[jward]

A916NR Drivers (everything works), may or may NOT work for other A900 Presario's. Install in order, reboot after each one. Note Audio and Modem will say they failed, run devmgmt.msc (device manager) and point it to the installation directory's ".inf" file. If questions email me (click name to send msg).
Drivers Installed & Order to install them...
Chipset driver
http://downloadmirror.intel.com/13499/a08/infinst_autol.exe
Microsoft Universal Audio Architecture driver
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp33501-34000/sp33867.exe
Audio driver (after it fails>run devmgmt.msc>clk. Audio Device>have disk>sp34386.inf
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp34001-34500/sp34386.exe
Modem driver (after it fails>run devmgmt.msc>clk. Modem Device>have disk>sp34777.inf
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp34501-35000/sp34777.exe
Video driver
http://downloadmirror.intel.com/13301/a08/win2k_xp1429.zip
Ethernet
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp32001-32500/sp32105.exe
Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Driver
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp35001-35500/sp35426.exe
Broadcom Wireless driver
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp34001-34500/sp34152.exe
Card Reader driver
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp32501-33000/sp32825.exe
Touch Pad Driver
ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/softpaq/sp25501-26000/SP25796.exe
HP Quick Play
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp34501-35000/sp34796.exe

Note: If you want to see documentation on most of these links, paste the link and remove the last "\ sp?????.exe" and you should get hp's directory. Note, sometimes compaq has files that hp doesn't, use the hp link but change "hp" to "compaq" to see them.
Hopefully this will help someone avoid the endless chats with hp and searching the internet.

[Vikingod]

Great post, I'm sure this will help many people out.

I've changed the formating a bit to better suit the forums, and make things more legible.

[Beergutt]

"A916NR Drivers (everything works), may or may NOT work for other A900 Presario's" some of the drivers worked for my A900, "A913nr" i am still in search of media card driver and web cam driver. i will post them here as soon as i find them for others to use. shouldn't forcing people to have to use a defective product be illegal?

[urville]

your instructions for my 916nr do not work for me. Those files never output a sp34386.inf or sp34777.inf.

[Jim23]

Can you help me with A916nr installation of sound drive?
I tried step by step but sound driver failed

Thanks,

Jim

[GSM MAMA]

Plz help me......

i need this driver for urgent............


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