Drivers

[cheif]

I have a HP 7975. I recently took the old hard drive out,( it didn't work well), it had 80 g's.. I replaced it with a Western Digital Hard drive with a 120 g's. I formated the old Hard drive before I took it out and the HP had win/XP on it. Well anyway, I installed Win2k pro. Everyting works on it but sound. The computer says I am missing drivers for Ethernet Controller, Multimedia Audio Controller, PCI Simply Communication Controller, and Video Controller (VGA Compatible) Please Advise. :confused:

[kato2274]

well either reload XP instead of 2k pro or start posting chipset part numbers from the sound video and ethernet. HPs site shows has no downloadable drivers for win2k and I can't seem to find a good product spec page either to list the sound card model ethernet model etc.

if you have an HP recovery CD, I think it should not care that the hard drive is bigger . . . . but you never know . . . . might be worth a shot.

[cheif]

Hey Kato: Thanks for your help. The thing is that when I wiped out the old drive, I wiped out everything and I mean everything. When I got through with playing wipe out with XP plus the hard drive, I ended up with no recovery at all.. I have to go and see just what the sound card and anything that goes with it and their Numbers.. Again Thanks Kato

[NooNoo]

Here is the specification for your machine (http://h20015.www2.hp.com/en/document.jhtml?reg=&cc=us&prodId=hppavilion62779&lc=en&docName=bph06892) The graphics is geforce which can be obtained from www.nvidia.com - the other drivers would depend on who made the motherboard. You could actually try the xp drivers on 2k, quite often they are interchangeable

[confus-ed]

Try this HP link (http://www.hp.com/cgi-bin/cposupport/ccsearch/search-product?pname=7975&qry=&ctry=null&lang=eng&sni=hppavilion7226&search=0&submit.x=0&submit.y=0) pick your country & follow the links ... everything looks to have drivers somewhere off that ... for both 2000 & xp ... or at least the uk link does

BTW this device 'PCI Simply Communication Controller' (that should be 'simple') is a modem ... that's how they show before the driver informs it what it really is...