MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: The ALL NEW Windows 10 experience!

My (brief) windows 10 experience on this tablet PC:
The HP Touchsmart tm2t-1000 has an ati mobility radeon hd 4550 as well as an intel gma950hd video, and it does some screen multiplexing through an asic (or fpga, unclear from schematics, but whatever it is is completely undocumented)

Windows 10 does have drivers for the 4550, and the gma950hd, but they have no idea about the custom switching thing, so both drivers try to drive the lcd panel at the same time, and the fpga has absolutely no idea how to deal with this, and stops refreshing the screen while it is still powered. This will probably slowly destroy the lcd screen (it does cause some pretty cool looking analog effects though), so I figured out some hackery to boot the laptop with the screen closed to make win10 use the hdmi or vga port instead, and from there rolled back to windows 7.

At least the win 7 license key is now digitally entitled to upgrade to win 10 in the future, so if I can ever figure out how to untangle that driver mess (apparently hacked drivers are a thing, see http://leshcatlabs.net/) I should be able to upgrade to win 10 later without paying $199.

(NOTE: I have installed win 10 upgrade without problems on five other PCs, so it is mostly 'obscure custom hardware drivers' which are being an upgrade problem from what I've seen so far.)

LN

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