if U buy an hp then forget driver support

I bought an hp dv2899ee , which was top of the line , less than one year ago , it had vista home premium 32 bit on it , was happy at the time with this more than $1400 PC , till I started to look for drivers support , I found all drivers support were at least one year behind .
Now come the biggest problem , after I had enough from windows vista I decided to down grade it to XP pro , but found hp doesn't support them any more , well thought they might have a reason not going back , so I waited till windows 7 was released , and what a shock when I found hp saying they R not supporting the drivers for that window too [ http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...48&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&lang=en&product=3722289 ] .
So if U ever decide to buy an hp , never expect a backup for your PC no matter what U pay for it .
I think hp is losing their reputation faster than they expect , just check for that on net .

 

So why don't you install Vista drivers on Win7? They will work fine.

 

Don't worry about it too much. Windows 7 should be able to grab most of the drivers through the Internet. And if not, most Vista drivers should work just fine.

 

x3 - vista drivers for win 7 will work. i've also used win xp drivers for vista and they worked too.

 

you can use vista drivers and also, you can find the most up to date drivers on the manufacturer (of the component) websites

 

what does 'backup' have to do with a user who is unable to download drivers for XP, Vista, or Win7?? None of this is really HPs fault.

 

Backup as in HP "backs up" the end user in future upgrades by officially supporting a new OS. Not "backup" as in "oh crap where'd my data go?"

 

It's always been common knowledge that HP (and some other manufactures) did not support XP on any machine that had Vista installed on it originally. The back-up and support that exist now in some of those companies are only there because of the initial backlash some 3 years ago when Vista came out and everyone that knew better (people that knew they could put XP on their machine instead of keeping Vista if they didn't like it) complained to the companies about it. This isn't news, in fact it's pretty much expected that if you have Vista installed on an HP, you will have to search HARD for XP drivers.
As everyone who posted before me as stated, Vista Drivers will work in Windows 7. Bear in mind that if the driver isn't signed, Windows 7 may reject it, but you can just restart the computer and hit F8 and then select to start in Driver compatibility mode and install the driver again. It will accept it then.

 

The days of laptops containing exotic components that require exotic device drivers are long past.

It's trivially easy to find device drivers for laptop hardware, from XP through to Win7. In most (all?) cases, desktop device drivers are more than sufficient to run laptop hardware.

True, a user does have to search past the end of their nose, but is it really all that hard?

Any user that thinks they have the skills necessary to downgrade an OS but are unable to find device drivers are fooling themselves.

 

its not only the drivers , its other softwares for webcam , CD/DVD burning and labeling , quick play etc :confused2:

 

show me how smart U R and help me to find the drivers and preinstalled softwares to operate the quick play , webcam and other accessories for the dv2899ee

 

thanks RemyL75, I will do that , thanks

 

Or just use the drivers for the dv4.

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?os=4062&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&lang=en&product=3745839

 

HP has a driver listed for Windows 7 x32 and x64.
You can upgrade to Windows 7. HP has no obligation to support operating systems other than the OS that was installed when sold.

 

HP has no obligation to support anything. Besides, they don't even *make* the laptops, they just design them and have them built by the little chinese people.

You bought a complex and expensive piece of hardware. It's *YOUR* job to get the most of it. If you're expecting anyone to spoonfeed you indications, well, that just won't happen, i'm sorry.

 

a) if you have an intel based machine, get updated drivers from intel.
b) if you have an amd based machine, get updated drivers from amd.
c) if you have ati chipsets or video, get updated drivers from ati/amd.
d) if you have nvidia chipsets or video, get updated drivers from nvidia
e) if you have realtek sound or networking, get updated drivers from realtek
f) if you have a lightscribe drive, get updated lightscribe drivers from lightscribe.

And so on.

As far as HP software, you will need to invest some time in for formerly top-of-the-line laptop to discover the most current XP (vista/win7) versions of that software. Then you will need to go to hp.com to actually download the software.

There is very little 'HP Software' that can't be replaced and IMPROVED on with freeware/shareware. A little research on your part is necessary to find these.

I will bet however that if you actually invest the research time to find HP software, you will find one or three or ten lists that document all of the software, other users favorite alternatives, as well as easy-to-click-on download links.

Any questions?

 

I have an DV2500 which is older generation than yours Ahmed and i ran Win7 on it no problems. Vista drivers work for Windows 7.

What was even surprising, everything worked without drivers with Windows 7. The standard drivers Windows 7 installs is enough to make it fully functional.

The webcam, burning software and quickplay installation files are located in your C:/SWsetup folder

 

Some of the Pre-installed software that was on your machine can be found on the same page that the Vista drivers are on.

 

And, you can copy the SwSetup folder, which has all of the original software, most of which should work in win7

 

Thanks to U newsposter , RemyL75 , And many thanks to U flipfire .