XP Home SP2

[Gene & Betty]

Hi Gang,

Been lurking here for awhile, this is my first post. A year or so ago I
bought a used retail version of XP Home Ed. After loading onto my HP
Pavilion desktop along with Win7 Pro. & Vista Home I noticed that I had no
sound or network on it. The rest of the OS's worked fine. Thinking that it
could be the computer I loaded it onto my HP Presario laptop replacing it's
XP Pro. OS. Same result.

Any help will be appreciated.

TIA
Gene

 

[Paul]

Hi Gang,

Been lurking here for awhile, this is my first post. A year or so ago I
bought a used retail version of XP Home Ed. After loading onto my HP
Pavilion desktop along with Win7 Pro. & Vista Home I noticed that I had no
sound or network on it. The rest of the OS's worked fine. Thinking that it
could be the computer I loaded it onto my HP Presario laptop replacing it's
XP Pro. OS. Same result.

Any help will be appreciated.

TIA
Gene

Start : Run : devmgmt.msc

Look for some yellow marks, which tells you
some drivers are missing.

http://www.technibble.com/articlecontent/video-drivers/video-drivers1.gif

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tlsZ2-bXnoM/TgJYDNkIooI/AAAAAAAAAIs/_l9gaVkK_hs/s1600/dev.jpg

You can also try

Start : Run : msinfo32

then go to Components : Problem Devices
and look for Ven : Dev information.

You can look up Vendor and Device numbers here.

http://pciids.sourceforge.net/pci.ids

For USB devices, you can look up VID and PID numbers here.

http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids

*******

It might be easier, to look at the drivers on the
HP site for Vista. They'll be sorted by
device type. And maybe you can put two and two
together using that information. I download
things like the HP driver files, then use 7-ZIP to open
the compressed EXE file and examine it. Some of the .INF
files have VEN and DEV, and comments in the file (such
as the identifier string for Device Manager), give me
hints I need to track down a driver.

Since you're missing Sound and Network, you'll only
need to download two files from the HP site, to do
your detective work.

If you'd named the precise model of machine, the
guessing would be a lot easier.

Paul

 

[David H. Lipman]

Hi Gang,

Been lurking here for awhile, this is my first post. A year or so ago I bought a used
retail version of XP Home Ed. After loading onto my HP Pavilion desktop along with Win7
Pro. & Vista Home I noticed that I had no sound or network on it. The rest of the OS's
worked fine. Thinking that it could be the computer I loaded it onto my HP Presario
laptop replacing it's XP Pro. OS. Same result.

Any help will be appreciated.

TIA
Gene

You should bet at SP3 level. SP2 support ended a couple years ago or so.

What does this mean ?
"After loading onto my HP Pavilion desktop along with Win7 Pro. & Vista Home "

You have to install the associated WinXP hardware drivers for Audio and Network interfaces
to work.

 

[Gene & Betty]

You should bet at SP3 level. SP2 support ended a couple years ago or so.

What does this mean ?
"After loading onto my HP Pavilion desktop along with Win7 Pro. & Vista
Home "

You have to install the associated WinXP hardware drivers for Audio and
Network interfaces to work.

Thanks for the help guys. I'll let you know how it goes.

Gene

 

[micky]

Hi Gang,

Been lurking here for awhile, this is my first post. A year or so ago I
bought a used retail version of XP Home Ed. After loading onto my HP
Pavilion desktop along with Win7 Pro. & Vista Home I noticed that I had no
sound or network on it. The rest of the OS's worked fine.

Thinking that it could be the computer

So think about it. If the other OSes worked fine, that is, I presume,
the sound and network worked, how could the computer itself be the
problem?