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HP t610: Windows 

Windows

NB: There is an issue with the amount of Memory available to the OS depending on the size of the Video buffer. See the section Missing Memory under the Firmware tab.

I have a number of Windows examples here:

  • Ken installed his own version of Windows 7 Ultimate whilst Stefan installed Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit: more ...
  • David Lagrange used the embedded version (WES7P) that came with the t610. more ...
  • Jeff Witty installed Windows 10 on an upgraded t610 Plus using a customised installer. more ...
  • Andrew installed Windows 10 on the t610 using the standard installer. more ...
  • Ian installed Windows XP on his t610 and provided links to various drivers. more ...
  • Mick installed Windows 2003 Server Enterprise on his t610. more ...
  • Patrick built a stripped down Windows 11 solution to meet a specific need. more ...

In Feb 2015 I heard from Ken who installed Windows 7 Ultimate x86 onto the t610....

"It did install on the internal 16gb flash drive, but not with much room left, so I just plugged in regular mechanical laptop 80gb sata drive into the available socket and everything seems to work very well. It boots up and starts/runs windows like a regular desktop. It will do well for my dedicated application."

For the Windows 7 drivers Ken downloaded and added:

  • usb3.0 driver: Texas Instruments USB 3.0 xHCI Controller [Dead link removed July 2017]
  • audio driver: 32bits Vista, Windows7, Windows8, Windows8.1 Driver only (Executable file), R2.75
  • ethernet driver: Version 15.6.0.10 [Dead broadcom link removed December 2016]

Later he tried Windows 7 Ultimate X64....

"I have installed Windows 7 Ultimate x64 without any issues. The audio drivers were not needed for x64, the x64 usb3 drivers were the same as the x86 version, and the x64 Broadcom ethernet drivers were on the same page as the x86 drivers. Performance is faster. Also, I installed a surplus 80gb PNY SATA II SSD without any issues, and again performance is much improved, booting in half the time.

My thanks to Ken for the information. Ken can be reached via his website: qrpbuilder.com.


In January 2023 I heard from Stefan who had installed the 64-bit version of Windows 7 Home Premium:

Windows 7 does not include drivers for the TI USB3 chipset and the Broadcom Gigabit LAN Adapter. As Ken's sources for these were no longer available (David: dead links above that I had removed some years ago) I had the not very easy job of tracking new ones down. For anyone else intending to install Windows 7 here's what I found:

  1. USB 3 drivers - the USB 3 chipset is provided as mentioned by TI (TUSB 73x0 SuperSpeed USB 3.0 XHCI Host Controller, PCI ID 104c:8241). There is a reference driver provided on their webpage available: https://www.ti.com/product/TUSB7340
  2. Broadcom Gigabit LAN Adapter: This is a Broadcom BCM57781 Gigabit Internet Ethernet PCIe adapter (PCI ID 14e4:16b1). As HP seems to provide either a convoluted package including an extensive management tool or drivers only for Windows 7 Embedded the working solution after browsing around was to use the Broadcom LAN driver provided for the Asrock Z77E-ITX mainboard.

 


Any comments? email me. Added February 2015    Last update January 2023