Windows 8 pro upgrade

See the problem I ran into was that I tried doing a clean install. The first time started this whole BSOD mess then I tried last night and would not let me activate windows saying that it is an upgrade only key and that a previous version will have to be installed first. I thought this was weird but so far, no issues. We shall see.

 

Did you try the reg hack and slmgr /rearm in cmd ?

 

No I didn't. I will save those methods as backups for now. I am willing to try anything. So far there have been no issues. I am installing programs now

 

So after spending most of yesterday evening pleased at my clean install of W8 on our M18x's, I noticed that we didn't have the usual system scheme click sounds in explorer. After many clean installs, I discovered that doing a clean install was some how leaving me with an almost empty Windows Media folder void of most of my system scheme sounds. I knew there was a problem when I stop hearing all the cool W8 Metro sounds.The only way I could get them back was to do a clean W7 install and then upgrade to W8.

 

That sucks gunner........

 

So far so good on the upgrade install. I installed all of my programs and have the necessary drivers. Not a glitch yet. Still keeping an eye on her.

 

I can't seem to get the quick launch/touch buttons working, any quick fix ?

 

Out of curiosity, did you install IDT driver along with X-Fi MB software? - I'm just thinking that for us guys with an R1, there is no Win 8 version that I could see or find....same goes for a few others including USB 3.0 for the R1.

 

I installed the IDT driver from Dell's site for the R1. It seems to be working fine. I do have some crashing every now and then when trying to play League of Legends. It would freeze in the middle of the game and screen would go blank. I think this may be a GPU driver since I didn't install the latest Windows 8 specific one. It is the same driver from the upgrade. But other then that, it is working.

Never mind, apparently the latest drivers which I have are for Windows 7 and Windows 8. There goes that idea. Maybe I will run League of Legends in Windows 7 compatibility mode.

 

I installed the IDT driver, seems ok.

 

No problem. I was able to successfully install every Dell driver that showed up on the Windows 8 downloads page for my system except the integrated Intel video driver (didn't find it, but I think I have it disabled in BIOS). The other thing I noticed is that they have two versions of the Bluetooth driver listed on the page. I installed the newer one (Comm_Broadcom_Win8_X04_A01__Setup-39W36_ZPE). Again, I have not run into any issues after doing the clean install *knocks on wood* so I hope others are equally successful.

 

Hey guys.

Anyone here experiencing Windows 8 reboots automatically?
I have had windows 8 installed on my M18x R1 for a week, with all latest drivers except the modded BIOS firmware A04. I first thought that because of windows update, but it still reboots even though I have chosen download and update manually.
Sorry If this topic has been discussed somewhere else, don't have time to follow up. Any advice would be really appreciated.

 

My computer likes to freeze in the middle of playing League of Legends and then restart. It is really getting annoying...

 

@M18xR1 users: Have you tried to install Windows 8 in UEFI mode? If yes, did it work?

 

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