This sort of dovetails with my experiences of getting 8 to work on an old (or should that be ancient) machine. However I decided that rather than me doing the donkey work with trying to get the ancient Sony Vaio VGC-V3M XP machine belonging to a family member to work with 8, I would have the folks at our local PCWorld shop do it. Okay so it was costing me £60 for them to do it but I didn't care as it meant I wasn't looking for drivers etc. So I am then told a few days later that they can't do it - machine too old and will have to refund me all the charges. So I asked about adding memory and the bloke says Fuhgeddaboudit just buy a new one.