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    Windows 8 driver issues HELP NEEDED FAST

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by martin541, Aug 3, 2012.

  1. martin541

    martin541 Notebook Consultant

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    hi guys i am currently running win 8 realise preview all has been working fine up till now the system had a major crash because of the amd driver running a 6990m the driver crashed then recovered this repeated 3 times then it blue screened and upon:mad restart ccc and the amd drivers have completely broke ccc will not open or nothing tried a reinstall of the drivers did not work tried a fresh install of driver using driver sweeper still did not work i am really pissed at this point tried 2 system restores both failed I AM CURRENTLY ABOUT TO REINSTALL WIN7 at this point

    does anyone have any clue how to fix this
     
    martin541, Aug 3, 2012
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  2. martin541

    martin541 Notebook Consultant

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    ITS OK GUYS AM JUST GOING TO INSTALL WIN 7 again
     
    martin541, Aug 3, 2012
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  3. Alienware-L_Porras

    Alienware-L_Porras Company Representative

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    We are actually supporting only Windows 7 at the moment and it would be better to go back to it. Here is an article on how to do it and the proper way to install the drivers.
     
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  4. goodstone

    goodstone Notebook Consultant

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    Windows 8 is not on RTM yet. You will get driver issues until launch.

    I have been playing around with win 8. Can't get used to that metro style.

    Why don't you dual boot win7 and 8 then you get the best of both worlds.
     
    goodstone, Aug 3, 2012
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  5. bigtonyman

    bigtonyman Desktop Powa!!!

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    I used both the 12.7 beta's and the special drivers that AMD released for windows 8 and they both worked fine. Did you install the dell drivers, and then install 12.7 beta over top? That's what I did and it ran great for a few months. :)
     
    bigtonyman, Aug 3, 2012
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