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KB link: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4490511/windows-7-update-kb4490511 This update is in the Feb, March and April update rollups and at least one user has reported that it causes installation of MSI files to fail. Ref: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/45b92c66-deb6-4625-b1d4-95c6787850c8/february-and-march-rollups-break-windows-installer-junction?forum=w7itproinstall If anyone has installed this update, are you also experiencing this issue?

Not quite a blue screen, possibly one happened but was missed. Here we have a large building offering the choice to boot into Safe Mode.

If anything, there are some issues with this ROM that the OP is using. It has an RSA cert on it, so it cannot be modified like that, or (from what I understand) it can, but can brick the system when flashed, if the flashing util even allows it. However, that link has lead me to this other thing that may be useful instead, without having to actually hack the rom (or fd) file itself. https://www.bios-mods.com/forum/Thread-READ-FIRST-Access-Advanced-settings-through-EFI-shell?pid=56913#pid56913

The notebook I had in college, a Compaq LTE 440 CX, had NT 3.51 installed.

These Insyde BIOS are a real pain, there doesn't seem to be anything I can do with this as I do not have the tools. Everything I know about it involves hex editing and unfortunately there is no "key" for what is what.

I would try to delete them using an elevated command prompt.

What BIOS do you have? Is it actually Insyde?

This is the modern internet, everything is instantly old! I try to use VisualStudio as little as humanly possible.

Yes the Windows 10 DVD should be able to do a clean install. The surefire way to make a local account during Windows 10 setup is for the computer to not have internet access. On a notebook it may be difficult. If you have a physical wireless switch or Fn button combo to turn the wireless off, do that. If you can't, make sure there are no open wireless networks around if within your power.

I had to use one of those (which has a free, which has a trial?, I forget, I think I used the one with the trial version) to do a spindle to SSD clone when Ghost couldn't do it. Ghost is usually decent enough for cloning between PATA/SATA spindle disks, but apparently some SSDs it can't do.

@Willy Gee Thanks to you, this old thread is moving into Funny Farm. However if you post trash like this onto any other thread outside of Funny Farm, you'll be on permanent vacation.

Display\0000 is the wrong ID, I think the driver is going to be useless until the correct device is being made available to Windows correctly. Since the third party programs do see it, I suspect this device does exist in Device Manager, perhaps under hidden devices, as some other thing besides a video controller. Try searching for DEV_3185 in msinfo32.

If you look very closesly, you will find that you do not have a Pentium III, instead it is a Pentium!!!

How old is old? What OS was on it? All of the v3.x are Windows 10, so it could have been something older. I'd stay away from their website, it is SEO to bajeezus and back and frankly is designed like a crypto-spammer's site.

Normally, this would solve the issue with Ebay. As I said, the problem script that (appears) to cause the freeze is on the ebay domain, not an external one. So Noscript doesn't help in this situation because you need to allow Ebay in order to use it, as far as I am aware.

I have had problems with Ebay freezing up on Firefox and Palemoon. There is some part of a script on their own domains (rather than being one of the third party ones) that will freeze and make the browser go "not responding" but eventually it will time out and you can use the site. It happens most on item pages and has been happening for over a year. It also sometimes happens on Chrome. This is what my findings are in relation to the Ebay problem. - It freezes on my home computer. Windows 7 x86 with Firefox and Palemoon, but not with Chrome. - It freezes on my work computer, Windows 7 x86 with Chrome and Firefox. I will note that the freeze with Chrome on my work computer is very short, perhaps 1-2 seconds. I only notice it because I have all theme stuff in Windows disabled, so I can see the title bar change every time I click on an item page. When Chrome is skinned, you do not see this happen. And I agree, I can't find any reason for it in particular. Graphic settings all on or all off. I can see the issue in the inspector, but it comes from Ebay.com itself, some script that is obfusicated that I can't tell what it is trying to do. I think they just have some optimization issues on their end. And since they had redesigned their cart/payment portal to be for mobile browsers, we can imagine that the desktop experience is not high on their list of priorities.

