Drivers problem while instaling XP on dv9428nr

Hi, I bought a HP Pavilion dv9428nr with windows vista. I didn't like it(the os) so i've decided to switch to xp pro. I wasn't aware of the drivers problem. I simply formated the disk c and instaled xp. Now I have a long list of unknown hardware. I've read many guides but I don't know which to follow. I'm really confused Can someone tell me what to do? I'm afraid my notebook will be useless. (I still have the recovery partition, maybe it'll help)

Sorry for my english, it isn't my mother language.

 

obviously your vista drivers won't work under xp. So go to your HP Support And Driver Download site, instead of choosing Vista as your OS, choose XP now, then it will list the drivers for your laptop.

here, already found it for you
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?os=228&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=3439691&lang=en

only came out couple drivers for xp... choose wisely.

 

These drivers should work for your system...
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?os=228&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=3224049&lang=en

Remember to install the MS UAA audio drivers before trying to install the Conexant modem/audio drivers.

 

Thank you

miner should I istall all of those drivers? Will the remote and quick play buttons work?

 

You dont need to install all the drivers. Just the ones you need. The most important ones would be the chipset, graphics, wlan, MS UAA, audio, modem, media card reader, AMD processor driver and the Quicklaunch buttons driver.

The optional ones are the Bluetooth, TV Tuner and webcam. Install these only if you have any of these devices in your system.

The quicklaunch button software will install the necessary driver for the quickplay buttons although you will have to download the Quickplay software(version 2). Search the web for this since HP does not offer this as a download. The remote shouldnt need any extra drivers.

 

This advice works perfectly. If you look on the bottom of the laptop, you will see that HP has not been smart enough to remove the tags. It calls itself HP DV9000. After installing the drivers, I have no unidentified devices and XP SP2 is running perfectly.

The problem I am having now is that the "second drive" on what they claim is a 'Dual Drive' system, cannot be formatted by Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty) or Ubuntu 7.10 Tribe -5 (Gutsy). It reports some weird error message about incorrect superblock and/or something strange about RAID/LVM error. What kind of drive is this? It is not really two separate physical drives is it?

Bob

 

Bob,

Yep, it is TWO physical drives. We just got in a new dv9824nr for a salesman and I opened it up and looked and it has 2 SATA physical drives. One was formatted with Vista and I just blew it away and I'm installing XP Pro on it, and the other is unformatted, (which I think is weird) but I'm looking for a RAID driver for the SATA disks. I want to install RAID 1 on the system but I can't seem to find SATA drivers that will work.

Any one got any suggestions or links to some SATA RAID drivers?