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    m14xR2 Windows 8.1 issues

    Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by rtho782, Oct 25, 2013.

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    rtho782 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi all,

    I decided to update my m14xR2 from Windows 7 to 8.1, at the same time as switching to uefi boot (seems a bit quicker) and installing to the MSATA drive (I have a 256gb MSATA SSD and a 1tb HDD, using 64gb of SSD for cache and windows is now on the remaining 192gb of SSD).

    I'm having a few issues though, even after all the downloads on the dell site (is it me or are there many duplicates on here?)

    Intel RST manager won't run, as soon as I try it crashes. SRT Cache is working however, unless I have a magic HDD with a 400mb/sec read speed.

    Creative Recon3Di control panel wont run, crashes immediately, however system is using creative drivers (not MS ones) and I hear sound.


    Any ideas on fixing?

    Thanks!
     
    rtho782, Oct 25, 2013
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    rtho782 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Oh, also, the alienware control centre won't open, so I can't set the lighting colour...

    This is a bit crap :/
     
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    Hi, Have you try the latest driver from dell ?
     
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    i just done clean install 8.1 on my m14xr2 and everything is working great with latest driver from dell.
    For the command center, you can install windows 8 version command center..
     
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    That's strange, I wonder why nothing is working for me then.

    I guess I'll reinstall again.
     
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    This is command center driver i am using now Driver Details | Dell US
     
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    I'm redownloading 8.1 from Technet and will try another clean install. system file checker seems to think there are no issues, so not sure what could be causing everything to crash.
     
    rtho782, Oct 25, 2013
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