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Re: Intel HD 4000 No Display after loading Windows 7

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 14:40:15 GMT

I have been using an HDMI to DVI cable and have had no success. My motherboard doesn't have a VGA output, just HDMI and DisplayPort. I had already tried installing the updated INF files before installing the driver, without success. I tried two different monitors.

Really, the cable type should not matter. Electrically, HDMI is the same as DVI-D.

Re: Intel HD 4000 No Display after loading Windows 7

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 22:59:52 GMT

I tried the 9.x drivers - no difference. Have also tried deleting the registry entries and reinstalling - no difference. Very frustrating,

Re: Intel HD 4000 No Display after loading Windows 7

webadmin@intel.com — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 20:57:56 GMT

I'm astonished that Asus didn't see this with the version of the driver they put on the support CD. I see references to a 9.x driver - where does one get that?

Re: Intel HD 4000 No Display after loading Windows 7

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 20:28:25 GMT

Looks as if I have this problem too. I built a system with an Asus P8Z77-V Deluxe motherboard and i7-3770K CPU. I am using an HDMI to DVI-D cable. Windows 7 installed fine, and I have no problems seeing the UEFI and boot screens. But after the Asus setup CD loaded the Intel drivers and I rebooted, after the initial Windows animated boot logo, the screen goes blank and my monitor complains "no signal".

For now, I've thrown in an old PCI-e video card I had around, but I don't want that as a permanent solution. I will see if I can uninstall the Intel drivers, though I probably have to tell the BIOS to enable both displays.

Needs work - I guess that's why it's beta

webadmin@intel.com — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 02:50:26 GMT

I successfully downloaded the software, installed it and registered. I was annoyed that I was forced to supply a credit card even if I wanted only free things.

I downloaded and installed Boxee through the store. This seemed to work, but when I told it to launch Boxee, nothing happened. Same thing when I used the shortcut under Windows. Of course, I don't expect Boxee to be usable on most any Atom-powered netbook of today (perhaps in the future).

Some grumbles:

The AppUp Center web site tells you almost nothing - it doesn't even have a list of the apps available.
When installing the Center, it mentions free trials, but there's no mention of that in the store itself. I did find a mention in the FAQ here, as well as the refund policy. This needs to be more clearly explained.
The center software itself is very slow to load on my Dell Mini 9. It did eventually get there but took 3-4 minutes.
When I click the link for help and am taken to the Intel Communities, if I try to log in with my AppUp login, it doesn't work. I have to register yet another login.
The descriptions of some apps in the store have formatting problems - perhaps with non-ASCII characters. Where I should see an apostrophe in the Boxee description, I saw a square box instead.

Re: Different between A+B Stepping Intel X25 G2

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:59:54 GMT

A stepping, in the semiconductor industry, means a revision of one of the integrated circuits - probably the controller chip. Such revisions are usually to correct errors (er - "errata"). Intel publishes errata lists for its CPUs but may not for the SSD controllers. There won't be any functionality difference. Might just be a timing cleanup or some such. I can see that the product SKU changed.

It's also possible that it's a revision to the circuit board - trace change, part change, etc.

Re: Here is the way to simply an securely Erase any Drive (SSD, HDD, ...)

webadmin@intel.com — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:40:38 GMT

No, you don't understand. An SSD isn't like a magnetic drive - when you "overwrite" a block with zeroes, what actually happens, due to wear-leveling algorithms, is that a different block of memory is written with your new data and the old block is put on a list for eventual reuse. This is how SSDs mitigate the limited number of write cycles inherent in flash memory.

It is true that doing the "clear all" in diskpart will make it look as if the whole drive was zeroed out, but 1) specialized software would be able to locate much if not all of the old data and retrieve it, and 2) it would not bring the drive back to original performance.

The "secure erase" command is specially recognized and tells the SSD to erase EVERY block of memory it has, whether it is reserved or not, and clears the allocation tables. In effect it brings the SSD back to a factory state, returning full performance.

Even using programs such as DBAN, which overwrite zeroes or other patterms, won't really remove previous data and they won't reset the SSD's allocation tables. You need to use a program that issues the ATA "secure erase" command to do that, and diskpart won't do it.

Re: Here is the way to simply an securely Erase any Drive (SSD, HDD, ...)

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:25:41 GMT

From what I read there, this method simply does a format of the drive. It is not the same as "secure erase".

Re: DIFFERENCE BETWEEN 9.5MM AND 7MM - GUIDE TO BUYER

webadmin@intel.com — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 14:45:15 GMT

To add to what Ziggy said - the Intel drive comes with a plastic spacer attached that makes the thickness 9.5mm. If your application requires a 7mm drive, just remove the four screws holding on the spacer and you now have a 7mm drive.

Re: 80Gb ssd is now onley 8Mb

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:27:54 GMT

I have seen this problem reported with other disks, mainly SSDs. It appears to be a failure of the drive's controller. Get it replaced under warranty.