Fresh WinXP install on V2000Z

A couple of days ago I did a fresh install of WinXP on my week-old V2000Z. I did not receive any CDs with the laptop, but HP agreed to send me a WinXP disc and a driver disc since I do not have a burner in the laptop to make recovery CDs (see http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=46949 ).

I got the HP-branded winXP disc but have not yet received the drivers disk. I went ahead with the install anyway. I deleted the main and recovery (7.5 GB!) partitions using diskpart and did a fresh install on a new partition using the whole drive. An interesting note... the installer never asked me for my product key. Since the disk is HP branded there must be custom code in the installer to make sure that it's being put on an HP/Compaq product.

Once windows was done, I installed the following drivers that I had downloaded off the HP support website and had put on a USB drive:

sp24939.exe: Synaptics Touchpad v. 7.5 (old version, new version had scrolling problems with Firefox)
sp31090.exe: Conexant Modem driver
sp30379.exe: Broadcom wireless driver
sp29776.exe: Bluetooth support software
sp30753.exe: Media card reader driver
sp30046.exe: System enhancements
sp30513.exe: Help and support

I then ran windows update and performed all critical updates. I ran it again and under hardware it found drivers for the Conexant sound card (which was not on the HP site... the audio driver listed there is just some registry tweak, not the actual driver), and an updated broadcom driver. There was one other driver it found which was not on the HP site, unfortunately I can't remember was it is right now (notebook is at home).

I then ran Windows Update again and installed the .NET framework 2.0. This is required for the ATI catalyst drivers.

I then installed the ATI catalyst drivers that I had downloaded from the ATI website. I also downloaded the X200 chipset SMbus driver from the ATI site and installed that as well.

At this point, everything was installed and running like a champ. With one exception... there is an uninstalled "Mass Storage Controller" in the device manager... I am thinking that this has to do with the memory card reader. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the compaq card reader driver but to no avail. If anyone has suggestions about this, I would be glad to hear them. I'm hoping that whenever I get the driver CD in the mail, the correct driver will be on it.

 

Davin,

Glad you got your CD's. I still haven't received mine yet, and even called HP up again last Friday. They said I would have them in a couple days. Oh well.

Jonestown

 

the expanded parts are the things you should have for the card reader (except for the SCSI controller of course)? Do you have them all?

 

I'm going from memory here, but I know for a fact that the SD controller is there, and I assume that the 1394 is there, since there was a 1394 net adapter listed when I set up networking. The PCMCIA driver is fine, I successfuly used a card last night.

I think that I am missing the FlashMedia controller entry. That must be what the "mass storage controller" is. From doing a quick google search, it looks like there are several sources for drivers for the pciXX21 flashmedia controller out there, I will try one of those tonight.

 

It's fixed!

I went to the Acer website and downloaded the card reader driver for the Aspire 5020 series. They both use TI xx21 series card reader chips. I clicked on "update driver" on the mass storage controller in the device manager, pointed it to the deepest folder in the Acer driver zip archive and voila! It worked.

 

I did the same thing and got everything working except the audio... For some reason it wont find a driver that works for the multimedia audio controller. Ive tried looking for drivers online, but have had no luck.

Edit: Nevermind. I am stupid. Forgot to go to get windows updates from windowsupdate.com Sure enough there are drivers there for the modem and the sound card. Its sounding good, and moving fast now!