Vista to XP problems

Hey guys, have a couple problems-

Recently switched from Vista to XP, and am having some driver issues.

I have an HP Pavilion dv9000, the specific model number for the HP website is dv9335nr. There are several drivers I have been unable to located, but the most pressing issue comes from my nVIDIA Geforce Go 7600. There are no drivers for XP. I've downloaded several nVIDIA drivers, including forceware, but nothing reads my card and I end up having to shut down the installation. I am running Windows XP SP2.

Any suggestions or help would be great. I found a thread on CNET about downloading unofficial drivers from guru3d.com, (here: http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6142_102-0.html?forumID=133&threadID=239743&messageID=2467954) but honestly couldn't really make heads or tails of what I was supposed to do.

 

This one says it works for your card
http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/GRAPHICS-BOARD/NVIDIA/NVIDIA-GeForce-Go-GorceWare-812-WHQL.shtml

 

I get this error when running the setup.exe that's extracted from the download:

"Setup detected that the Operating System in use is not Windows Vista. This setup program and associated drivers are designed to run only on Windows Vista. The installation will be terminated."

 

That is odd.
The page clearly states that this driver is for all Windows OSs
http://joelkilgore.com/geo.jpg
??????????

 

Right, but the name of the actual download has vista in it.

 

OK try one of these:
http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=18547
(for XP 32bit)
or
http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=18549
(for XP 64bit)

 

No luck

 

One more
http://www.station-drivers.com/telechargement/nvidia/nvidia-84-71-gforce7600go.exe

 

No help here, and I don't mean to make anyone feel bad, but one of the first things you should do BEFORE going from Vista to XP is to check online and download ALL the drivers you need BEFORE doing the XP install. Gather them in a folder and burn it to a CD. So many people are formatting their hard drives, installing XP, and then realizing that there's no driver support for their PC for Windows XP. And considering the PC was designed to run with Vista, it just makes sense that there will be problems with XP. Why is everyone so reluctant to learn something new and use Vista??????????

BTW- I had to do a Vista > XP on a dv9000 HP laptop about 3-4 months ago, and I had a heck of time finding the video driver. I did find it eventually after reading through an HP business forum.

Try this link (I think it's the same one where I downloaded my drivers from) http://forums12.itrc.hp.com/service...47627+1210915043148+28353475&threadId=1191711
And here's another one. The model is different, but it should still work http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?os=228&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=1842189&lang=en
And if those two don't work, here's an article by a dude that has your exact same model and how he installed XP successfully. I haven't looked through the entire article, nor have I checked all the links, but it looks promising http://www.intecautomated.com/HPDV9000.html

EDIT- I checked over half the links in that last article and all the ones I checked work. The 3rd link in that article that's labeled "more intel chipset stuff" appears to be for the video (Intel 945). If you have Intel video it should work. I was thinking, try Everest and/or Unknown Devices to find the exact drivers you need. They are excellent system info tools and can be very helpful in tracking down missing drivers. Read this article for general help and the download links: http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=149107

 

I used, and liked, vista for the 3 months that it worked. Then it stopped booting, getting stuck on the boot screen for 15 to 20 minutes. IF it went through it would be absolutely terrible. During these three months I thought vista was OK, I mean I couldn't access my network center at all because explorer.exe would crash, and my external usb harddrive would only take a meager 15 minutes to connect, and my sound kept erasing the codecs or something, causing me to reinstall several codec packages almost weekly. I mean, other than those I had no problem with it (Wasn't my computer btw, Ubuntu 7.10, which I installed post-vista-problems, ran wonderfully).Thanks for the links, I'll download them later... At work!

 

Probably wasn't Vista's fault. More then likely malware, corruption of files, or hardware were at fault.