HP Compaq NX9600 PATA to SSD 120 Gb
I purchased for less than $100 a HP NX9600 Pentium 4 HT 3.40GHz 1GB 100GB laptop for my young grandchild. I have not taken it apart to check the hard drive but I believe it has a PATA interface. This ...
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Sometimes Win10 will use built in generic drivers for some hardware which may work OK in many cases.
Video card is one place where this most likely will happen, when that happens with video card you may not have as much resolutions to work with.
USB ports could be an issue depending on what chipset was used on the system board.
I have been able to use drivers for older OS to trick Win10 into getting correct drivers to load. Did that with a commercial HP RP5800 which is not supported directly by Win10. I was able to locate the chipset INF driver files for Win7 and was able to use that INF file to trick Win10 into installing the correct chipset. Without that Chipset driver, I had no USB ports (PC has PS2 keyboard and mouse ports).
Gather up the XP and Win7 drivers for that laptop, if they are a compressed format you WILL need to extract them using an OS OLDER than Win10. Under Win10, the extractor and installer WILL fail to operate (been there, done that).
So, you will most definitely want to get, extract the older OS drivers on a scratch PC with an older OS than W10.
The key here is getting down to the INF files.. The INF files are nothing more than a simple text file but in that file it tells Windows the name of the device AND what driver file to use.
Even if you decide to try W7, you WILL need to do the same thing for anything you have, MS stripped out a lot of drivers out of W7 and W7 relied on accessing the missing drivers on MS own Windows update site.. The site for Win7 drivers has been moved to a archived legacy site and you may or may not find the drivers you will need.
The biggest issue I have run into on the MS legacy drivers site is the drivers contained on that site attempt to contact the ORIGINAL location which no longer exists. Pretty much getting you back to no drivers exist..
I have run into this with Win7 and printers.. I got lucky for a all in one printer/scanner that I had a driver disc that stopped at XP, pointed Win7 to the INF file on the disc and walla, now had a working printer..
Sadly, it is very rare nowdays to get a driver disc, everything is done online or a download from online and support is non existent.
If you are going to play with old hardware, make sure you save any driver discs for future use..
Video card is one place where this most likely will happen, when that happens with video card you may not have as much resolutions to work with.
USB ports could be an issue depending on what chipset was used on the system board.
I have been able to use drivers for older OS to trick Win10 into getting correct drivers to load. Did that with a commercial HP RP5800 which is not supported directly by Win10. I was able to locate the chipset INF driver files for Win7 and was able to use that INF file to trick Win10 into installing the correct chipset. Without that Chipset driver, I had no USB ports (PC has PS2 keyboard and mouse ports).
Gather up the XP and Win7 drivers for that laptop, if they are a compressed format you WILL need to extract them using an OS OLDER than Win10. Under Win10, the extractor and installer WILL fail to operate (been there, done that).
So, you will most definitely want to get, extract the older OS drivers on a scratch PC with an older OS than W10.
The key here is getting down to the INF files.. The INF files are nothing more than a simple text file but in that file it tells Windows the name of the device AND what driver file to use.
Even if you decide to try W7, you WILL need to do the same thing for anything you have, MS stripped out a lot of drivers out of W7 and W7 relied on accessing the missing drivers on MS own Windows update site.. The site for Win7 drivers has been moved to a archived legacy site and you may or may not find the drivers you will need.
The biggest issue I have run into on the MS legacy drivers site is the drivers contained on that site attempt to contact the ORIGINAL location which no longer exists. Pretty much getting you back to no drivers exist..
I have run into this with Win7 and printers.. I got lucky for a all in one printer/scanner that I had a driver disc that stopped at XP, pointed Win7 to the INF file on the disc and walla, now had a working printer..
Sadly, it is very rare nowdays to get a driver disc, everything is done online or a download from online and support is non existent.
If you are going to play with old hardware, make sure you save any driver discs for future use..
