pikapikapi Posted December 2, 2007 Share Posted December 2, 2007 Anyone here who got the laptop and was successful downgrading back to XP? They don't have XP drivers for the video card on $449 HP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pikapikapi Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 already checked nvidia's site. nothing there listed for this card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bpr Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 Try again. If it is the 7150, use the following for Option 1 manually: Product Type: nForceProduct Series: nForce 6 SeriesProduct: nForce 630i/GeForce 7150Operating System: Windows XP 32-BitLanguage: English(?):) This is what you should find when you press 'Search': nForce 630i / GeForce 7150 nForce 630i / GeForce 7100 nForce 610i / GeForce 7050 Version: 16.08 Release Date: October 12, 2007 Operating System: Windows XP 32-Bit Language: U.S. English File Size: 86.5 MB ***Under Product Type: GeForceGoYou will get this message at the bottom. Read carefully: Be sure to check the list of supported notebook manufacturers and models to ensure compatibility after we redirect you to the driver download page. The GeForce Go mobile GPU use drivers that have been customized to support hot key functions, power management functions, lid close and suspend/resume behavior that are normally found in notebooks. The reference desktop graphic drivers that are provided by NVIDIA on our driver downloads page do not include these custom features. For this reason, the NVIDIA Forceware NVIDIA graphics display drivers will not install on most Geforce and Quadro family of mobile GPU's. Some newer laptops have been designed to work with our drivers. For more information click here. You might want to look into that last part. The first part of my post might be for 'DESKTOP' computers and the GeForceGo for 'NOTEBOOKS'. Please read carefully before trying this. If I get time, I will look into it myself, but have been busy. Hope it works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pikapikapi Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 Try again. If it is the 7150, use the following for Option 1 manually: Product Type: nForceProduct Series: nForce 6 SeriesProduct: nForce 630i/GeForce 7150Operating System: Windows XP 32-BitLanguage: English(?):) This is what you should find when you press 'Search': nForce 630i / GeForce 7150 nForce 630i / GeForce 7100 nForce 610i / GeForce 7050 Version: 16.08 Release Date: October 12, 2007 Operating System: Windows XP 32-Bit Language: U.S. English File Size: 86.5 MB ***Under Product Type: GeForceGoYou will get this message at the bottom. Read carefully: Be sure to check the list of supported notebook manufacturers and models to ensure compatibility after we redirect you to the driver download page. The GeForce Go mobile GPU use drivers that have been customized to support hot key functions, power management functions, lid close and suspend/resume behavior that are normally found in notebooks. The reference desktop graphic drivers that are provided by NVIDIA on our driver downloads page do not include these custom features. For this reason, the NVIDIA Forceware NVIDIA graphics display drivers will not install on most Geforce and Quadro family of mobile GPU's. Some newer laptops have been designed to work with our drivers. For more information click here. You might want to look into that last part. The first part of my post might be for 'DESKTOP' computers and the GeForceGo for 'NOTEBOOKS'. Please read carefully before trying this. If I get time, I will look into it myself, but have been busy. Hope it works. Its the 6150, not 7150. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pikapikapi Posted December 7, 2007 Share Posted December 7, 2007 yup, got it to work finally. Bastards at HP phone support and online chat support are all liers. Everyone told me that my laptop wouldn't work If i installed xp. Funny how hp hides their xp drivers. bastards! took me 5 minutes to load vista, now it takes under a minute to load xp. much happier. still waiting for the $55 gift card in the mail so i can upgrade to 2gb. pm me if you need any help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigjimslade Posted December 8, 2007 Share Posted December 8, 2007 CompUSA sold; stores to close http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa/latestnews/stories/wfaa071208_wz_compusa.7b17c7e3.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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