Grandcheapskate
Veteran Member
Hi Guys,
I just picked up an HP Pavilion G7 laptop and had to completely wipe out the hard drive without ever getting it to boot up with the existing OS. I tried loading the laptop with Win XP but apparently XP does not run on this machine, so I went with Win 7 x64.
I have Win 7 loaded and booted but my problem is a lot of the hardware needs drivers. In looking at the HP site there are many drivers for this model for things such as network and graphics and I have no idea what hardware is inside this machine and therefore which driver to use. So how do I decide the proper driver or is it a crap shoot - try each one until one does the trick?
Thanks...Joe
I just picked up an HP Pavilion G7 laptop and had to completely wipe out the hard drive without ever getting it to boot up with the existing OS. I tried loading the laptop with Win XP but apparently XP does not run on this machine, so I went with Win 7 x64.
I have Win 7 loaded and booted but my problem is a lot of the hardware needs drivers. In looking at the HP site there are many drivers for this model for things such as network and graphics and I have no idea what hardware is inside this machine and therefore which driver to use. So how do I decide the proper driver or is it a crap shoot - try each one until one does the trick?
Thanks...Joe