Downgrade to XP.

I recently have downgraded by HP notebook from Vista to XP. Everything has gone smoothly and all drivers have been installed except for the graphics ones. This is because it cant find the graphics card. I opened up dxdiag and in the display section, under device there is nothing only n/a, n/a. My notebook is a HP Pavilion dv6000. I have the drivers to update but how do i get them to detect the graphics card?

Thanks =]
Ian

 

Is it delicated or IGP?

 

lol you dont have any idea what graphics card your laptop has? quite silly..

 

Haha sorry, bit of a mindless late night post =]

The driver i was told to download by HP was

http://www.x-drivers.com/component/option,com_remository/func,fileinfo/id,23147

However when trying to installl it says it can't locate any drivers that are compatible with my current hardware.

 

can we have an auto-reply to any post with "downgrade" and "xp" in it, that is just a very big and fat WHY?!

 

I tried Xp for a week but i was glad to get back to Vista it`s so much nicer.

 

Vista is horrible!

 

Would just like to know why Xp isn't detecting my graphics card.

 

HP has the specs of this laptop. I believe it's an nVidia 6150. Does it show under Hardware?

 

1. The OS is from 2001
2. Why would it "detect" it?
3. It's up to your to know what you are doing before you install the OS
4. XP doesnt detect the hardware without having a driver. The only thing it can give you is hardware id and so on

 

would Xp SP3 not detect it?

 

Most likely not, i've only tried where it was OK to use, with some intelgrated card from before the war. He doesnt even inform us which model he has, only the series... He couldnt possibly provide worse help for us to help him. He should go with Vista.

 

I did think i knew what i was doing i had all the drivers ready to go, but for some reason its not detecting it. Could it be that i have the wrong drivers? It should work if i have the right ones right?

 

Jeez, okay right click my computer in start menu, properties, hardware, device manager, find your gfx card, if you dont have driver its most likely displayed as VGA Device or something, right click it, properties, details, from drop down select hardware id and tell us what it says

 

spec:

# AMD Turion 64, dual core processor
# 2 GB DDR2 memory
# 15.4″ WXGA High-Definition HP BrightView Widescreen Display (1280 x 800)
# 256MB NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) Go 7200
# 160GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive

 

Have you installed the motherboard chipset drivers

 

All that i can find in device manager is Video Controller ( VGA Compatible ) is this it?

 

Yes, tell us the hardware ID's.. It's all we need

 

I have the chipset drivers when i double click, they load but dont go to setup screen like the others do.

 

Hardware Id's:

PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0531&SUBSYS_30CF103C&REV_A2
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0531&SUBSYS_30CF103C
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0531&CC_030000
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0531&CC_0300

 

In the device manager its also missing drivers for:

Coprocessor
Ethernet Controller
SM Bus Controller

 

Okay im quite unsure on these one, seems like a ty GPU.
Anyway try these:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_notebook_winxp_179.48_beta.html

You are missing ethernet driver lol.. I think you are missing chipset.. Intel or AMD?

 

I have tried that and it gave me the same error. Could it be the fact the chipset drivers aren't installing properly?

 

Try and add me on msn, man and i'll help you out there. You can see it in my profile.

 

Surely it has to be. In a description for the chipset driver it also mentions
'Note: This package provides the driver for the NVIDIA nForce Chipset and Network Controller '

Which would explain why the other ones i mentioned above are missing?

 

HP should have drivers for both the graphics card as well as the chipset. Have you tried those?
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?os=228&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&lang=en&product=3224052

 

After some TeamViewer, we figured it out

 

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