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 <<< skipped >>