XP on it. The manufacture doesn't offer XP drivers for laptops that come with Vista. You may get lucky and find a genreic driver of some kind but i wouldn't count on it.

 

[corkyg]

mpilch is correct. HP no longer supports XP for those series laptops sold with Vista.

HP

Your best bet is to restore to original Vista and then wait for Win7 - or try the work arounds that may or may not work on all models of the dv6000 series.

 

[geokilla]

Yea, the laptop came with Vista. However, the thing is now I can't even attempt to Restore the computer. According to HP's site, I should be able to launch the system recovery just fine. However, for some reasons, Step 5 and 7 are skipped and it goes straight to step 8 which then says:

Error: 0x400 100 1300000 1002. If this issue continues, please contact HP support.

I'm trying to find the Generic drivers, and I've found some of them, but I'm lacking the ones that I posted in the first post.

 

[corkyg]

What you may find easiest is to format the disk, borrow a Vista disk and use your product key, which should be on a decal on the bottom of your HP.

You may be able to get a copy of the Restore Partition on a CDR from HP for S/H. Have you contacted H-P Support as indicated in the error message?

 

[WackyDan]

The OEM key on the COA sticker on the machine will not work with anything but an HP preload of Vista. INstalling from another disk will not help here.

 

[geokilla]

Hmm, I think the hard drive might be dead. Tried to install Windows XP, and XP says it can't find a hard drive. I'm runing the SEATOOLS Long Check right now and see what it says. If it says everything is fine, then I'm gonna try and install Vista.

Btw, the hard drive is a Fujitsu 160GB.

Edit: Vista's up and running now...

 

[benjamat]

No the hard drive is not dead.

When I try to install a good copy of windows xp on an HP laptop it will always hang after F8 with the message, cannot locate hard drive.

I bought a laptop in Thailand and when back in uk discovered it was pirate xp.

I am trying to install genuine windows xp but always same nessage about hard drive.

Formatting HD with various different tools did nothing to change the issue.

I suspect that the bios is designating the hard drive as something other than C: and only genuine HP software can handle this. Just my guess. But either way a normal windows installation will fail to find the hard disk.

HP does not offer recovery or new disks for this.

Pirate xp installs fine but of course I have no idea how it does this.

 

[IlllI]

Originally posted by: benjamat
No the hard drive is not dead.

When I try to install a good copy of windows xp on an HP laptop it will always hang after F8 with the message, cannot locate hard drive.

I bought a laptop in Thailand and when back in uk discovered it was pirate xp.

I am trying to install genuine windows xp but always same nessage about hard drive.

Formatting HD with various different tools did nothing to change the issue.

I suspect that the bios is designating the hard drive as something other than C: and only genuine HP software can handle this. Just my guess. But either way a normal windows installation will fail to find the hard disk.

HP does not offer recovery or new disks for this.

Pirate xp installs fine but of course I have no idea how it does this.

xp does not come with any sata drivers built in. the oem xp from hp would contain the appropriate drivers but since yours didn't come with that you'd have to disable achi in bios. do that will and you should be able to install xp

 

[armstrda]

It's not the SATA drivers, it's AHCI that it's missing... as for putting XP on it, you definitely can, but you might not get the HP "gravy" additions (fingerprint scanner, quick launch buttons, etc) but you can definitely use OEM drivers from the manufacturer. Just find out exactly what parts you have and go to Intel's site for their drivers / broadcom for theirs (even though most of those should be included in windows updates) / etc.

As for the install, you need to either take your SATA controller out of AHCI mode, or download the storage matrix driver for Intel's ICH. This should do: http://downloadcenter.intel.co...809&OSFullName=Windows*+XP+Professional&lang=eng&strOSs=44&submit=Go!

Also, what wireless chip do you have?