Review on 15.6" Notebook HP 250 G8 1920x1080, Intel Core i3 1115G4, RAM 8 GB, DDR4, SSD 256 GB, Intel UHD Graphics, DOS, 2W8Z5EA, black by Mateusz Zjc ᠌

When you first turned on the laptop cursed that the BIOS was reset as if the CMOS battery was dead, then I had to suffer a lot before I managed to install the operating system on this laptop. Initially, I set the top ten, booted from a USB flash drive and found that the touchpad did not work on the laptop. I connected an external mouse, although it was possible to get by with a keyboard, then the installer did not see the hard drives. To solve this problem, you need to go to the HP website on the page of this laptop from another computer and download the Intel Rapid Storage Technology driver, unpack it, save it to a USB flash drive and insert it into the laptop when installing Windows. In the hard drive selection window, you need to load the drivers and then the built-in SSD drive will appear in the list. I started the installation, after the first reboot, the laptop started to crash into a blue screen with an Inaccessible Boot Device error, it was not possible to defeat this error with any other dozens of distributions. I started installing Windows 11, the installer said at the first start that it was not possible to run Windows 11 on this computer - we climb into the BIOS and turn on TPM, now Windows 11 allows itself to be installed. Also, during installation, the touchpad does not work and does not see hard drives, but we already know - we load the Intel Rapid Storage drivers and start the installation. Windows 11 installed without problems, booted from 1 time, then it turned out that even in Windows the touchpad and sound do not work. I go into the device manager, and there is a bunch of unidentified equipment, since Windows itself found and downloaded drivers for them, in the end, it seems like everything started up and even the touchpad worked. For the first time I see a laptop that even needs its own exotic drivers for the touchpad to work, the touchpads in laptops have always worked like classic HID devices. I hope my treatise will help and save you your nerves.