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HP DeskDirect (J2973A) 10BaseT PCI LAN Adapter Driver Reviews

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
GABI
Tested on Windows XP
30 Aug 2008
(22 minutes after download)
 

Installation: 1 out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"100% not functional on windows xp/2000 this driver is for nt3.5 and w98 or less (on millenium can work) inf format is incompatible with xp"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Kenneth Staley
Tested on Windows XP
20 May 2008
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"Unlike the description...this is NOT for ALL WIndows. This appears to only work on systems running Win 3.1, NT, and '95. Worthless for any greater versions."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
D Brodin
Tested on Windows XP
22 Oct 2007
 

Installation: 1 out of 5
Stability: 1 out of 5
Compatibility: 1 out of 5
 
"Do not waste time!"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Poul Sloth, Denmark
Tested on Windows 95
4 Oct 2007
 

Installation: 1 out of 5
Stability: 1 out of 5
Compatibility: 1 out of 5
 
"a file "icmp.dll" was missing"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Fred
Tested on Windows 2000
29 Sep 2007
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"Downloading was horrible.

Page couldn't be found.

Used another way to get here and download.

Maybe temporary problem.

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Diego
Tested on Windows 98SE
24 Jul 2007
 

Installation: 4 out of 5
Stability: 4 out of 5
Compatibility: 4 out of 5
 
"Funciona en la palcas de red sci 9540"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Jorge Ng
Tested on Windows XP
27 Sep 2006
 

Installation: 1 out of 5
Stability: 1 out of 5
Compatibility: 1 out of 5
 
"Contains lots of stuffs, but doesn't work with Win XP."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
JAVIER GARCIA
Tested on Windows XP
11 Sep 2006
 

Installation: 2 out of 5
Stability: 1 out of 5
Compatibility: 1 out of 5
 
"DRIVER WAS NOT COMPatible"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
vm
Tested on Windows 2000 Professional
12 Jun 2006
 

Installation: 2 out of 5
Stability: 2 out of 5
Compatibility: 1 out of 5
 
"use the driver for the A&B card it is much better"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Don
Tested on Windows XP
2 May 2006
 

Installation: 1 out of 5
Stability: 1 out of 5
Compatibility: 1 out of 5
 
"Please don't say a driver is for all windows when it is only made for pre win95 versions.

Another waste of a download."

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
jh
Tested on Windows 2003 Server
29 Mar 2006
 

Installation: 1 out of 5
Stability: 1 out of 5
Compatibility: 1 out of 5
 
"archive says it works with 2003 server, no such driver in the zip file."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Trevor Newsome
Tested on Windows NT 4.0
2 Feb 2006
 

Installation: 1 out of 5
Stability: 1 out of 5
Compatibility: 1 out of 5
 
"I require J2573A for windows NT4.0 and it says this is included in the archive, but it is not. False description labelling"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
sylvain
Tested on Windows XP
7 Nov 2005
 

Installation: 3 out of 5
Stability: 1 out of 5
Compatibility: 1 out of 5
 
"driver is for win 95 and lower"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
velou
Tested on Windows XP
30 Mar 2005
 

Installation: 3 out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"It's not functionning under XP. *.inf file can't installed."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
steve

22 Aug 2004
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"will not install with XP"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Pat

25 Jul 2004
 

Installation: 2 out of 5
Stability: 1 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"Not working on XP"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Jeremy

9 Jul 2004
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"Hi, I want driver for J2585A for Windows XP... if anyone can help me Thanks."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
RobG

22 Apr 2004
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"Used on Win98 SE.

Installed using "Add New Hardware / Have Disk" method.

Works great."

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Iván Sánchez

2 Oct 2003
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"funcionó bien en un viejo Hp vectra VE"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
AndrewRacer

14 Sep 2003
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"El driver sí es, pero no baja bien, lo baje varias veces y no descomprime bien!"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Leonardo

23 Apr 2003
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"Gracias por poner en la web estos drivers tan viejos y necesarios... gracias"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Clive Pascoe

2 Mar 2003
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"I can't get setup.exe to work. It states bad command."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
John zheng

27 Jan 2003
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"My windows xp cannot find the HP 2973A Lan card during I installation the drivers."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
John Hall

9 Jan 2003
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"My Win 2000 found J2973 without any problem and it works fine. But neither 2000 or XP could find the onboard NIC on my Asus P4S533 motherboard."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Gert

