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Can not revert to Win 7 from Win 8
OK, here's the story. I have an HP Dv7 laptop. I've had it about a year. I upgraded to Windows 8, but I have recently decided I want to revert back to Windows 7. That's when the problems started. Nothing wants to work properly. I can only go to select sites on IE, and even fewer site on Mozilla or Chrome. My LAN only works sporadically. The wireless shuts off whenever it wants. Any download or install that takes more than a couple of seconds will time out. Windows Update does not work at all. I've tried going to the Intel Driver Update page, but it causes IE to crash. Mozilla or Chrome won't even go to the site.
Right now I am only working with the Intel Chipset Installation Utility and the LAN driver installed. It's just completely buggy. This is my 4th attempt at reinstall. I actually had it fairly stable last night, but this morning it's buggy again.
I bought it used from someone and they had already deleted the restore partition. The funny thing is, I have done a clean install of this machine with Windows 7 PRIOR to installing Windows 8. It's like Windows 8 changed something in the machine. Heck, I've even flashed the BIOS to try that.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. I'm hoping I'm just being stupid and missing something.