Windows 8 developer issues

I installed the Windows 8 developer preview on my dv6t with the intel/amd switchable card (6770M) (found here). I shrunk my main partition and put the developer preview on the smaller partition. The install went smoothly... I'm having an issue with the screen brightness. It says it's at 100% but it... isn't. It looks like it's at the dimmest setting possible. I'm guessing it's just a driver issue or something, but has anyone else run into this?

What other issues are people having with windows 8 preview?

 

only issue im having is an impossible time getting it to see cpu's #3 and 4 on my render server, and some odd ipv6 network traffic going nowhere. but hey its a preview and not even a beta

 

Yeah, i've had the same problem as you with the windows 8 developer build but i got rid of it since it's utter crap anyway.

 

i've installed the same ver yesterday, same problem like you but tks gods i found the way to solve this stuff ...

just disable and enable again Intel HD graphic in device manager....then every things gone fine

 

I'm only testing in VM(s) for now, no problems so far.

 

I loaded the x86 version on an ASUS T91MT netbook (Atom CPU, 2GB RAM) and it cold boots in 16 seconds! (UEFI system would be much faster)

The only issue I am having is that not many of the tiles actually work... only explorer, desktop & control panel.

I am looking for a list of what should actually work in this release

What are others seeing?

 

I tried to load XPro/32 and have the exact same issue. I believe it has to do with ACPI implementation as I needed to skip by ACPI.sys in order for XP to load. I didn't find any solution

 

So when you made your partition, it went real smooth as what you mention, so no problems at all. I'm thinking in doing a dual boot and going to use Easeus partition manager in making my partition. As from testing it on VBox, it has run good, I ran it that way to test out what I can install and what I cannot.

THank you

 

This could very well be a bios problem. Just give the original F06/F07 bios a try.
[Don't worry, flashing is very safe and the utility checks if the old bios is supported or not]

 

So has anyone one installed Windows 8 on a new partition without any problem to the W7 Partition on the HP laptop.

 

I have the same issue with my laptop. It's a DV7 something or other as well. I also can't boot back into my Win7 boot partition. I'll have to do a full win 7 restore it looks like. Tried repairing already.

 

You could use a Win 7 install or a recovery disc to fix the MBR. Then the Win 8 partition can be deleted and then integrated back into the partition the it was taken from in the Win 7 disk management utility.

MBR - Restore Windows 7 Master Boot Record - Windows 7 Forums

For now I am only using VMs or completely separate physical drives to install Win 8 to avoid these kinds of issues.

 

I was able to solve the not able to boot back into win 7 partition by booting unto Ubuntu. It sees that the file system was still marked as "dirty" and fixes it, and then win 7 boots fine again. Really really annoying issue.

 

same for me. Too buggy. I'm waiting for the beta or RC1. It is pleasing on the eye though and doesnt' use a lot of RAM.