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Check HP's website, not matter how awful it is to navigate. If you can't find drivers for Windows 7, try the Windows Vista drivers, they are often interchangeable. For some devices like the video card, you can get the drivers directly from the manufacturer's website.
Not so simple! The problem with the video card driver, chipset, motherboard, and still a lot of questions!In Power mizer has 4 performance levels (0,1,2,3) It is necessary that the graphics card switches between modes (1,2,3), because the transition to the mode (0) or the laptop back stop.Kak do it ?? ? Completely disable Power mizer I do not want to because the maximum voltage always-1v. Video card wears out faster.
Odd I did a google search and found what seems to be the drivers? Google is you best friend here...and simple search I was able to find them without going to HP site itself to the the link to hp site drivers. The drivers are for Vista and Vista x64 depending on you Windows 7 version but will work for Windows 7. Just match the drivers to your version of W7 ie 7x86 to Vistax86 and 7x64 to Vistax64 and your good to go. No one wants to hear this but just doing one own homework can give you better computing knowledge for future uses.
Video card driver: unless HP went stupid, the one straight from the GPU manufacturer should do the trick,
Chipset: Windows should find that one on its own, it may not be the most up to date, but Windows will have a working one. If you see unknown devices in the device manager, it's not the chipset itself. It could be Intel MEI or something like that, but not the chipset.
Motherboard: There is no motherboard driver per say, there will be drivers for other chips on the board, but the motherboard itself doesn't require a driver update.
The chipset is likely an Intel series 4 chipset, PM45, GM45, etc.
For that age of laptop get the newest one...but when you do update make sure that is the only thing running and keep it charged and plugged into power outlet to prevent any power outage during update.
Hi I've got F41 for my HP HDX9000 Dragon and it's fine but do be careful updating....
Also finally managed to track down a 'legacy' AMD driver update that gave me a new 2013 driver for my ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT... maybe I won't get any more random atikmdag video failures now.... Here's my details:
OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Professional
Version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name DEEP-THOUGHT-II
System Manufacturer Hewlett-Packard
System Model 8510x
System Type x64-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7500 @ 2.20GHz, 2201 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Hewlett-Packard 68DVD Ver. F.41, 22/11/2010
SMBIOS Version 2.4
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United Kingdom
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7601.17514"
User Name Deep-thought-II\Max
Time Zone GMT Standard Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 4.00 GB
Available Physical Memory 1.25 GB
Total Virtual Memory 8.19 GB
Available Virtual Memory 4.89 GB
Page File Space 4.19 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
Name ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT
PNP Device ID PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_9583&SUBSYS_30D4103C&REV_00\4&25A92F82&0&0008
Adapter Type ATI display adapter (0x9583), Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. compatible
Adapter Description ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT
Adapter RAM 256.00 MB (268,435,456 bytes)
Installed Drivers aticfx64.dll,aticfx64.dll,aticfx32,aticfx32,atiumd64.dll,atidxx64.dll,atiumdag,atidxx32,atiumdva,atiumd6a.cap,atitmm64.dll
Driver Version 8.970.100.1100
INF File oem180.inf (ati2mtag_M76 section)
Color Planes Not Available
Color Table Entries 4294967296
Resolution 1680 x 1050 x 59 hertz
Bits/Pixel 32
Memory Address 0xD0000000-0xDFFFFFFF
I/O Port 0x00006000-0x00006FFF
Memory Address 0xE8300000-0xE83FFFFF
IRQ Channel IRQ 4294967294
I/O Port 0x000003B0-0x000003BB
I/O Port 0x000003C0-0x000003DF
Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\atikmpag.sys (8.14.1.6264, 351.50 KB (359,936 bytes), 30/04/2013 03:48)
So far, so good... (had an error due to apparently not installing Microsoft 2010 C++ distributable but it installed the driver anyway..)
I have Win7, a new SSD hard drive + new 1TB drive and 4MB of ram instead of the 2 that came with it. Despite this computer dating back to 2009 (MS Vista) there's really nothing not to like about it with its massive display - it still gets used every day as the main family computer
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
