CQ50-139NR INTEL HD AUDIO HDMI xp driver

Hello all. OK. Have my new CQ50-139NR 100% singing with XP PRO. Works fast and sweet. Everythings seems to work perfect. Just the last item is the 2nd sound driver. Under Vista is showed both the Conexant 221 and the INTEL HD AUDIO HDMI. I have the xp for the Conexant, not the INTEL. A link would be great if someone has it. Thanks in advance!

 

Try here- http://www.xpvistaworld.com/intel_r_high_definition_audio_hdmi_placeholder_hdmi_hd_audio_hdmi_400.htm

If that doesn't work, check HP's site (if you haven't) and try Intel's site after that. If neither of those help, I'm sure the same device is used on other notebooks and you may be able to find the driver on another company's website.

I'm curious- what's your overall opinion of the CQ50-139NR? Quality, looks and performance? How did it perform with Vista Home Basic (the pre-installed O/S)?

From what I've seen and read, it looks like a great deal. Did you get it for $298, which is supposedly the sale price?

 

I got the one for $499.00 at Officemax. It has 3 gig ram and 250gh hd and vista home pre std. The XP PRO is much faster. I did not do a vista clean load without all the compaq junk, but the compaq load vs the xp clean is night and day. That and my customer needs xp not vista.

BTW, the link you have works to the site but the file download is BAD!

I did find the file here fyi:

biostar-usa.com/mbdownloads.asp?model=945GZ%20MICRO%20775%20SE
ftp.biostar-usa.com/drivers/Video/WINVISTA_1523.EXE

I will check it and see if it works.




I have looked at INTEL, they say just install the 4 series express pack, did that, and compaq hp says it is std in vista so no joy there. I have thought about loading vista back on and then using a driver backup program and trying that. But all seems to work fine as is so unless I just find the one driver, I think I will just live with it not working.

 

Your HDMI audio driver is included in Intel Video driver, it should be automatically installed if you had installed MS-UAA before. All you need to do is reinstalling your Video driver.

 

I have the MS-UAA. Great. I will try the Video driver again. Thanks. BTW, the Vista sound driver did not work.

Thanks again!

 

Butter! Perfect. That worked. The intel driver I used the 1st time must have been old. I re-ran the chipset and then the video and bingo! Thanks again for the help!

 

Glad I can help you.

 

Hello, I recently picked up the same laptop.
I'm trying to downgrade from Vista and get a blue screen when I put in my XP install disk and try to boot up. (Looks to be related to missing SATA drivers.)
Just wondering how people are getting around this as HP is making it very difficult to put XP on these machines.
Thanks for any help!

 

You need the SATA driver for XP to boot. You can get it here:

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Det...All&OSFullName=All Operating Systems&lang=eng

You will need a USB floppy drive to get going. You can get one anywhere like staples etc. When you do, be sure you know the list will only display about 4 of the drivers when you first boot up and look on the disk. Go UP the list to get the right one for our chipset. It took me hours thinking there were only the 4 listed as I did not look up the list!

Then you boot will go fine. Then, google CQ50 and you will find the rest of the drivers from HP forum lists that do work.

 

You can also "slipstream" the driver into your XP disk with nLite or a similar program, I'm sure it's pretty well documented but if you have questions about that feel free to ask. Also at least for a while Intel had a .exe version of their video driver posted that was missing the .INF file for the HDMI audio, the ZIP version was fine though so that may have been your issue.