[AccessD] Windows 8.1

Salakhetdinov Shamil mcp2004 at mail.ru
Tue Nov 5 03:34:54 CST 2013


 Hi Arthur --

Did you get Win 8.1 installed over Win 8? I have seen here Gustav's recommendations to setup Win8.1 on a clean PC but I'd prefer to avoid this path and to have my Win8.1 upgrade setup to run over on my Win8 system.

Thank you.

-- Shamil

Monday, November  4, 2013 5:15 PM -05:00 from Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>:
>Boy o boy o boy. I don't know what I did right but I have none of these
>issues. I bought a Dell laptop recently, a fargin' whopper, 8GB RAM and 1TB
>hard disk, and Windas 8. HD Died; I phoned Dell and they couriered a
>shipping box to me, pre-stamped with From and To addresses. I boxed the
>laptop and phoned Purolator and they fetched it and two days later I got
>the laptop back, fresh with a new copy of Windows 8. Turned out that was
>the day that the free download of 8.1 became available, so I bit the bullet
>and now 8.1 is installed. And everything worked perfectly and I am a happy
>camper.
>
>
>On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Jim Lawrence < accessd at shaw.ca > wrote:
>
>> Hi Paul:
>>
>> I have had a similar situation with installing Windows 8 on a client's
>> computer. It seems that the graphic accelerator had to be set on (or was it
>> off?), in the BIOS, on the computer. This is just a wild suggestion.
>>
>> Also, depending on the motherboard, the latest hardware driver upgrades
>> must be installed first before attempting to install Windows 8. Windows 8.x
>> seems to have not problem installing on the latest hardware but there
>> appears to have been little effort on supporting legacy hardware (4-5 years
>> or older) and if that hardware does not support a UEFI upgrade, there can
>> be more issues.
>>
>> Jim
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