Mischief

[puw]

Sorry to hear all your woes.

Can you not put Win7 on? Just an idea I appreciate this might defeat the functionality of the HP's original intent, but get back control of your hardware through changes that allow you to work.

I'm just trying to offer a diverse perception of a situation I don't know the details of, that may allow you to work and save you money to boot

[pauland]

I would expect any drivers that worked with Win 7 to work with Win 8.

For me the breakthrough Windows releases were Windows NT (which was very reliable) and Windows 7 (also very reliable for me).

My wife's Dell laptop often fails to do some Windows 7 updates because of missing this and that.

..but we have to work with what we have.