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[Derek12]

Reinstalled. The high CPU usage was fixed so now it runs at native speed, I don't know what happened before
It is really fast

Drawback: I notice graphic corruption in some areas of Windows, for example now I get them on the scrollbar of Chrome

All devices work fine, and I am trying some software, the only game doesn't run is War Rock, the rest of what I have are fine.

BTW where are the Windows games? I miss Chess Titans. I don't see them on Windows Features in Add/Remove programs





What a inefficient bootloader it has, I have to wait it to appear, and if I select Windows 7, it reboots the computer and then Windows 7 loads, I hope they will fix this in the final release.

 

[GodfreyOuwens]

What a inefficient bootloader it has, I have to wait it to appear, and if I select Windows 7, it reboots the computer and then Windows 7 loads, I hope they will fix this in the final release.

I think this might have to do with other drives that you may be sharing between the 2 OSes .. not sure though..

I have F:Files used on both installs and I notice that I have to reinitalize when switching.

 

[DRDNA]

Kind of kewl this windows 8...couldnt get windows MEDIA PLAYER TO INSTALL ON it THO...HMMM?
Opps damn caps..
Everything on my C2D Toshiba laptop worked straight from install.
No wide screen option tho.Guess I need a driver.

 

[Valenciente]

I'm getting some kind of error telling me that Windows 8 cannot run on my computers hardware when I get to the part of booting stating: Preparing system.

I'm using a dualboot with Windows 7 by the way.. *sad*

 

[Steve-007UK]

Kind of kewl this windows 8...couldnt get windows MEDIA PLAYER TO INSTALL ON it THO...HMMM?
Opps damn caps..
Everything on my C2D Toshiba laptop worked straight from install.
No wide screen option tho.Guess I need a driver.

You shouldent have to install media player, just click the desktop app, goto c: program files and look for windows media player and just click the exe, It should setup just like it does on windows 7.

I'm getting some kind of error telling me that Windows 8 cannot run on my computers hardware when I get to the part of booting stating: Preparing system.

I'm using a dualboot with Windows 7 by the way.. *sad*

Try without the 250gig drive that you have listed in your system spec.

 

[Valenciente]

Try without the 250gig drive that you have listed in your system spec.

That's my Windows 7 drive though xD

 

[Steve-007UK]

That's my Windows 7 drive though xD

Ahh no worries just trying to think of ideas to help you get windows 8 working

 

[Valenciente]

Ahh no worries just trying to think of ideas to help you get windows 8 working

I appreciate it mate But as it's a dualboot, I dont want to disconnect my main OS

 

[newtekie1]

Experiences with using a PIII and 512MB to run Win8:

Well, it is slow. Not I want to pull my hair out slow, but slow. Example, I click the close button on a window and it takes about 10 seconds to completely close. Now, I don't know if this is actually the Window taking that long to close, or just how long it takes for Windows to play the stupid animation of the Window fading away. Since there are no proper video card drivers, anything with animation is painfully slow.

At first none of the hardware was really detected, not even the NIC. So I had to connect a USB Wireless adapter that had Win7 drivers to connect to the internet. Once I did that Win8 installs every piece of hardware except the video card without me having to do anything. It just detected the internet connection and immediately started searching for drivers. I like that.

Now, a lot of things seem to crash when I try to open them. IE is a no go, it just keeps crashing. Now I don't know if this is because of Win8 not liking the system, or because of some fault with the system. I only have 2 256MB sticks of PC133 available to me, the rest I have are 128MB, so one of the sticks might be bad. Services.msc wouldn't open either. However, system properties and msconfig work fine.

Metro is totally useless, again propably due to no video card drivers causing extreme lag when doing anything. I just disabled it.

Booting and logging onto a usable desktop takes about 4 minutes from a cold boot, not too bad considering this is a machine that was purchased in Jun 2001, so it is 10 years old at this point.

 

[Mussels]

newtekie: your app crashes are likely because of no video drivers, you lack hardware acceleration that the apps are trying to use.

 

[newtekie1]

newtekie: your app crashes are likely because of no video drivers, you lack hardware acceleration that the apps are trying to use.

I don't think Services.msc is expecting hardware acceleration though, I could see IE being that way though.

Though the interesting thing is with the video card, it doesn't totally have no driver. It actually is recognized as "Windows Basic Video Adapter".

And I would hope Microsoft doesn't screw up so baddly that without video card drivers you can't even get online to download them.

 

[Mussels]

well this is a pre beta, so maybe the non hardware accelerated IE isnt working yet

 

[newtekie1]

well this is a pre beta, so maybe the non hardware accelerated IE isnt working yet

Probably. Oh well.

