After Windows 8 was launched, and I realized my current notebook computer was going on 7 years of age. I figured that I might go ahead and buy a new computer to replace it. Well, I found a Compaq CQ58-bf9wm on sale at Wal-Mart on Black Friday for about $180. I stood in line for 4 hours to get one and couldn't wait to get it home and try out Win 8. After dabbling around I realized it just did not work well with this PC. It would stop typing and the cursor would change places by itself at times. So I decided to turn it back to Windows 7 Ultimate, I just needed to find the drivers. After searching the HP site for this model it only shows the option for Windows 8 drivers download so I found a workaround knowing that windows Usually finds the correct drivers during windows updates. So I searched for the wireless driver for windows 7 for the following devices:
DEVICES SUPPORTED:
Ralink RT5390 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter
Ralink RT5390 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter
Ralink RT3592 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi Adapter
Ralink RT3090 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter
Ralink RT5390R 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter
Ralink RT3290 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi Adapter
The driver I found was SP58586 which came out for earlier CQ58's running Win 7 and supporting Ralink adapters. I installed this driver and this gave me WiFi access to start the Windows 7 Updates. Once Windows 7 starting updating it found the rest of the drivers that I needed for the LAN and for the AMD Graphics Processor. Once this was done updating all my drivers were correct and working properly. Below I have provided a link to the driver to get you started on your way to having Windows 7 on your CQ58-bf9wm notebook and get rid of the annoying Windows 8.
Driver Link: sp56942.exe
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