The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Vista Drivers

    Discussion in 'HP' started by denmick, Dec 28, 2006.

  1. denmick

    denmick Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    212
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Are All the manufactures going to have vista drivers available for printers video cards and the rest of the cards out there when vista operating system comes out.
     
    denmick, Dec 28, 2006
    #1
  2. gridtalker

    gridtalker Notebook Virtuoso

    Reputations:
    18
    Messages:
    2,976
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0


    Most of them should
     
    gridtalker, Dec 28, 2006
    #2
  3. JadedRaverLA

    JadedRaverLA Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    273
    Messages:
    724
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    If they are newer models, you should expect drivers to be available around Vista's release date. If they are older, the manufacturer might not bother. But Vista has built-in support for a huge number of devices anyway... I wouldn't expect major problems with your devices.
     
    JadedRaverLA, Dec 28, 2006
    #3
  4. JM

    JM Mr. Misanthrope NBR Reviewer

    Reputations:
    4,370
    Messages:
    2,182
    Likes Received:
    8
    Trophy Points:
    56
    Indeed.

    I'm currently running Vista on all three of my computers, and they all work fine.

    Printer as well. Vista installed the drivers for it automatically.
     
    JM, Dec 28, 2006
    #4
  5. ThunderRiver

    ThunderRiver Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    2
    Messages:
    138
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Most certainly, video card drivers and etc. HP, for example, will release most drivers online.

    The more I look into the issue, the more I am concerned with features like QuickPlay. That's something that HP most likely will not bother to release to all existing HP users. But you know..next time, if i drop by Best Buy or Office Max, I am going to bring a portable drive...just to copy that QuickPlay off the demo machines.
     
    ThunderRiver, Dec 28, 2006
    #5
  6. spatialanomaly

    spatialanomaly Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    26
    Messages:
    218
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Quickplay 2.1/2.3 works fine under Vista. NVidia drivers are available from Laptopvideo2go.com. Many printers are natively supported by Vista, but there are sure to be some that won't be covered. Such is the case with a a major OS update. Just be thankful it isn't W98/XP redux...

    Of course, all of the above applies only to the X86 version. If you choose to go 64bit, be prepared for some difficulties.
     
    spatialanomaly, Dec 29, 2006
    #6