{"id":881,"date":"2011-12-22T23:24:26","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T23:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/?p=881"},"modified":"2014-01-07T13:53:45","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T13:53:45","slug":"dc7800p-x64-missing-drivers-fixed-i-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/?p=881","title":{"rendered":"7800p x64 missing drivers &#8211; FINALLY solved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re in rush, <strong>the drivers are near the bottom of this post<\/strong>. But first, my life story&#8230;  Here&#8217;s a little note to myself, regarding an issue with this model: <strong>do not even try to install Windows 7 Ultimate<\/strong> on one of these damned things.  It will install, but on reboot it will display the HP, BIOS splash screen and go to a black screen &#8211; period.  If you hold the power button in, or unplug it, it will boot properly again &#8211; but that&#8217;s a pretty unworkable set up. In other words, with some screwing around, it will boot every other time (if you unplug the thing after each use!).  I find it odd that the &#8220;Windows 7 Professional&#8221; version works fine &#8211; I would have presumed that the various versions of Windows 7 were all pretty much the same in terms of hardware compatibility.  Hey &#8211; the HP site got one thing right, anyway&#8230;.  Argh &#8211; there goes 5 hours of my dwindling life, again.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>RELATED:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul style=\"font-size: 15px;\">\n<li> Fix the same damned problem on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/2012\/03\/17\/1791\/\"><strong><u>7900e<\/u><\/strong><\/a>\n<li> Redhat 5.x, or Centos 5.x, runs HORRIBLY on a 7700 or 7800 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/2012\/06\/14\/2514\/\"><strong><u>SOLVED<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n<p>[hana-code-insert name=&#8217;AdSense&#8217; \/] <\/p>\n<p><strong>Anyway, I don&#8217;t wanna lose this stuf<\/strong>f.  I spent hours trying to get the device drivers &#8220;right&#8221; on an HP dc7800p, 64-bit computer with Windows 7. When the install was finished most of the drivers were installed, with the exception of two.  The missing drivers were for a PCI Simple Communications Device and something else &#8211; an &#8220;Unknown PCI device&#8221; of some kind. I can&#8217;t recall exactly what it said. I followed a dead-end trail of conflicting directions for half a day. I need to test everything one more time, but, this is what eventually worked.<P><br \/>\n<strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> I&#8217;ve tested this 3 times &#8211; it works perfectly.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nA couple of the steps, below, had nothing to do with the two &#8220;mystery&#8221; drivers &#8211; one is a chipset update, from Intel, and one is an update to the ethernet driver.  But  this was such a flippin&#8217; headache &#8211; and I tried so damned many things before this worked &#8211; that I&#8217;m going to follow this routine&#8230;because I&#8217;m crazy, I suppose. If anyone else uses this page: as I&#8217;ve just noted,  the chipset and ethernet drivers are just optional upgrades &#8211; do whatever makes you happy. <P> Anyway, <strong>here is the routine I followed which worked<\/strong>&#8230;and, as I&#8217;ve said, it includes two completely optional upgrades (the ethernet and chipset things&#8230;.):<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Driver Downloads<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li> Download <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/1_heci.zip\"><b><u>this HECI driver-deal<\/u><\/b><\/a> and install it..\n<li> Download this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ethernet.zip\"><b><u>ethernet driver update<\/u><\/b><\/a> and install the thing&#8230;.\n<li> Download <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/chipset.zip\"><b><u>this chipset update<\/u><\/b><\/a> and install it\n<li> Download <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/lms_sol.zip\"><b><u>this LMS_SOL<\/u><\/b> (shit outta luck? &#8211; almost) driver<\/a>.\n<li> Bada-boom, bada-bing&#8230;.it works!\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re in rush, the drivers are near the bottom of this post. But first, my life story&#8230; Here&#8217;s a little note to myself, regarding an issue with this model: do not even try to install Windows 7 Ultimate on one of these damned things. It will install, but on reboot it will display the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}