Downgrading To XP

dad101 · 04-17-2008, 04:50 PM

My grandmother purchased a Compaq Presario 6719 Laptop with Vista pre-installed. I wish she had told me before she bought it. I would have advised against it. Too complicated for her. Anyways, the vendor she purchased from was offsite tech and so now will not refund her money. What I want to do is downgrade it to XP. Contacted Microsoft but was told had to go to Mfg. Who is HP/Compaq. They told me no go cause its pre-loaded with Vista Premium and no Recovery Cd's avaliable to revert to XP. And the person I spoke with at HP/Compaq said I couldn't do it anyway...no drivers available. Well thats a bunch of hogwash! I found every single driver that will work with XP except the Video...took me a few days...my question or request is...Has anyone here downgraded this particular model and do you have the video driver for it? Or does anyone know where I can get a driver that will work with this particular model? Would greatly appreciate any help..as I am trying to help granny not lose her money from something she can't use. Thanks...

saintecho01 · 04-17-2008, 05:11 PM

try :

http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/GRA...Go-15655.shtml

if not then the graphics maybe tried in with the chipset.

post a more detailed log of your system.

dad101 · 04-20-2008, 01:40 PM

Here is what I found thru the system info....

Name NVIDIA MCP67M
PNP Device ID PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0531&SUBSYS_30CF103C&REV_A2\3&2411E6FE&0&90
Adapter Type GeForce 7150M / nForce 630M, NVIDIA compatible
Adapter Description NVIDIA MCP67M
Adapter RAM 64.00 MB (67,108,864 bytes)
Installed Drivers nvd3dum.dll
Driver Version 7.15.11.5665
INF File oem7.inf (nv_C51M section)
Color Planes Not Available
Color Table Entries 4294967296
Resolution 1024 x 768 x 59 hertz
Bits/Pixel 32
Memory Address 0xF5000000-0xF5FFFFFF
Memory Address 0xD0000000-0xDFFFFFFF
Memory Address 0xF4000000-0xF4FFFFFF
IRQ Channel IRQ 16
I/O Port 0x000003B0-0x000003BB
I/O Port 0x000003C0-0x000003DF
Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\nvlddmkm.sys (7.15.11.5665, 7.27 MB (7,626,400 bytes), 9/19/2007 1:05 PM)

04-17-2008, 04:50 PM	#1 (permalink)
dad101 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 2 OS: Vista	Downgrading To XP My grandmother purchased a Compaq Presario 6719 Laptop with Vista pre-installed. I wish she had told me before she bought it. I would have advised against it. Too complicated for her. Anyways, the vendor she purchased from was offsite tech and so now will not refund her money. What I want to do is downgrade it to XP. Contacted Microsoft but was told had to go to Mfg. Who is HP/Compaq. They told me no go cause its pre-loaded with Vista Premium and no Recovery Cd's avaliable to revert to XP. And the person I spoke with at HP/Compaq said I couldn't do it anyway...no drivers available. Well thats a bunch of hogwash! I found every single driver that will work with XP except the Video...took me a few days...my question or request is...Has anyone here downgraded this particular model and do you have the video driver for it? Or does anyone know where I can get a driver that will work with this particular model? Would greatly appreciate any help..as I am trying to help granny not lose her money from something she can't use. Thanks...

04-17-2008, 05:11 PM	#2 (permalink)
saintecho01 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: southampton,uk. Posts: 216 OS: vista ultimate 64/win xp	Re: Downgrading To XP try : http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/GRA...Go-15655.shtml if not then the graphics maybe tried in with the chipset. post a more detailed log of your system.

04-20-2008, 01:40 PM	#3 (permalink)
dad101 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 2 OS: Vista	Re: Downgrading To XP Here is what I found thru the system info.... Name NVIDIA MCP67M PNP Device ID PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0531&SUBSYS_30CF103C&REV_A2\3&2411E6FE&0&90 Adapter Type GeForce 7150M / nForce 630M, NVIDIA compatible Adapter Description NVIDIA MCP67M Adapter RAM 64.00 MB (67,108,864 bytes) Installed Drivers nvd3dum.dll Driver Version 7.15.11.5665 INF File oem7.inf (nv_C51M section) Color Planes Not Available Color Table Entries 4294967296 Resolution 1024 x 768 x 59 hertz Bits/Pixel 32 Memory Address 0xF5000000-0xF5FFFFFF Memory Address 0xD0000000-0xDFFFFFFF Memory Address 0xF4000000-0xF4FFFFFF IRQ Channel IRQ 16 I/O Port 0x000003B0-0x000003BB I/O Port 0x000003C0-0x000003DF Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\nvlddmkm.sys (7.15.11.5665, 7.27 MB (7,626,400 bytes), 9/19/2007 1:05 PM)