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    Windows 7 up and running on DV5T

    Discussion in 'HP' started by mason_721, Jan 10, 2009.

  1. mason_721

    mason_721 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I finally finished re-installing all my apps and whatnot, but Windows 7 Beta is quite nice!!! Very stable and fluid..not one issue as of yet.
     
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    Do you have the Bluray drive?
     
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    What drivers did you use? Vista driver or did you somehow find win7 drivers?
     
    toyota_scion_tc, Jan 10, 2009
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    Can you give us details please? as in what system configuration do you have, drives, etc. What version did you download, 32/64 bits, what drivers you used, please?

    Thanks ;)
     
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    I used the 64-bit version I got off of my MSDN subscription. As many people have stated in numerous blogs, the installation went extremely easy. Only a couple devices were not installed, however I right-clicked them, and pointed the update driver to a copy of the SW_Setup folder I copied, and it found the drivers.

    I used all of the drivers from the SW_Setup folder, as well as a couple of the updated ones for the quicktouch and bluetooth from HP's website.

    I also pulled down the newest driver from nVidia for the 9600gt.
     

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    hi, so far almost my drivers can install except the finger, i cannot install Digital Persona and Finger driver, any suggest ?
     
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    I installed the driver first, from the SW_SETUP/Drivers folder, then I installed the digital persona software. Everything worked fine for me
     
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    How did you load the DP software? It came with my Vista system but don't see how to re-install it on my 7 partition.
     
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    Did you use vista drivers?
     
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    i did the same thing, but it didnt let me install >.<, mess around few times and got MFT error =.=, i have to format and reinstall =.=

    edit : used new drivers from hp and it works :D
     
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    I did the same thing but have two items that can't find the driver software

    PCI Data Acquisition Signal Processing Control Unit
    SM Bus Controller
     
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    From within Device Manager > update Driver > search my computer> point at your Vista installations SWSetup folder/include subfolders in search.

    Worked for me to install both of those drivers.

    Now if I could find the fingerprint software...
     
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    Got it, took me a minute to figure it out. I knew the Intel chipset driver had issue installing so I went to the SWsetup for that and under the vista subfolder fixed both driver issues. :)
     
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    The fingerprint software is under Sw_Setup\Drivers\Misc5 for the driver software
    ...and the actual Digital Persona is under Sw_Setup\DPFPR
     
    mason_721, Jan 11, 2009
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