windows 7 - How to know which driver is missing from hp laptop?

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2014-07
  • Fischer

    I have an hp pavilion g6, windows 7 64 bit, many drivers are missing like the sleep mode, and if use hybrid mode or lock mode, the laptop freezes and i have to restart it.

    The Bluetooth drivers were missing but i managed to solve it because the users on this site helped me.

    I don't want to ask you guys to solve all the problems, if you could just tell me how to know which driver is missing then i could look it up by myself.

    HP support assistant didn't find any updates for my drivers. HP driver checker tool on their website wasn't able to locate my pc. I tried using the product name and number, didn't find it.

    So how to know if a driver is missing so i could download it? Detecting that the Bluetooth driver is missing is easy, but for example how to know if an hd graphic card driver is missing?

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  • Darth Android

    It's difficult to know which one is explicitly missing; However, I've yet to find a major laptop or motherboard manufacturer which provides all their drivers organized by product.

    Here is the driver download page for hp pavilion g6, windows 7 64 bit.

    I usually just install all of the most recent versions of each of the drivers they list. There are a few things you have to watch for, like don't install the ATI graphics drivers if you don't have an ATI GPU, don't install the nvidia drivers if you don't have an nvidia GPU, etc.


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    How to make HP Laserjet 1000 drivers work on Windows 7 64-bit?
  • Questioner

    I know that HP has no intention of providing driver support for older model printers (their web site solution is telling me to buy a new printer).

    However, is there a work-around that will allow me to use the HP LJ 1000 printer in Windows 7 (64bit)? What about a "generic" driver for the LaserJet? Any suggestions? Will I need to trick Windows into accepting the printer?


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  • Peter Mortensen

    Well, I found a solution posted in Driver needed: Hewlett Packard (HP) HP Laserjet 1000 Series (Windows XP Professional x64) (USB).

    But you are not going to like it.

    Pretty much the rundown is that Hewlett-Packard never built a 64-bit driver base for this and several other printers that are host controlled. So the solution is to either setup the printer on a 32-bit machine, use settings to print from DOS, and then share it. From the Windows Vista/Windows 7 machine connect to the share and install the HP 1100 driver provided in the printer list.

    OR

    Install the VirtualBox software provided in the links on that forum on your 64-bit box. Then install the printer in the 32-bit environment, and set it up as a share. Connect to the internally shared printer on the VirtualBox instance that is running on your 64-bit box.

    Best of luck in this endeavor.

  • Joe Taylor

    With some versions of Windows 7 you get to use a tool called XP Mode. Check here for details: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx

    You must have a processor capable of running it. "AMD-V and Intel VT are CPU-specific hardware virtualization features that must be enabled to utilize Windows Virtual PC."

    Windows XP Mode, a single virtual copy of Windows XP Service Pack 3, is available for download free of charge from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/default.aspx for PCs running Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Ultimate, and Windows 7 Enterprise.

    Source: Microsoft.com

    You coould just connect to the XP machine using the ip address. Goto run type \xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx\ and right click on the pinter and click connect. That would be the easiest way of cponnecting to your Xp printer.

  • Scott McClenning

    For me when I has a scanner that wasn't supported, I was in luck and I was able to use a virtual machine and load an OS that had a driver for it. You may need to jump through those kind of hoops if new OSs don't support devices you want to keep using.

    Good luck.

    (ps: I thought from their website that there was a driver, but are right HP didn't support it.)

  • martinatime

    I also had a driver issue for an older piece of hardware (a scanner) and I decided to try the Vista driver. It worked great. I just did some quick research on the HP site and it doesn't look like the Vista driver is available. You could try a driver for another similar (supported) printer