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    HP 8510p/w - Why is the HP site so completely bare of drivers?

    Discussion in 'HP Business Class Notebooks' started by br0adband, Dec 23, 2010.

  1. br0adband

    br0adband Notebook Guru

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    I've got an HP 8510p (same hardware as the 8510w except for the Quadro in it, the 8510p has the ATI HD 2600) and I'm curious about why HP seems to have almost nothing available for these two machines. I go to their support pages and find basically nothing of any use for updated drivers (especially not 64 bit stuff).

    Anybody have any clue as to why HP just has "Windows 2000" listed - and yes I realize the drivers actually available when you dig into that are XP capable but, even so... that's just weird. It's almost like they dismissed these machines and don't wish to have much to do with them. I know they're a few years old nowadays, but geez, they're still solid machines, I would expect something better from HP in that regard.

    I plan to do a clean Windows 7 Professional x64 installation tomorrow (I've done it recently already) and I know all the hardware is already supported but even so, it's just odd.

    Just curious...
     
    br0adband, Dec 23, 2010
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    RainMotorsports Formerly ClutchX2

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  3. br0adband

    br0adband Notebook Guru

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    A-HA! Figured out the issue (which seems stupid). If you go to 24/7 Online support for HP's Home and Home Office Products - HP Customer Care (United States - English) and enter 8510p in the box to search, you get the standard HP Customer Care site - seems a bit odd but, apparently HP really does completely differentiate the consumer products from Business class stuff since the link you provided is to an entirely different page.

    My fault, my fault, hadn't been paying attention (senior moment, even though I'm in my mid-40s...). I can't imagine why they list anything on the Customer Care site for this instead of just providing a link over to the Business Support side.

    Oh well, regardless, the issue is resolved, many thanks for the slap upside the head, so to speak.

    Happy holidays...
     
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  4. RainMotorsports

    RainMotorsports Formerly ClutchX2

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    I can see where you got lost now. Interesting that they do that to you. Oh well the notebook seems very well supported for 7 so good luck with your setup.
     
    RainMotorsports, Dec 23, 2010
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