I got a Laptop!

I love this thing..

I just got it from my cousin and I fully reformatted it and threw Windows XP back on it.. I registered it and it's all legal and everything.

I cant get any audio drivers to go through though...

I've tried the website and everything.. they say they intall buy they dont

Halp

[crait]

DUDE! Welcome back to the internet!

that doesnt help me.. lol

thanks though.

Do you get any kind of message or error code?

[crait]

http://www.trillian.im/

Im using a 2500 Presario Compaq Laptop.. kinda old I know But i Love it..

im not getting an error or anythin of the sort but when I do try to instal the program off of the hp website It gets almost to the end and then says "Instalaion Failure"

Any help?

[crait]

I gave you a download link!

Yea.. I didnt think this site would help me anyway.

Yea.. I didnt think this site would help me anyway.

......r u joking? or r u just being a D**k?

[BKFraiders7]

I think the latter of the 2

[crait]

He was talking about the link I gave him for Trillian.

[DarkPacMan77]

Is there a prefix or suffix to the model number? There's tons of models that are "2500"

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/Te ... taskId=135

You can most likely use one of the older drivers as well. Let me know the exact model number though and I should be able to find the proper driver. Although, if you used Windows 7, it would automatically install them

-DarkPacMan77-

I wasn't trying to be a dick.. I just honestly didn't think the site would help me being as not any ever gets on, but DPM is starting and I thank him for that.

The model number is 2535QV Compaq Presario 2500.

I've looked on the HP site, and Actually downloaded the Audio driver for it which is Conaxent (Don't know how to spell it), and It installs but Doesnt actually do anything And i keep getting the error of "Audio Device cannot Start"

I've Tried TONS of audio drivers to try and get it working, but to no avail.

I've tried Realtek, Conaxent, and a TON of others..

The Product number for the laptop is : DC973A

Thanks if you can help me out

For the Record : The Operating System is, Windows XP Home edition SP 3 I believe...

Side note: I have NO problem going to linux but before I do, I want to make sure that My audio and Video and Internet will work Properly... (Airplanes feel free to help out brotha.. lol)

[brentbizzle]

Well, why don't you partition and try linux. If the audio isn't working under linux then maybe it's a hardware issue and not a driver issue.