# getting drivers for old HP? backup current drivers?
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/getting-drivers-for-old-hp-backup-current-drivers/27897
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [April 19, 2007, 7:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/getting-drivers-for-old-hp-backup-current-drivers/27897 "2007-04-19T07:57:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2007, 7:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/getting-drivers-for-old-hp-backup-current-drivers/27897/1 "2007-04-19T07:57:27Z")
I have an old HP that I’m going to use only for web browsing and playing music on… thats it. It’s pretty damn old (circa 98-99). It’s a 533Mhz w/128megs of pc100 memory 😛 and supprisingly “barely” running XP pro SP2. I’m working on setting it up to just run/start the BARE Minimum of services and figured I’d just wipe the slate clean so to speak but my problem is that HP no longer supports it so I cannot find drivers for it online anywhere.
is there a way to backup the drivers that are currently installed on this version of windows so I can use them when I re-install it? I’d run win2K or 98SE if it wasnt for the fact that it doesn’t support media center 11 (need it for XM)
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### Author:  [@ryanmcell](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ryanmcell)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2007, 8:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/getting-drivers-for-old-hp-backup-current-drivers/27897/2 "2007-04-19T08:01:28Z")
Hmm XP didn’t detect them automatically?
[driverguide.com](http://driverguide.com) if you know what hardware is in it.
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### Author:  [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2007, 8:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/getting-drivers-for-old-hp-backup-current-drivers/27897/3 "2007-04-19T08:04:00Z")
see I don’t remember if it did or not so I’m a little sketchy about wiping them out without backing 'em up, just in case. I’d hate to not be able to get online as a result.
I’m installing belarc advisor now so i’ll try to id the hardware in it
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### Author:  [@zwarbyt](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/zwarbyt)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2007, 8:05am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/getting-drivers-for-old-hp-backup-current-drivers/27897/4 "2007-04-19T08:05:06Z")
LOL, i’m thinking drivers as in people driving cars, HP as in horse powers, i looked at the thread title and was like WTF is this engrish?
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### Author:  [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2007, 9:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/getting-drivers-for-old-hp-backup-current-drivers/27897/5 "2007-04-19T09:53:29Z")
lol nah
I just threw in a spare 80 gig drive and installing… if worse comes to worse, I’ll just throw the old one back in.
thanks
-steve
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### Author:  [@burnt\_toast](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/burnt_toast)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2007, 11:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/getting-drivers-for-old-hp-backup-current-drivers/27897/6 "2007-04-19T11:44:48Z")
[AIDA32](http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Info/AIDA.shtml)
Use that program. It will scan your hardware and tell you what drivers you need.
Hope this helps.
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### Author:  [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2007, 1:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/getting-drivers-for-old-hp-backup-current-drivers/27897/7 "2007-04-19T13:44:07Z")
seems to be running ok :tup: thanks for the replies