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Hi,

has anyone else had problems upgrading their laptop with the Intel Corporation - Display - Mobile Intel® 4 Series Express Chipset Family

Download size: 22.1 MB

You may need to restart your computer for this update to take effect.

Update type: Optional

Intel Corporation Display software update released in February, 2010

More information:
/>http://winqual.microsoft.com/support/?driverid=20338227

Help and Support:
/>http://support.microsoft.com/select/?target=hub

(Intel Corporation-Dispaly-Mobile- Intel ® Series Express

I've had to re-install everything twice whilst I tried to find out which update was causing havoc! It's definitely the above....everything loads up but as I can't get past the Windows starting screen or see my mouse pointer.....I'm flummoxed.

Any thoughts?

Gordy

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The salient point to me is the term "Optional" and the fact that Microsoft are, yet again, interfering with other manufacturers updates and drivers.

I work on the well tried philosophy of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". I've had to look at so many machines in the past that have been damaged by these unnecessary and inappropriate updates issued by companies (especially MS) who, under the pretext of offering help, do exactly the opposite.

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In retrospect....probably not wise to have downloaded and installed it in the first place...and even more stupid of me to go through the long-winded process of elimination to identify this download as the problem, but foolishly, I didn't realise that Microsoft would offer me an inappropriate download that could crash the PC completely!! Luckily, this time, I only lost 6 weeks worth of e-mails as my photos were still on my camera but it could have been worse. I re-installed with Acronis True Image 2010, not without teething troubles either, as the bootable disk I had created only got so far and then the screen froze, I had to do a recover from the original software supplied with the PC and then install Acronis and subsequently recover my files.

A lot of bother for a little upgrade!

Anyway... thanks for the advice.

Gordy

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