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dgilz · 11-19-2008, 10:37 AM

Hey.
Need help for my 3 headed monster....a year ago I bought a Hp pavillon notebook (dv6000 series, 6642ca) and was fitted with vista. Like a few people, I really got angry at vista since I couldn't use my softwares without cursing to get drivers and even sometimes it didn't work at all, not to mention all those unclear security features. So I asked the future shop dude to remove vista and install xp. Obviously, they had a hard time to fit that with the SATA hd, but in the end it worked fine. They created a recovery disc and I taught everything was on the disc to perform a full recovery in case of a major crash, which finally happened yesterday. I did a complete format of the computer and tried to re-install xp with their so called recovery disc, but there was a lot of missing drivers. I got the driver detective software and it solved 95% of the problems. Now I have this typical indication in the device manager saying there is no driver for the video controller. I tried to install nvidia geforce for xp, but it's saying that there is no compatible driver on the computer for installation. Tried to get help with a Hp tech, but his idea was to go back with vista. No thanks!

How can I fix this video controller problem?

Maybe I did something wrong in the steps of installing all these drivers? (I mean, maybe there are drivers that needs to be installed before or after others?)

11-19-2008, 10:37 AM	#1 (permalink)
dgilz Registered User Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Québec, Canada Posts: 7 OS: windows xp	[SOLVED] video controller problem Hey. Need help for my 3 headed monster....a year ago I bought a Hp pavillon notebook (dv6000 series, 6642ca) and was fitted with vista. Like a few people, I really got angry at vista since I couldn't use my softwares without cursing to get drivers and even sometimes it didn't work at all, not to mention all those unclear security features. So I asked the future shop dude to remove vista and install xp. Obviously, they had a hard time to fit that with the SATA hd, but in the end it worked fine. They created a recovery disc and I taught everything was on the disc to perform a full recovery in case of a major crash, which finally happened yesterday. I did a complete format of the computer and tried to re-install xp with their so called recovery disc, but there was a lot of missing drivers. I got the driver detective software and it solved 95% of the problems. Now I have this typical indication in the device manager saying there is no driver for the video controller. I tried to install nvidia geforce for xp, but it's saying that there is no compatible driver on the computer for installation. Tried to get help with a Hp tech, but his idea was to go back with vista. No thanks! How can I fix this video controller problem? Maybe I did something wrong in the steps of installing all these drivers? (I mean, maybe there are drivers that needs to be installed before or after others?)