KaityVoivre Posted September 18, 2014 Share Posted September 18, 2014 I recently decided to dual boot Windows 7 Ultimate and Windows 8 Pro, but Windows 8 is giving me a headache. I'm not sure what's wrong at all and I've tried everything I can think of to fix it. The computer freezes sometimes randomly, but mainly when I go on the internet or play a video file or something. I've tried repair install and a clean install among a million other things.I've seen others online with the M17xR1 upgrade to Windows 8 without problem, but mine seems to just resist it by freezing and BSOD. The thing is, the system runs flawlessly on Windows 7 and I really want Windows 8 to work.I'm also having an issue getting my GTX 260M to upgrade, the computer keeps telling me it can't find a compatible driver or something like that when I try to install the newest update from NVIDIA's website. I half want to just smash this thing with a baseball bat and be done with it, so please help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaityVoivre Posted September 25, 2014 Author Share Posted September 25, 2014 I somehow got the freezing/ BSOD issue to stop, but I tried playing Star Trek Online on the video driver Dell lists under the drivers for my R1 and I can't seem to update the driver. I edited the file as I previously did on Windows 7 (the .inf file) which seemed to force the compatibility thing before the edit (presumably because Dell locked R1s from updating the driver?) on 7, but on 8 it starts installing and then comes back and says it failed. I've tried clean install and everything.I would really like to get 340.52 on my laptop ASAP, please help me resolve this as it's my only remaining issue on this machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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