Over my head on this one... I have combed the forums thoroughly, and have tried several drivers from nvidia and HP - without resolve. Formatted an HP Pavillion dv2000 VISTA laptop with XP Professional SP2. Besides network issues, I have also gotten "Other Devices" which I am unable to find drivers for online:
1.) Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller
2.) nVIDIA MCP67 - Lan Controller PHY: Marvell 88EC031
3.) Conexant Cx20561 @ nVIDIA MCP67 - High Definition Audio Controller
4.) Modem Device on High Definition Audio Bus

Drivers Installed and Failed:

Broadcom.4311
14.10 nforce 630a winxp

sp34152
sp33839

HP Pavillion dv2000 CTO
sp27678
sp30580
sp31075
sp32315
sp32825
sp33031
sp33340
sp33411
sp33537
sp33544
sp33566
sp34152
sp34746
sp35384
sp35682
sp38266

Generics for the HP Pavillion dv2000
sp32203
sp33020
sp33031
sp33340
sp33549
sp33556
sp33760
sp33761
sp33839
sp34152
sp34386
sp34489
sp34510
sp35682
sp38266

dv2700 for giggles (while perusing the bios it displayed the model as being a dv2700, so I down loaded a few drivers to see if theyd work)
sp32144
sp36770
sp38874
sp39096

TheBends,

The Reasons For Failure Are:

1. You Do Not Know the Skew of the Mother Board in Your Machine.
2. You Do Not Know the OEM Manufacturer of the Mother Board in Your Machine.
3. You Do Not Know What Chipset is on the Mother Board of Your Machine.
4. You Did Not Make a Slipstream XP Installation CD with the Chipset Drivers Included.
5. You Do Know Exactly What Components are on the Mother Board on Your Machine.
6. You Did Not Study the How-Tos on O/S Conversions to Your Machine.

In NO Way Am I Disparaging You Personally BUT Merely Trying to Convey the Fact To All That Poor Prior Planing of Projects Will Always End in Project Failures.

The Information You Need Is Available But May Take Hard Work To Obtain.

I Respectfully Suggest That You Start Your Project Over Again From Scratch With A Good Plan.

Kindest Regards,
Rick P.

Touall and TheBends,

Welcome to HTG.

My response was a bit harsh but made for everyone.

I just wanted to emphasis that converting an OEM Machine to another O/S can be extremely hard and takes plenty of prior planning before jumping into "High Water" so to speak.

As I said in my earlier post, I meant nothing personal at all toward (TheBends).

I did write the word "YOU" too many times in my post and (DO APOLOGIZE) for the inference.

If you fellows would like to come back and have a "Personal Walk Through" on the project, I or any of the others members will be more than glad to handle a "Personal Thread" on your particular machines.

Kindest Regards,
Rick P.

First of all I don't tend to practice taking person's comments personal - your feelings have nothing to do with me. Second, I am not surprised that people are assuming I intentionally had planned to fail before taking on this project, perhaps you speak from a platform of more experience - where you have been in my position. I had thought that I had collected all the drivers appropriate to run XP on an Hp Pavillion Vista notebook. I did not "post on a forum asking where are the drivers (that don't exist)?" as my "Hail Mary". I actually researched the xp driver links through friends who have technical knowledge regarding my project, as well as the computer manufacturer directly. I can obtain the puters mobo skews, and OEM manufacturer etc... not a problem.

I will share that I would rather suffer (for my own personal reasons), a wicked death, rather than utilize Vista - on any machine I currently operate. I am not interested in a debate on why Vista is this and that, and the same for XP. I am a nub to (How to Geek)this forum, any advice as to how to directly attack this project, is greatly appreciated.

Regards,
The Bends.

Scott, I will be sure to become a "regular", hence a seasoned member huh ;)

Thank you for being a human being, and the links are appreciated!

Regards,
-Radioheads best record