How to search for HP discontinued drivers in the near future

[inuya5ha]

Hi, I 've exchanged an old, unused phone for this HP DV2700 series laptop and I can assure it probably was the best deal I've ever made. I simply had to replace one of the DDR2 modules to get rid of the BSOD, and replaced the HDD for an SSD as well.

I landed here looking for latest BIOS firmware version, which seems to be F.2E. However, I'm worried about the availability of HP drivers in the near future.

First, the HP site ensures you cannot even look for drivers that they decide to discontinue.

Drivers are currently hosted in HP's FTP server without an index page. The only way to locate my BIOS drivers (without help from forum users here) would be this:

- Deduct that the .cva file in HP's FTP refers to my dv2700 as dv2500. Not even Stephen Hawking could have done this.

- Google search for "dv2500 bios site:ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/"

- Find a browser that still accepts the FTP protocol. IE11 reluctantly did it, not without opening Edge and warning me that IE11's days are numbered.

- Download the EXE softpaq driver file by manually editing the URL address from CVA/HTML to EXE

Any second now Google will cease to index and show results from FTP sites. From that moment on, all CVA and HTML pages hosted in the softpaq server will disappear from the radar for any user regardless of his/her searching skills. My question is, how are we supposed to get latest drivers for HP hardware whenever any HP Commercial Operations Director decides to discontinue a product line overnight.

Downloading drivers from ad-infested websites is not the best idea, as 99% of the time the downloaded file won't be the correct driver, or it will include a chinese crypto-mining trojan in the best case scenario.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

Unfortunately, there is no way to solve the problem.

HP retires support for all consumer class PC's that have reached 10 years of age, and as you have already indicated, all the drivers are still there on the ftp site, but they have no references.

And yes, to make matters worse, it has become increasingly difficult to even access the ftp site.

I had to add it to my list of sites to be opened in Internet Explorer compatibility mode in W11 and I use IE directly to access it in W10.

The good news is there is one reputable 3rd party website that I trust and give the links to anyone that needs drivers for retired products.

Even if you don't trust the drivers from the site itself, it provides the 'sp' numbers and you can download them directly from the ftp site.

Here's the link to the drivers for your specific model notebook...

Drivers para HP Pavilion dv2935la (driverscollection.com)