6 Dec 2002
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"I am also searching forward a possibility to let my J2573A HP 10/100 Lan ISA adapter card run with WindowsXP. Does anyone have drivers ? Or does anyon know, how to make it with the Win2k drivers ? thanks"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
William Jones Sr

14 Nov 2002
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"I'm looking for a driver to make my keyboard work with windows 98. It is internet ready and worked with windows xp.I recently took out the xp and put in windows 98.If anyone can help I would appreciate it. Thank You."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
darkchicken

12 Oct 2002
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"I suppose it is impossible but if anybody finds XP drivers for an antique J2573A that I own could you please let me know. Because my attempts are in vain."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
JEB

18 Sep 2002
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"HP advised us that there are only Win98 drivers for J2973A. Has anyone been able to make this driver work in Window 2000 Professional?"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Danny Henry

28 Jul 2002
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"I also tried the drivers for j2585b with win xp did not work, if anyone finds them please email me at e_smith222000Yahoo.com"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Mikee Taylo

25 Jul 2002
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"Hi, mabuhay ang pilipinas! Nakahanap din ako ng driver! ü Translation (Great driver! ü)"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Timon Albers

23 Jul 2002
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"Î need the driver for hp j2970a for WinXP. If anyone have this driver, could he please send me the package via email?"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
aabaaiaaa

12 Jul 2002
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"I need to know if this driver will work perfectly on Win98"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Anton Alexandrov

7 Jun 2002
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"J2585A and J2585B driver for Win XP is at driverguide.com. You mist search for Driver name HPJ2585.zip."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Anton Alexandrov

7 Jun 2002
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"I search J 2585B dirver for NetWare 5 or NetWare 6 Please help me"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Stanimir

2 Apr 2002
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"I need J2585B driver for Windoes XP. Thanks."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Sergio Ceron

24 Mar 2002
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"I need J2585B for W-XP. I download and unziped this file but W-XP doesn't recognize the files. I havn't W-2000 for getting the hpddnd4.sys and nethppci.inf. Please help..."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
G Johnson

22 Mar 2002
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"Here's how to make it work on XP. Copy hpddnd4.sys and nethppci.inf file from a Windows 2000 machine. It will complain about it being unsigned and you will have to restart your computer but it works."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
G Johnson

22 Mar 2002
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"Yes I just tried this for J2585B on XP and it failed as well."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Liam Eastland

22 Mar 2002
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"This driver does not work with XP it tells me that it has an unexpected inf format."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Wigle Visser

11 Mar 2002
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"Could anyone tell me where I can find the drivers for Xp? for The Hp j2585b ??? thnx"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Philipp

22 Jan 2002
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"Please anyone, I need the J2585A or B driver for Win2k. I couldn't find it anywhere. Help!"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Rob Smith

9 Jan 2002
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"Thanx for the help. Driverforum hasn't let me down yet. Keep up the good work people."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
scott

2 Jan 2002
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"i really need the hp j2973a for xp thanks"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Remco

8 Dec 2001
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"Hey, I also need the drivers for XP. Best regards, Remco"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Eileen Kelleher

30 Oct 2001
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"I also need a new driver (or inf file for the old NT one) to load on WinXP, Thanks"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
HNR

14 Oct 2001
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"I need J2585B driver for Win2k or WinXP, the old driver doesn't work with these OS."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Masood Aslam

15 Jul 2001
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"I need J2585B driver for Solaris 8, Please arrange it ASAP, for this act of kindness I shall be gratfl to you."
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
badge
Tested on Windows XP
14 Aug 2006
 

Installation: 4 out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: 2 out of 5
 
"Poor but working, better than nothing"
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Nfclague

3 Jun 2004
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"You only have to look at the fileset to see that this is an ancient set of drivers. There is little chance of this working on XP."
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
JEB

18 Sep 2002
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"All of these drivers are on the Windows 2000 CD Hewlett-Packard DeskDirect (J2573A) 10/100VG ISA LAN Adapter Hewlett-Packard DeskDirect (J2585A) 10/100VG PCI LAN Adapter Hewlett-Packard DeskDirect (J2585B) 10/100VG PCI LAN Adapter Hewlett-Packard DeskDirect (J2970A) 10BaseT/2 PCI LAN Adapter Hewlett-Packard DeskDirect (J2973A) 10BaseT PCI LAN Adapter"
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