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    Problems with 8440p and Win8.1 - solveable with hardware upgrade or revert to Win 7

    Discussion in 'HP Business Class Notebooks' started by purplegreendave, Jan 27, 2015.

  1. purplegreendave

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    I have an 8440p with an i5-540M
    I liked 8 and upgraded to 8.1 on the machine, however I've encountered some problems.

    Firstly, and the biggest impact, is that I can't find up to date drivers for the Intel Graphics. It seems as though there was some change in 8.1 where demands on graphics changed and Intel failed to keep up. Windows update has an update for Intel Corporation driver update for Intel(R) HD Graphics but it fails every time. It causes some issues for me with brightness controls, and will often crash or hang waking from sleep.

    Secondly, the wifi card is horrendous. It drops the connection almost every 10 minutes, even when it has full signal. I've tried another wifi card but it seems like only BIOS approved cards work in the system.



    Are there any hardware upgrades I could make to fix these issues? I know there's a limited amount of compatible processors, and whatever I upgrade to would need integrated graphics too.

    I could also just revert to Win 7, but I really like the SSD performance of 8.1 (I have a Samsung Evo in the HDD bay with the original spinning disk in a caddy in the optical drive bay).
     
    purplegreendave, Jan 27, 2015
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