2014-01-05:
Hello !!! I just want to thank you for your posting. It was really useful.
We purchased a G6 – 2240ca for my Mom and she didn’t like at all the new interface W8. I retrofit the laptop to W7 (purchase a new licence – Only W8 prof is allow to ‘legally’ downgrade to W7 prof) – What a rip-off by Microsoft$.
Anyway, I reinstall everything not without some little challenges … But thank to this post, it was a lot easier.
As a final note, some drivers were a bit more difficult to find. I found this tool that identifies all my missing drivers, the hardware component associated, the version I installed and if an upgrade was available. It’s call Driver Identifier. I just used the information panel and did the update manually.
I tough it might be useful if you get stuck on a unknown device with no drivers like me for the USB 3.0 and SM Bus.
Regards,
Denis.