Hi Guys,
I hope you do not mind me stepping in.
Brow96, I commend you in your attempts to resolve this issue.
Pencapchew, I commend you for your patients as downgrading from Vista to XP can be tough.
I feel along the line that with all the drivers you have installed it may have corrupted your install. When downgrading the most important step after the install is to get the chipset driver working properly. The other drivers will not install properly without the direction of the chipset driver.
I reccommend that you start with a new clean install. Then run EVEREST under my signature and post the results. This report will help me in locating the correct drivers.
You should download and name these drivers so that you know what they are and put the in a folder so you know where they are and can make a backup when done.
Reboot after every install!! If you run into a problem STOP and Post what problems you are having. Most of these drivers should be installed via a manual install. Go to the device manager and right click on the proper driver and click UPDATE>No, not at this time>Install from a list or specific Drivers>Browse to where you have that driver. Besure you have extracted, named and placed these drivers to a folder.
The chipset driver is here:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_...nxp_16.08.html
Download and install this driver.
Grapics driver here:
http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/GRA...Go-15655.shtml
The network control driver LAN is a Realtek 8139 Series. Here is a link:
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/...&GetDown=false
The wireless lan driver is an Atheros AR2425 (Chipset), Model AR5007EG:
Driver file here:
http://www.atheros.cz/download/drive....0.56-whql.zip
Again, download and install.
Now this should get you up and running on the NET. You should now do a Full Microsoft Update. This will help us with the next steps.
The next steps is the UAA Driver from Microsoft. Here is a link:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/s...roduct=1817059
Download and install.
Then the Audio driver:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/s...os=228&lang=en
Conexant HD audio (for AMD) Install and reboot
The Modem Driver here:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/s...os=228&lang=en
Install and reboot
The media Card Reader is here:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/s...os=228&lang=en
Again download and install
At this point you should be close to getting this up and running. Double check your device manager and post any errors.
Thanks,
Bill