CF-18K MK4 with WIN8

Hello guys !
Just the other days I have remove the HDD from CF-18K and put another one with the intention to install a WIN7 on it... just to see how it go.
All went fine except the shortcut buttons... I didnt struggle to make them work because in the next moment I thought to WIN8 .... what if I install...
So I got a WIN8 kit and install...
Except that idiotic Metro interface, WIN8 move amazing on this poor 100MHz FSB computer.
The main issue about this combination WIN8 + CF-18K is the graphics Mobile Intel® 915GM/GMS, 910GML Express Chipset Family
Anybody have knowlege to write a unsigned custom driver ? I have browse a little with the google and what I observe that is a global matter with this chipset graphics... not just in ToughBook's, but in all laptops equiped with it.
Intel say something about some hw incompatibility but also said that in the future a driver might be available only through windows update center only.
In this moment the graphics go with a Basic driver offered by the Microsoft included on the install kit. It's performace is weak for avi or flash.
Anybody succeed to obtain a better resoult with the Mobile Intel® 915GM/GMS, 910GML Express Chipset Family and the WIN8 ?
Regards.

 

Not mine, but the best explanation I have seen of the problem.

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Well the blame is accurately stated - the 915GM driver does not support WDDM, only XPDM. XPDM driver support does not exist in Windows 8, and Intel did not release an updated WDDM driver (and, in fact, didn't update it for WDDM 1.0 in Vista, so I guess it's no surprise they didn't write a WDDM 1.1 for Win7 or WDDM 1.2 for Windows 8).


Given Windows 8 is now fully hardware-accelerated for the UI, you can't get by with the old legacy XPDM driver subsystem anymore, because that doesn't support the things Windows 8's UI now require. Given the 945GM started showing up in mid/late 2005, and the 915G/GM was out at the beginning of 2004, that chipset predates Vista by 2 years. Unfortunately,if you bought or built a machine with the 915GM chipset after that date (and I believe that shuttle of yours originally hit the market near the end of 2005), that's simply going to need a video card upgrade to run Windows 8, or you'll have to stick with Windows 7. The minimum requirements for running Windows 8 includes a video chipset with WDDM 1.0 (at least) support:


For the record, Microsoft did not state that anything running Windows 7 would run Windows 8 - they said the hardware requirements would be the same, or lower. And in fact, running the full Windows 7 experience (accelerated desktop/Aero) did require a WDDM driver - so, basically, the hardware requirements stayed the same, minus the ability to run the unaccelerated driver set known as XPDM: (End Quote)



I did see a few links where people have tried to mod there own drivers for this, they only partly worked. I would of posted up the links but they are dead links. I have seen where people took a newer chipset say 945 drivers and re-did them to work on older chipset, right now I don't see a clear cut solution for this problem. The way desktop users with this chipset have been getting around it is to use a newer graphics card, that way everything works right though the newer graphics. Laptop users don't really have that option.

 

Metro is wonderful, just don't be that conservative.
You can't install another graphics driver, but it's easy to install chipset drivers in Win7 compatibility mode.