NightOwl

You are correct and thank you very much for pointing me in the right direction. It seems that with all the driver installs I completely forgot to try installing the Radeon HD 4650 driver through device manager. When using the exe, it will not install, saying there is no compatible device. It worked I thought I needed a complete reinstall after installing it, because on first restart nothing worked, 100% CPU, to the point where I in the end just had to hold down the power button to turn off the laptop. But second time it started great and so far everything works. In case someone googles their way here with similar issue, the driver pack + catalyst control from ATI has the filename: 9-7_xp64_dd_ccc_enu.exe and I'm almost 100% sure I got it from http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst...64/radeonx-xp64 You will need first run the exe to get it extracted to your HDD then to go to Device Manager and expand Display Adapters, right click "Standard VGA Graphics Adapter" -> update driver -> No, not this time -> Install from a list or specific location (Advanced) -> Don't search. I will choose the driver to install -> Have disk -> Browse to (Extracted folder)\Support\9-7_xp64_dd_ccc_enu\Driver\Driver\XP6A_INF\CA_84681.inf -> Press OK twice and then choose ATI Radeon HD 4650 from the list (There are three listings, I chose the first one). Press next and then Yes, when getting the update driver warning. NOTE: This is not a recommended driver. It isn't made for the specifically for the Mobility range, so you do this at your own risk. I had to restart twice to get it to run properly. You need to have net.Framework 2.0 installed. I read that somewhere while researching drivers.

That first link is the one I have tried several times to install in every way possible. I even tried slipstreaming in into the OS install disk using nLite, with no luck. I also tried taking the component search from the .inf for the VISTA driver for this laptop. No luck either. It's a HP Pavilion DV7-2135eo btw Yes, you are correct in there being an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650 (M96) Graphics card in the laptop, but the two are somehow connected... or at least I thought they were. When I try to install the ATI Catalyst control it says no driver for device. One thing I noticed is that my XP x64 installation uses in IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers Intel® ICH9M-E/M SATA AHCI Controller --- While my VISTA installation uses Intel® ICH9M/M-E Family 4 Port SATA AHCI Controller - 2929 Could this be the thing messing with everything else?

This is the only important driver I'm stuck on for my XP x64 installation. Normally a driver like that would be installed post install, but my problem is that the VGA Device will not run properly post install, thus the driver install says there is no device for the driver. Reason being, I'm guessing, that the device isn't even running post install. How would I go about slipstreaming the graphics driver and force installing it before first Windows startup? BTW I only have a little experience with nLite, but I'm a quick learner usually. If some other program or guides will be better, then I'm all for that. P.S. It's a HP laptop so I get zero driver support from them. But Intel release notes clearly state that the driver does support the Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset and it's an x64 driver package. This is the log from setupapi.log Platform ID = 2 (NT) Service Pack = 2.0 Suite = 0x0100 Product Type = 1 Architecture = amd64 [2009/08/15 02:03:49 820.236] #-198 Command line processed: "E:\WINDOWS\system32\mmc.exe" /s E:\WINDOWS\system32\compmgmt.msc #I060 Set selected driver. #-019 Searching for hardware ID(s): pci\ven_1002&dev_9480&subsys_3624103c&rev_00,pci\ven_1002&dev_9480&subsys_3624103c,pci\ven_1002&dev_9480&cc_030000,pci\ven_1002&dev_9480&cc_0300 #-018 Searching for compatible ID(s): pci\ven_1002&dev_9480&rev_00,pci\ven_1002&dev_9480,pci\ven_1002&cc_030000,pci\ven_1002&cc_0300,pci\ven_1002,pci\cc_030000,pci\cc_0300 #-166 Device install function: DIF_SELECTDEVICE. #W383 "igxp64.PNF" migrate: PNF Language = 0409, Thread = 0438. #-019 Searching for hardware ID(s): pci\ven_1002&dev_9480&subsys_3624103c&rev_00,pci\ven_1002&dev_9480&subsys_3624103c,pci\ven_1002&dev_9480&cc_030000,pci\ven_1002&dev_9480&cc_0300 #-018 Searching for compatible ID(s): pci\ven_1002&dev_9480&rev_00,pci\ven_1002&dev_9480,pci\ven_1002&cc_030000,pci\ven_1002&cc_0300,pci\ven_1002,pci\cc_030000,pci\cc_0300 #I022 Found "PCI\CC_0300" in E:\WINDOWS\inf\display.inf; Device: "Standard VGA Graphics Adapter"; Driver: "Standard VGA Graphics Adapter"; Provider: "Microsoft"; Mfg: "(Standard display types)"; Section name: "vga". #I023 Actual install section: [vga]. Rank: 0x00002006. Driver date: 10/01/2002. Version: 5.2.3790.1830. [2009/08/15 02:09:38 820.238] If any more info is needed, I'll check this frequently. Thanks

Just joined and thought I would introduce myself I don't work in IT sector, but I guess you can call me the go to guy, whenever friends have computer issues. Although the reason for me ending up here are my own problems. I found this forum by accident gathering info on how to get the drivers for for my new laptop for dual booting XP x64 with my preinstalled Vista 64, which don't particularly like very much. Had to register to post something. I'll probably need some help, but right now I'm just looking/searching the forums. Anyway, glad to be here. NightOwl

I ended up here through Google extracting .exe intel storage driver. Just thought I would post in case others end up here the same way. WinRAR didn't work at all and 7-zip extracted, but the files were unrecognizable. By playing with the command line below it did work. for mine it was IATA89ENU.exe -A -P C:\IATA which extracted perfectly and I tested by slipstreaming the drivers into install. My TOSHIBA MK5055GSX ATA Device Drive was recognized. These are the newest released XP x64 Intel® Matrix Storage Manager ver. 8.9.0.1023 released 7/17/2009 in below case the command line would be iata621_enu.exe -A -P C:\IATA BTW I extracted on VISTA, but the command line should be the same for other OS I think. There is another way to obtain the files and it will also work in the feature with newer releases of the drivers. You will need to download the Win32 setup of Intel Matrix Storage driverpackage from Intel.com instead of F6 floppy installer. After that you can extract the files from the downloaded archive, this can be done by launching the iata.exe file from a prompt or the Windows run with the following parameters: \iata621_enu.exe" -A -PC:\IATA This way the files will be extracted to the C:\IATA folder without installing them on your system. the files located in the C:\Extracted\Driver\ folder are the same as the files you will find in the F6 floppy installer. The command doesn't work for me too.