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    HP 6602AU doesn't support XP drivers

    Discussion in 'HP' started by karthik3186, Nov 19, 2007.

  1. karthik3186

    karthik3186 Newbie

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    Hi all,

    Last month I bought a HP 6602AU which came with Vista home premium pre-installed. They come with all this trial edition softwares, and somehow I personally feel that vista is running slow in my system. Also eclipse was crashing very frequently in Vista. So I took an audacious step and installed XP only to find that there are no compatible XP drivers for HP 6602. I hunted for almost a day and found nothing. I seriously want to know what they gain by this. Shouldn't the OS installation be the customers' choice. I accept that I should have been carefull enough before buying. But still I feel its really bad on HP not to support XP drivers.
    Has anyone faced a similar situation and if so what did they do for getting XP up and running in such vista-tied models. Please help me out on this!

    -Thanks
    Karthik
     
    karthik3186, Nov 19, 2007
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  2. miner

    miner Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Please read this thread...
    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=186409
    That should help you installing the XP drivers for the dv6500(dv6600) series AMD based notebooks. HP wont support XP and its been their stated policy for the consumer notebooks. They still do support XP with their business models. But yeah, its a bad decision and in some ways good as well since Vista is more likely here to stay and its the way the market works.
     
    miner, Nov 19, 2007
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  3. gridtalker

    gridtalker Notebook Virtuoso

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    do search on this forum there are plenty of threads that show you how to install xp and what drivers to use
     
    gridtalker, Nov 19, 2007
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