this tutorial is about installing xp on special edition hp dv2601tx and hp dv 2701tx.it is 100% working .
i just cant keep track of how many times we tried to install xp on this lappy.xp installed fine ,but finding and installing drivers was a nightmare.we dont know how many weekends we sacrificed to achieve this.we learnt a lot of things in this process.and finally ravi came up with this method.
i was wondering how change in the deployment method can influence a system installation.i guess i found the answer.
when we installed the drivers separately (manually),we did not follow any order .
In this method ,system itself takes the required drivers in the required order since all the drivers are already present in the media.(cd/dvd).and hence works evrytime without fail. 
the bottomline is we learnt the things the hardway. that is the reason for this tutorial.
things required
:
- Sata drivers get it here
- Intel Chipset get it here
- Nvidia Graphics: get it here
- Marvell Yukon ethernet get it here
- ALPs Touchpad get it here
- HP Quick Launch buttons and Quick Play. get it here.
- For the modem,fingerprint and HP Quick Launch use your Vista driver. get it here
- Bioscrypt VeriSoft Access Manager get it here.
- Audio Drivers uaa . (universal audio architecture) get it here
- Conexant high definition audio driver get it here
step 1:
first of all download all the drivers from the link given above in to a folder.after downloading all the drivers into a folder it should luk similar to image shown below.
step 2:
install winrar software on your computer if it is not yet installed.
step 3:
right click on the setup icon,you should see an option “extract to (filename)”.select it.you should see a new folder with extracted drivers in it .the image below should give some idea.
repeat the same step for all driver files.
after extracting the all the driver files,you should be having several folders with extracted drivers inside it as shown below.
step 4:
install nlite if it is not yet installed.
step 5:
start nlite. (if you are not familiar with nlite ,read this simple tutorial about integrating drivers here.)
step 6:
mount the drivers which you have extracted as shown below.
select drivers option and bootable iso ,and others if necessary.
step 7:
click on insert and select multiple driver folder as shown above.
select folders where your extracted drivers are located as shown above.
select all items and click ok as shown above.
you should see a list of drivers as shown above ,after you have selected all drivers for integration.
step 8:
now click on next and proceed usually as shown in the other tutorial.
after the step 8 is completed ,you will have xp bootable cd with all the drivers integrated.
now install xp usual way.
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gr8 man u r great its working……..
Hi,
Its great , u got the solution. Can i install XP on HP DV6231EU laptop. Right now i have Windows vista Home premium. Can i follow the above steps? Will it work for me. Please can u confirm this.
hi savita
have u tried installing windows xp on to ur laptop..
95% of the time,downgrading to xp is possible.
have you tried it before?how far have u achieved?where exactly are you stuck?
you can follow the above steps but in place of those drivers ,you will have to use yours.
from what i know,yours is a amd machine.so many of these drivers wont work.
get your xp drivers here,first.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?os=228&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&lang=en&product=3357853
you will be lacking graphics drivers,sound and wireless drivers,for which you will have to search in the hp forums.
after finding all drivers,you can use this method and enjoy xp.let us know how you did it.
I have been facing an issue when trying to install XP on the Dv2601tx laptop. I get a blue screen of deathduring the initial stage of installation. If I press the F7 key during installation, XP loads fine but the ACPI feature gets disabled. Once the laptop is setup, I have to manually switch off like with the old AT systems. Any idea of how to overcome this obstacle?
cary
we finally installed xp on hp2601tx after reaching the state you have described thru comment.and that is the usual way of installing xp.
instead,
TRY the method i have explained ,only then you will be able to install xp perfectly.
the only thing you have to do now is to TRY THE METHOD EXPLAINED ABOVE.
can we install the drivers seperately after installing windows xp…
you can install drivers separately after installing windows xp ,but most of the times,wifi, bluetooth and battery drivers won’t work.you can try once,no harm though.
iam making a bootable cd of windows with nlite… but as soon as the copying completes it gives me an error “unhandled exception has occurred in your application.” and it also says “the process cannot access the file usbport.sys because it is being used by another process” iam trying to make a bootable cd of windows xp sp2… any idea what can be the problem…?
i think the xp cd from which you are copying must be corrupt.try with a new xp cd.
can any 1 help on installing xp on hp dv2214 tu
xp is installed but some drivers and bluetoth and wifi are not working also i cannot what componenet drivers are missing please help
i can’t found the Marvel ethernet drivers and wireless drivers can u help in to that
Thks
go to the marvel site using the link given.select drivers from the menu at the top.
choose “network controller” as device type.
and xp 32 bit as your platform
and click on submit.
select 2nd or 3rd link
oh no wait
try this link
http://www.marvell.com/drivers/driverDisplay.do?driverId=175
dear admin,
i have the same laptop,hp 2601tx and i have downgraded to xp but even in your page i coulnt fint the bluetooth driver for my laptop..can you pls send me a link for xp driver of bluetooth??
