Windows 8 driver - Belkin USB/Serial Portable Adapter (F5U409-CU) Serial Adapter

If you are using Windows 8, most probably your Windows 7 drivers wont work.
You can find the drivers for Windows 8 of your original HP components in HP website
See Support - Download Drivers

Use the pebble 4 driver. I am using windows 10 and have tested on 8 as well. Download the Pebble 4 windows 8 driver and it will work fine.

Windows 8 has updated drivers as much as you would get from Asus built into win 8.

Go to devise MGR, if windows 8 did not load drivers, you will see a flag.

See what hardware did not load a driver and then use the win 7 driver.

You don't do anything to make a win 7 driver work, if the driver is newer, and signed it will install, if it's older then the driver windows installed, it won't install. If you see a flag and windows did not install a driver, then try the win 7 driver, or go to the MFG of the hardware and see if there is a win 8 driver.

You can also run windows update, if win update see's a newer driver out it might pick it up and give you a install option.


Now, your chipset, and most hardware has windows 8 drivers out.

The drivers are the biggest problem, the biggest problem for you is the BIOS was not set for windows 8.

So you could find even with the best drivers, win 8 slower or has bugs more then win 7 will have.

Me, I would bench test all the hardware with win 7, then with win 8 and see which one is better.

Click the link and scroll down to the Windows 8 Section
Windows 8 Driver

PrimeFilm 1800u will not work on Windows 8.
Here is the response I received from the company for the question:

Where can I get drivers for windows 8? Windows 7 drivers are not working on Windows 8.

Response:

Hello, This scanner will not be supported on windows 8, all of our USB 1.0 technology scanner will no longer be supported beyond Windows 7.

Wendy

Windows 8 is brand new and they may not have the drivers that you need for your computer on line. You may need to call them and ask them to send you a cd/dvd with the drivers for your computer. It is not always wise to upgrade your computer immediately when a new program such as windows 8 comes out. My advice to you is to reinstall your last windows back on your computer for now and if you want to upgrade to windows 8 check to see if all the drivers are available ahead of time, before you upgrade.