 

[Mussels]

and clearly hardware accelerating services.msc is a top priority for them as well.

 

[stinger608]

@Newtekie: I would guess your main issue is the age of the hardware your using man. I am dual booting with Windows 7 and 8 and it is very solid. My only issue that I have had is the DVD drive not being seen. Everything else is working rock solid as far as I can tell.

 

[Drone]

Drawback: I notice graphic corruption in some areas of Windows, for example now I get them on the scrollbar of Chrome
http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/4682/unledzvx.png

Maybe it's chrome problem? Because I got graphical glitches in chrome even under windows 7. But maybe it's particular w8 compatibility problem. I got an interesting glitch in MS Office 2010 SP1 under W8 in MS Word I sometimes get copy paste bug. Ctr+c works but when I use ctr+v it won't paste, very strange because if I use ribbon buttons the function works. So strange. I wish there was beta version of new office

 

[Derek12]

Maybe it's chrome problem? Because I got graphical glitches in chrome even under windows 7. But maybe it's particular w8 compatibility problem. I got an interesting glitch in MS Office 2010 SP1 under W8 in MS Word I sometimes get copy paste bug. Ctr+c works but when I use ctr+v it won't paste, very strange because if I use ribbon buttons the function works. So strange. I wish there was beta version of new office

Probably, though in my case I didn't get glitches in Windows 7 for the time being, I am using Chrome 16 beta on both OS'es Maybe is the POS generic driver, I will try to install the official and see.
Many thanks

 

[Drone]

Probably, though in my case I didn't get glitches in Windows 7 for the time being, I am using Chrome 16 beta on both OS'es Maybe is the POS generic driver, I will try to install the official and see.
Many thanks

Yes try to update drivers Btw fyi you can read nice article here
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/can_you_use_windows_8_your_primary_os

They said they couldn't get photoshop x64 to work under w8 x64 while photoshop x32 worked fine

 

[Derek12]

Yes try to update drivers Btw fyi you can read nice article here
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/can_you_use_windows_8_your_primary_os

They said they couldn't get photoshop x64 to work under w8 x64 while photoshop x32 worked fine

Many thanks , I will try to install the official ones and I will update this post

But, finally I won't use it as primary OS, that article is competely right, in my case, besides:

War Rock doesn't run
I don't see Chess Titans any more.
Once the computer rebooted spontaneously.
By mistake, I installed the 32 bit build

But I will keep it as "test" OS

 

[Drone]

Same here. I wouldn't want to lose some important unsaved file because of glitches. Tho it's really nice that W8 uses less RAM than W7. In the meanwhile I hope we'll get W7 SP2 with some performance patches (even if they're minor) before we get W8 beta xD

 

[Frick]

Bleh, drivers drivers drivers.

 

[Derek12]

Same here. I wouldn't want to lose some important unsaved file because of glitches. Tho it's really nice that W8 uses less RAM than W7. In the meanwhile I hope we'll get W7 SP2 with some performance patches (even if they're minor) before we get W8 beta xD

Yeah I noticed that, while Windows 7 uses more or less 50% of my RAM, Windows 8 took 30%. But may be because of the 64 / 32 bit difference.

I will wait for 7 SP2, but SP1 didn't brought much news

 

[Frick]

Baaah, the GPU in sig have no drivers that work. The latest drivers are from 2007 and for XP and they do not work. I've scavanged the internet for drivers for everything else but nothing works. Bleh, I'm installing Linux on it.

 

[Steve-007UK]

Baaah, the GPU in sig have no drivers that work. The latest drivers are from 2007 and for XP and they do not work. I've scavanged the internet for drivers for everything else but nothing works. Bleh, I'm installing Linux on it.

I just serched the ati site for windows 7 32/64bit drivers for the HD2xxx series and it shows some for download, Have you tryed them? If so sorry for asking. There is also a hotfix if its an AGP version.

Main reason i mention it is because windows 7 drivers worked fine for me on the HD5750 but could be because its a newer card.

 

[Frick]

I just serched the ati aite for windows 7 32/64bit drivers for the HD2xxx series and it shows some for download, Have you tryed them? If so sorry for asking. There is also a hotfix if its an AGP version.

Main reason i mention it is because windows 7 drivers worked fine for me on the HD5750 but could be because its a newer card.

It's for the laptop in the signature. It's Intel 915 Express graphics, which have no drivers for Windows Vista/7 and the ones for XP just does not work. It also seems the network is causing problems, and everything else. I've tried drivers for everything, and nothing works. So I'm without proper video, sound and any network so I'm just giving up.

I will install it on the machine in system specs though later, when I bother to reboot it.