Commendable Article Dude
You write great Tutorials.
dear emre yalmac
thank you for notifying.
i ll add the drivers a.s.a.p
well i’m gonna try it now.anyway thanx for the tutorial.
thank you verymuch admin. you did very very great job and i have seen many blogs but this blog is very user friendly.. you are life saver man!!!
just one suggestion, as you have prepared this for dv2601tx, you can upload its all drivers to one file to mediafire or something and then it will be more user friendly..
now i’ve got one problem. i downloaded and install the drivers for audio UAA and conexant as you have given here. UAA installed correctly but conexant audio drivers are not installing. also in my device manager there are four items having yellow question mark. one is network adapter and other three are same some bus driver.
i also try to install modem but its also not installed. also blue tooth and wireless can not be installed. these all i tried after installing xp. as i couldnt inject them by NLITE.
any help will be greatly appriciated
thanks
@raship
i am glad you liked the blog.
i will upload all the drivers in a single file somewhere very soon and it would be great if any readers could do it and send me the link .
possible solution for your problem
you should be able to integrate all drivers thru nlite.did u get any error messages while integrating?
1) in the device manager ,wherever you find yellow question mark ,right click and click on update drivers and give location of your driver folder to update from it
OR
go to microsoft help and support and choose online support where you can search for available drivers and you will definitely get ethernet and conexant drivers.
i think i havent given bluetooth and wireless drivers so wait a little more time .:)
dear admin,
i have the same laptop,hp dv2601tx and i have downloaded all the drivers you have mentioned from their respective links. But i fail at the very first step, i cannot see the same folders being created when i extract the zip files in their respective folders. i see folders being created with different names, but i have strictly followed your download links.
How can i show shot of the drivers that i have downloaded. Or if please you can do a favour , upload these drivers and let us download them. I will be grateful to you
Thanks
Zubair Masoodi
Dear admin
One thing more When i go to
“For the modem,fingerprint and HP Quick Launch use your Vista driver”
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?os=2093&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=3545116&lang=en
I see a lot of other drivers, which particular drivers should i download from this link.
I have downloaded modem,fingerprint and HP Quick Launch drivers.
Do i need to download others also.
Thanks
thanks for providing this ensemblage
this wud be really helpful
but all this useful after xp has been installed in the machine
the problem i am facing with dv2601tx is that it wudnt let me install xp in the very place
it says there are no hard drives found on the system so setup can not continue and xp can not be installed on this computer
i seeked help on the internet earlier what i was advised was to enter the bios settings and change the settings either enabling or disabling SATA
and there is no option of enabling or disabling SATA in the BIOS settings when i enter them in the beginning at boot.
What do i need to do
you need not disable sata.
all you need to do is this
http://techtricks.co.in/slipstreamingintegrating-sata-drivers-into-bootable-xp-cd/
it was great, thanks man
successfully installed xp and is working
but the sound drivers arent working it says there it cudnt find a device
and the bluetooth too isnt working along with the quickplay and quicklaunch
dear admin
thanks for this tutorial it was excellent and this feedback and replies has really made it possible for many users like me to suucessfully get rid of the sluggish vista on the dv2601tx and install XP working sufficiently well
thanks a ton
I wud like to add in it about the bluetooth as the vista bluetooth drivers are going work in it
in device management hp integrated module is there right click it
and upgrade
select location and then guide where there iare the vista bluetooth drivers
in vista itself the blurtooth drivers are in the swsetup folder so obtain them from there
Dear admin
You didn’t responded to my queries, will you please
@zubaid
you need not download other drivers.
Sir, you didn’t answered my previous query. “i cannot see the same folders being created when i extract the zip files in their respective folders. i see folders being created with different names, but i have strictly followed your download links.”
