Sri Swaminathan Vanarasi asks:
I recently started reusing my old Compaq laptop and when I try to open any of the hard disk drives I get an error:
“The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005). Click to terminate the application.”
The operating system I was using was Windows XP. So I changed my operating system to Windows 7 and the error is gone. However, I couldn’t find any drivers for my laptop for Windows 7.
So please help me out to resolve the error OR help me find the drivers of Presario v3000 for Windows 7.
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Tagged: error message, find driver, hardware issue, laptop, windows 7
System: Windows
Tagged: error message, find driver, hardware issue, laptop, windows 7
5 Answers -
ha14
June 18, 2012perhaps from here
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareCategory?cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&tmp_geoLoc=true&product=1817059
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/ProductList.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=321957&prodSeriesId=1817055&taskId=135
you can also scan the laptop with drivereasy to detect drivers
http://www.drivereasy.com/
ryandigweed0
June 18, 2012Enable Windows Update, to ask you before install. It will search for better drivers, and when you open windows update, you will ssee a list of the updates. See if there are any Driver updates.
The Manual way is looking at ur devices through the device manager, and googling the device name for drivers. The Devices which dont have drivers will have a yellow/red or other mark on their icon in the list.
Otherwise you can use Device Doctor, which is a software that scans your hardware and searches for drivers. This is easy, but not that effective
yeah ryan i already went through the device manager and most of the drivers are not installed and the compatible drivers of win 7 are not available on net:(:( wat to do??
June 18, 2012Ok, well did you try that device doctor? and is your windows update on?? Can you tell me the drivers that are not available? Will try to give you the links to them.
June 18, 2012Bruce Epper
June 18, 2012What drivers are missing? There are 49 subversions of the v3000 in the US and 76 outside of the US as seen here http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/pfinder?cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&tool=&query=Presario+v3000
It appears this series was released prior to the release of Win7 and HP/Compaq does not have specific Win7 drivers although the drivers for Vista should work without a problem (they use the same driver model).
yeah i tried with drivers of windows vista but it is not compatible with my laptop:(:(
June 18, 2012FIDELIS
June 18, 2012Hello, a reformatting/reinstall of windows XP should fix the problem. As I understand it, XP is not installed in laptop right? If XP is still installed, you could try running the SFC command or a repair:
repair:
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/operatingsystems/ss/instxprepair1.htm
install:
http://www.buildeasypc.com/sw/windows_xp.htm
Usually vista drivers work well in windows 7 but as you said, there is no drivers available even for vista.
i did reinstall the windows XP OS.. but the error continues.. but when i install windows 7 instead of XP their is no error..
June 19, 2012and win vista drivers are available for my laptop model but are not compatible with windows 7
Hello, sometimes it can happen that there is some corruption in the installation disc. Only way to find out is this is your case, would be to try a different installation disc with same version of operating system.
June 22, 2012Ken Lee
June 19, 2012Compaq is owned by HP. If you go to hp.com you should be able to download the drivers from there. If not, call them. 1-800-474-6836. They also have chat support as well.