I've been trying to get all the drivers for the V6210CA I bought second hand and installed XP Pro on. Ive got only a few left but they're driving me crazy. The laptop runs find but I can't figure out what I'm missing. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I have also found myself with this same issue. I am not a big fan of Vista so I formated and installed Windows XP PRO. Upon Windows launching I discovered that the majority of my hardware has no drivers. I am trying to find the driver for my Broadcom WLAN so I can at least get the machine online so I can find the rest of the drivers.
If anyone can help, that would be fantastic. HP is not willing to help because they only support the computer with Windows Vista.
Unfortunately, it's difficult, and in a lot of cases impossible.
I've just written this in another thread:
Originally posted by sammorris: The reason why you can't get XP drivers for premade PCs with Vista isn't to force you to use Vista, it's because the PCs are designed to be left alone, and often use obscure hardware you can't buy over the shelf. Consequently the only drivers that get made for those components are the ones that the PC comes with, no need to make them for other operating systems, because most people will never use them... Unfortunately the upshot of that is that you can't change back to Vista afterwards.
This is one of the other reasons I recommend people build their own PCs if they can.
this is a link to all the xp drivers available for the v6000 series laptops, the wireless driver there will solve your problem Andrew. I currently use it without any problems. Still, I cannot figure out what they are missing here, possibly the IR or bluetooth but I'm not sure if the drivers for those were built into vista or if they were extra.
Awesome, thank you so much. I downloaded the Broadcom driver at work and synced it to my iPod. When I get online tonight I will take a better look around for those drivers you are missing. If I find anything I will let you know.
