HP 250 G4 CELERON NOW RUNNING W7 32 BIT DRIVER REQUEST

[martin123456]

I purchased a HP 250 G4 (celeron)

I then wiped the W10 instal that was on the machine and installed W7-32bit OS and office. Now I can run office, but the USB and networking drivers are not working. 

The drivers for the HP 250 G4 (celeron) seem to be 64 bit only. Does anyone know if there are any 32 bit drivers for USB on this machine.

Hope someone can help - thanks.

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi:

See if the usb3 drivers directly from Intel work...

Download, unzip and run the setup.exe file.

https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/24503/USB-3-0-Intel-USB-3-0-Device-Driver-for-Intel-NUC

Or try this one...the file also contains the 32 bit drivers too even though it says for 64 bit only.

https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/24896/USB-3-0-Intel-USB-3-0-Device-Driver-for-NUC5-x-PY

[TheOldMan]

Just curious as to why not install Windows 7 64Bit, if drivers are 64Bit?  Save much troubles

[martin123456]

Hi PAul,

Thanks very much for taking the time to assist.

The second reference worked fine.

If you do happen to have any lijks for drivers for video or lan that may work that would be great.

Thanksa again - so much.

[martin123456]

HI Actually I bought downloadable copies of win 32 and 64 and burned to disk. I made the mistake of installing 32 and then found that the drivers were for 64. 

I then tried to instal 64 from teh disk I burned and the OS said it needed W 64 to run it!! So I seem to be a bit stuck.

So yes a good qwuestion

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

You have to boot from the 64 bit disk. 

You cannot run a 64 bit Windows installation disk from a 32 bit windows desktop.

That is why you are getting the error.

For the ethernet, you should be able to use the 64 bit driver on the support page.

Many of the 64 bit drivers have the 32 bit drivers too (and I should have thought about that yesterday).

However the graphics is one that doesn't have the 32 bit drivers too.

I cannot find a 32 bit W7 graphics driver for the celeron processor.

[martin123456]

This was good advice that makes sense in hidsight - thanks.

The following issue comes up : "windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems, Windows can only be installed to GPT disks"

I wondeer if there is a straightforward solution or whether I should stick with the 32 bit.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

Please see if this HP document is of help to you for getting past that issue...

http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c03445889/