dv1000 problem

quazorpc · 31st October 2007, 6:56 PM

I have been hand balled a HP dv1000 from a friend that is pretty screwed. Had some weird windows thing going on that made it impossible to get into a working desktop including safe mode. The data on the hard drive was pretty important so i pulled the hdd out and whacked it into a enclosure and got the data that i needed off it. The laptop came with no restore cd's and had no recovery partition that I could find documentation for or on the system itself. Apparently the user is ment to make there own recovery disks with some utility.

Frustrated that i had no disks i borrowed a friend who had the same laptop (and not made the disks) off her to see what i could do. I tried to follow the instructions that came with the laptop on how to make the restore discs. They where completely useless as i couldn't find any of these programs on the computer to make these discs. I searched all over the hard drive of the borrowed working machine to try and find something that sounded remotely like the utility that was described. To No avail i grumbled and gave the working dv1000 back to my friend

I gave up on that idea and decided to do things the old fashioned way. I formatted the non working dv1000 and whacked windowsxp Pro on. Non of the drivers on the HP site work with the installation so i had to track most of the drivers down on the internet trying to acquire non-HP butchered versions. I got everything working except the Ethernet, Sound (cant control volume with mixer & Media card reader. I cant seem to find any drivers for the chip sets i know are in the laptop.

I called HP and had a winge that i couldn't find any utility to make the restore disks and they said a technician will ring me back...

Can I do anything else and why wouldn't the drivers listed on HP's site be working?

What would be even better is if anybody has/knows how to make dv1000 restore disk?

Cheers.

Glide · 31st October 2007, 7:48 PM

never had a problem with the HP drivers?

I wish they had a tag download system like DELL. Usually they chuck up a bunch of drivers for each model, and you have to kinda guess which one it will be.

Maybe you should grab an old version of aida32 from majorgeeks and get the device names so you can find the drivers that way.

Often windows update will have drivers for the newer lappies too

quazorpc · 31st October 2007, 11:11 PM

The HP drivers off the site dont work for some reason. i guess it is because im not using a HP butchered version of windows. CD I used for installation was slipstreamed with latest updates and SP's etc.

coco · 1st November 2007, 9:42 PM

my girlfriend has the same laptop, i downloaded the drivers from the HP Australia site and worked fine.

the link is - http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/s...437844&lang=en

hope this helps, please let us know how you go!

chris.

Dexash · 2nd November 2007, 8:32 AM

Reformatted a dv1000 yesterday with our standard company XP cd. Installed the drivers off the HP site and it all seemed to work fine.

31st October 2007, 6:56 PM	#1
quazorpc Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Perth, Claremont Posts: 149	dv1000 problem I have been hand balled a HP dv1000 from a friend that is pretty screwed. Had some weird windows thing going on that made it impossible to get into a working desktop including safe mode. The data on the hard drive was pretty important so i pulled the hdd out and whacked it into a enclosure and got the data that i needed off it. The laptop came with no restore cd's and had no recovery partition that I could find documentation for or on the system itself. Apparently the user is ment to make there own recovery disks with some utility. Frustrated that i had no disks i borrowed a friend who had the same laptop (and not made the disks) off her to see what i could do. I tried to follow the instructions that came with the laptop on how to make the restore discs. They where completely useless as i couldn't find any of these programs on the computer to make these discs. I searched all over the hard drive of the borrowed working machine to try and find something that sounded remotely like the utility that was described. To No avail i grumbled and gave the working dv1000 back to my friend I gave up on that idea and decided to do things the old fashioned way. I formatted the non working dv1000 and whacked windowsxp Pro on. Non of the drivers on the HP site work with the installation so i had to track most of the drivers down on the internet trying to acquire non-HP butchered versions. I got everything working except the Ethernet, Sound (cant control volume with mixer & Media card reader. I cant seem to find any drivers for the chip sets i know are in the laptop. I called HP and had a winge that i couldn't find any utility to make the restore disks and they said a technician will ring me back... Can I do anything else and why wouldn't the drivers listed on HP's site be working? What would be even better is if anybody has/knows how to make dv1000 restore disk? Cheers.

2nd November 2007, 8:32 AM	#5
Dexash Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Hobart... again Posts: 200	Reformatted a dv1000 yesterday with our standard company XP cd. Installed the drivers off the HP site and it all seemed to work fine. __________________ Trades

31st October 2007, 7:48 PM	#2
Glide Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Sydney Posts: 730	never had a problem with the HP drivers? I wish they had a tag download system like DELL. Usually they chuck up a bunch of drivers for each model, and you have to kinda guess which one it will be. Maybe you should grab an old version of aida32 from majorgeeks and get the device names so you can find the drivers that way. Often windows update will have drivers for the newer lappies too

31st October 2007, 11:11 PM	#3
quazorpc Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Perth, Claremont Posts: 149	The HP drivers off the site dont work for some reason. i guess it is because im not using a HP butchered version of windows. CD I used for installation was slipstreamed with latest updates and SP's etc.

1st November 2007, 9:42 PM	#4
coco (Banned or Deleted) Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 9	my girlfriend has the same laptop, i downloaded the drivers from the HP Australia site and worked fine. the link is - http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/s...437844&lang=en hope this helps, please let us know how you go! chris.