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07 Oct 2008, 7:41 pm

One of my friends has an HP Pavillion 8756C that I'm fixing. Its on Windows XP but I would like Windows 2000 on it due to the fact it will run faster. However HP gives no more drivers than the one for its cursed multimedia keyboard, Any Help.

Note- Windows ME and 98 also only have the driver for the keyboard.



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07 Oct 2008, 8:20 pm

Time to update the keyboard, I never cared for Hp's driver support, having worked for an Hp outsource company here in Canada
and looking at the site there is nothing for Win2k for this model, if you have the keyboard model # there might be a CTO model that used both win2k and that keyboard (HP One-touch Internet keyboard) Hp didn't like to support alot of Pavilion Pc's if the owners installed win2k, since they figured those users should have purchased a business computer such as a Vectra which had win2k



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07 Oct 2008, 9:01 pm

gamefreak wrote:
One of my friends has an HP Pavillion 8756C that I'm fixing. Its on Windows XP but I would like Windows 2000 on it due to the fact it will run faster. However HP gives no more drivers than the one for its cursed multimedia keyboard, Any Help.

Note- Windows ME and 98 also only have the driver for the keyboard.


Have you attempted to use a Win XP driver for this? Considering the fact that XP is very similar to Win 2K, this may work. -- I have used Win ME and Win 95 drivers on a Win 98 system before with satisfactory results.


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07 Oct 2008, 9:02 pm

Heres the closes thing I could find, you might need to give them your info to download
http://www.input-drivers.com/companies/ ... &bng=7&o=7



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07 Oct 2008, 9:16 pm

actually, many XP and Win 2k drivers are interchangeable.

I do know from all the HP training I've gone through (you don't wanna know), is that HP is dropping support for their more modern machines (printers, anyways, but you know how corporations are).

Keyboards you can find almost anywhere, for peanuts.

That being said, my main machine is still on Win 2k...works fine for me, and only a few things don't work on it (good thing the other machine is XP...;)



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07 Oct 2008, 9:16 pm

Fogman wrote:
gamefreak wrote:
One of my friends has an HP Pavillion 8756C that I'm fixing. Its on Windows XP but I would like Windows 2000 on it due to the fact it will run faster. However HP gives no more drivers than the one for its cursed multimedia keyboard, Any Help.

Note- Windows ME and 98 also only have the driver for the keyboard.


Have you attempted to use a Win XP driver for this? Considering the fact that XP is very similar to Win 2K, this may work. -- I have used Win ME and Win 95 drivers on a Win 98 system before with satisfactory results.


The lazy @$$'s @ HP doesn't have XP Drivers because they urge thier customers to use the generic ones with XP or stick with Mistake Edition and waste thier hardware on a poor OS.



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14 Oct 2008, 1:52 am

Um, wow. I googled the system, it originally came with Windows ME it appears. Why not stick a fresh copy of 2000 on it then googled the drivers that are missing for the specific hardware. For example if you're missing the display driver look at the full name of the video card and google "<video card> driver". Judging how old the system is you shouldn't have any issues finding drivers.



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17 Oct 2008, 7:30 pm

z0rp wrote:
Um, wow. I googled the system, it originally came with Windows ME it appears. Why not stick a fresh copy of 2000 on it then googled the drivers that are missing for the specific hardware. For example if you're missing the display driver look at the full name of the video card and google "<video card> driver". Judging how old the system is you shouldn't have any issues finding drivers.


Did that, thanks