trouble locating drivers for presario laptop...plz help

hi,

i'm converting my laptop from vista to xp and i'm having trouble getting the drivers for video, sound etc..

my laptop is a compaq presario f504eu mobo: Quanta 30d3 - compaq's website gives me a small list of drivers but none for sound and video

- i've also downloaded nvidia drivers but when i scroll a page it's all slowly refreshing so doesn't seem to have worked??

Istill have no sound...

- does anyone know where i can get a complete list of drivers?

Thanks in Advance
Andy

 

I now have sound and wireless assistant but in device manager i have 2 yellow "?!" next to "video controller (vga compatible)" and "unknown device"

so it looks like i still need a video driver - there's nothing on compaq's website after i put in my product number etc - there is a bios update driver which when i install says this bios is not for this mobo?? umm - can't contact compaq because the laptop is out of warrentee - unless i pay £15 (lovely company) - I only want to contact them to locate the appropiate driver how sad are these people.?

Anyone know where i can get the video driver?

Andy

 

thank you halo - got the video display up and running, no more dragging windows etc.

in device manager i have a yellow exclamation mark next to "nvidia nforce networking controller #2" and still a "?!" next to "unknown device"

- what should i do about these, any thoughts?

if anyones converting a f500 presario machine from vista to xp all the drivers are here http://www.laptopdrivers.net/compaq-presario-f500-laptop-download-vista-to-windows-xp-drivers/ with a list of compatible models etc.

Cheers
Andy

 

Hi

OK got rid of the errors with "unknown device"

One yellow ! still remains beside the networking controller #2, I tried as you said and uninstalled it in device manager and reboot, just reappears.

could it be the hp wireless assistant? that didn't work when vista was installed and it still doesn't work now w/ xp (but that's another post) - I did install the driver for the hp wireless assistant and it worked briefly then i had to revert back to the usb dongle to get a connection, so god knows.

In device manager it says "this device is not starting - code 10"

I'll check the hardware id and post back in a mo.

templeLobe

 

(1a3e09be-1e45-494b-9174-d7385bbf5)nvnet_dev0269

Networking controller #2

 

Hi again

I'm trying to get this working as the hp wireless assistant might work with this driver in place, if my line of thinking is right. This way i won't need the dongle to connect to the internet.