For chipset i found “infinst_autol.exe” at the location you have provided, but when i see the image you have provided it clearly shows the name of the file as intel chipset Hawlett Packard.
Same thing happens for few of my other drivers also
for NVIDIA 32bit ForceWare GeForce Go 156.55 i could locate 15655.exe but i could not see it being mounted when i run nlite
For Marvell Yukon ethernet i was downloaded “setup_v10.66.4.3.zip” extracted it and again not being listed in nlite when attempted to mount.
For HP Quick Launch buttons and Quick Play. i found QLB.zip and QPW.zip at the location provided by you. Downloaded and extracted and same behavior when attmpted to mount though nlite
Can you please help me. I am frustrated with vista, i want to switch to XP as soon as possible. But every thing should work fine..
Thanks
Zubair
@ zubair
hey install the marvell yukon driver and nvidia separately after installing os.
dear admin
I have a serious trouble with installing XP, Can you provide me your Telephone number so that i can talk to you.
Thanks
i have installed xp as told by u. had to install above given drivers manually.
installed nvidia successfully. but unable to install audio drivers. soo no sound. m also facing some trouble with deleting folders. and some times application get uninstalled automatically and hv to be installed again and again.
please help with procedure to install drivers asap.
as per above procedure i hv installed xp.
had to manually install nvidia.
but no audio.
plz help
for audio there is a workaround.open device manager and click on the yellow icon which is appearing for the audio hardware and right click on it.now select “show driver location manually ” kind of option and select device type under audio devices,and choose conexant.and update the driver.
i actually dont remember the details well,but this is similar to the way we did it.
i would like to hear about your progess.
Hello i tried this whole process on slipstreaming the drivers on my winxp cd, but i cant get windows setup to load on my HP G60-235dx laptop. The same cd will work on my desktop but not on this laptop.
what error did u get when u tried installing xp on laptop?
i am still unable to find drivers for bluetooth,wifi ..
plz help..
Great…….! Its working fine…
Thanks.
dear administrator
thanks for this tutorial
in the device manager
there is one last yellow question mark remaining
and this is for the last 2 months
since then i have installed xp in many dv2601txs
but the same problem is yet unsolved
network controller shows a yellow question mark
and it doesnt find a driver in the system when we opt for update driver
neither can i locate it on my own
please help
this doesnt let the wireless work
so cant use the wifi
please please please help
i bought this laptop 1 year back and i feel myself so unlucky for that..i used the laptop so neatly,there is not even 1 scratch but first of all battery has gone,i mean it s not charging at all and when the electricity goes off laptop is closing..an the main problem i suffered with nvidia graphichs..now im using the computer without installing the driver of graphic card..if i install it,the screen is stucks and failures..i went to technical service and they offered me to sell my laptop to them for 6k rupees and i laughed:) and the service guys told me,they are getting 100 laptops per day with the same problem i faced in hp 2500 series..anyway it will cost me 20k again to replace motherboard and a new battery..if anyone suffers the same problem as me, i suggest them to replace the motherboard which is without nvidia graphics so that they wont suffer again..thats what im gonna do..
You guyz are just so amazing…… it worked like magic… keep up the good work
hi i hv dv2601TX hp laptop … from last 20 days it is geting error
my loptop screen shows different color and then hang and after that shutdown or sometime blue screen comes …. plz guys help me
i hv also unable nvidia driver after unable it shutdown automatically in half or an hour … what should i do if u know this proble plz help me
thanku very much…….
Thanks boss
dear administrator
i have a problem with the wireless in the laptop
it doesnt seem to be working
i have downgraded to xp from vista in the hp dv 2601tx
about a couple of months ago
everything but the wireless is working
and there is a yellow question mark in the device management on network controller
wud deeply appreciate any help
Hi..I trying to install Xp on compaq CQ 45-106AU. This is a AMD machine. I tried to install with above steps and I am geeting error the achix64.sys file is correpted.
i have a hp dv6 3141tx laptop i want to install xp into that where do i get all the drivers wud u please help me find them
thanks dude,
gooooooooooood job thanks for advice to install xp on my laptop thanks
thanks mate.
YOu are too good man….the best part of your idea is that you have given all of the software link to download….
I tried last two day for searching solution of that …many was like bullshit and wasting of time ideas…
God bless you man ……
in the end i want to say thanks you very much…