If I understand correctly, the mechanism to do the upgrade is still in place, so I wouldn't be surprised if another free upgrade period opened up with Windows Update. In fact, it seems quite odd but Windows 10 downloaded by anyone from the media creator tool site can still do a free upgrade from Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 to Windows 10. And it is even possible to install that Windows 10 on a blank disk using a Windows 7 or 8.1 product key. All things that do not make normal sense, but I imagine they are making quite a bit of money off of the "analytics" and advertising and/or app store stuff to offset giving away a free OS.

I have to run Windows 10 on my office computer also, which I only use for email and intranet stuff. I still kept my Win7 system to use as the primary.

There are two things relating to that. 1. Never have the need to dump the firmware off the system for that. If there is one on the website, it is good enough. Also in my experience, firmware dumps can have too little or too much data in them as compared to ones provided by the manufacturer. 2. I would never attempt such a thing on a regular system, with no promise of replacement. One wrong thing can brick the notebook. I've done that many of times, but they were not a single system and the hardware was replaced. I would say that without a duplicate system to test learning how to do the thing you want properly, it would be very risky in case you end up doing something wrong.

Those are all in-box drivers... I don't think there would be any change, but you can try installing the chipset driver.

Not being Office 97, but I had once attempted an Office install with floppy disks and had a somewhat bad time as well. Rather than one of the disks being bad or unreadable, the antivirus installed kept detecting a virus on one of the disks. Of course, it wasn't disk 1. When it comes to long installations of software altogether, I believe the longest I had experienced was somewhat recent. Again I can't recall the version specifically, but it was some (then) newish (if not the newest) version of MSSQL. Installing onto the original "Unclesocks" took about two hours. This would have been around 2007 or so. And let's not forget about things that are extremely silly today, but was once something commonplace. Programs that had documentation disks. Especially things like Visual Studio, you had one or two CDs for just the documentation that would add to your install. Fortunately, those were always an optional thing during the process. In my first development job in 2005, I remember skipping the documentation install for Visual Studio since by that point in time, you could look everything up on the internet.

Null driver isn't really needed, you can just ignore the fact that the driver isn't installed in Device Manager. I guess if you are OCD you can write a null... Does the graphics adapter appear for another OS? If so, you can use Device Manager to do a view by connection, to see what parents it has. Windows 8.1 would have the same structure in theory.

The GPIO Host Controller should not have anything to do with the touchpad or graphics adapter. It is specifically for the use of I2C, SPI, UART, or GPIO. It is the type of device that, if this is for home use, you can be safe to not even install the driver for it if you won't use those types of interface in Windows. And, as is the case with some mobile platforms (including integrated systems) that use Intel chipsets, the hardware includes features for devices that are not actually usable. That is, the ODMs do not put the connectors onto the PCB that are required for such things. When you modify a driver, you will break the digital signature on the INF. This will cause problems for modern Windows OS unless you disable the driver signature enforcement. You can try any of these cabs marked from 2017 on the update catalog: https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=ACPI\INT3453 They use NTamd64.10.0, which would need to be changed to an 8.1 specific (I don't know the text) or just to straight NTamd64 in both places: [Manufacturer] %INTEL%=Intel,NTamd64.10.0 [Intel.NTamd64.10.0] %iaLPSS2_GPIO2.DeviceDesc_2%=iaLPSS2_GPIO2_Device, ACPI\INT3453 But as stated, even Intel admits that GPIO driver on mobile platforms typically just results in the flag going away, and the hardware being largely useless without the physical connections. https://forums.intel.com/s/question/0D50P0000490CCpSAM/question-about-the-intel-serial-io-driver?language=en_US

They both update different files, and from the file list, it would appear that both should be updated. KB4474419 seems to be specifically for enterprise environment, since it references WSUS, while KB4490628 does not.