Some one clever help with finding some drivers please!

Gavin

Gavin

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Ive installed windows 7 on my old laptop, now it runs fine but i need a gfx driver and the nic driver.

Its a HP pavillion ZE 4800

Thanks guys
 
Would be a good idea to tell us what they are first :p.

Open the device manager (start>run>devmgmt.msc), double click on the ones which don't have drivers, go to details then choose the 'hardware ids' property and copy/paste the values in the box.
 
right the ethernet controller is pci\ven_100b&dev_0020&subsys_0024103c&rev_00

and a few more

start with that eh?
 
Pho said:
Would be a good idea to tell us what they are first :p.

Open the device manager (start>run>devmgmt.msc), double click on the ones which don't have drivers, go to details then choose the 'hardware ids' property and copy/paste the values in the box.
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and i cant copy paste as i have no network access from that machine lol, ive posted from another machine
 
Gavin said:
right the ethernet controller is pci\ven_100b&dev_0020&subsys_0024103c&rev_00

and a few more

start with that eh?
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I did a bit of googling for you, and apparently HP have no intention of providing Vista (and by extension Win7) drivers for this adapter, not do National Semiconductor Corp (who actually manufacture the chip).

However, a bit more googling found a forum where someone apparently managed to get it working on Vista (which implies probable Win7 compatibility) using the Windows 2003 drivers from here. Maybe worth a shot, if not you might have to get a PCMCIA card with known Vista/Win7 compatability.
 
many thanks ill try it cheers

edit can you get the download link to work? i cant seem to get it to work unless i really am that dum, probably!
 
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Nope, it's not you, the main link on that page takes you nowhere, and the link to the external mirror just takes you back to National Semiconductors, which isn't much help either. Sorry. :(

I've read around a bit more, and to be honest your chances of getting that adapter to work with Vista or Win7 seem pretty remote. You could try the XP drivers from HP, but I wouldn't hold out much hope.

You could pick up a PCMCIA/Cardbus adapter quite cheaply, but it's a pretty old machine and I wouldn't go spending too much on it, at least until you've verified if you can get the graphics card (ATI Mobility Radeon?) to work.
 
put 'everest ultimate' on a usb drive

run it on the machine, then find the drivers online (for Vista)
 
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