I've been testing this Win Consumer preview for a little over a month now. For the most part it has performed just fine. No freezes and fast response for an olf spare computer. But I've noticed some odd behavior that I'd thought I'd ask around about.
Win 8 Seems to have a new method of doing updates. My Cannon MP560 wireless printer driver initially would not work, but when I did a re-install of win 8 the cannon drivers that were on the initial Win8 pack uninstalled them selves and allowed the ones from the cannon CD to install. This fixed the problem. Initially the system would not allow me to install the older drivers from the CD. Lately I've noticed that when I shut down my test system. The monitor shuts down(does not display anything), but the CPU stays on. Sometimes as long as five min. On several occasions the system has turned back on during this unexplained CPU activity. The monitor has come back to life and it's wait for me to sign in.
To me it looks and feels like Win8 is doing updates during this period, but why would the signal to the monitor be turned off? It feels like they are trying to hide what it's going. Today however, I left the system on for several hours and when I came back it was off. No notice that it crashed or anything. It was just off. I've never had a computer do that; if it was the Hw there'd be a notice and a logged even at least mentioning and unexpected shutdown; if it was software related there should be a long list of events in the logs.:huh:
Win 8 Seems to have a new method of doing updates. My Cannon MP560 wireless printer driver initially would not work, but when I did a re-install of win 8 the cannon drivers that were on the initial Win8 pack uninstalled them selves and allowed the ones from the cannon CD to install. This fixed the problem. Initially the system would not allow me to install the older drivers from the CD. Lately I've noticed that when I shut down my test system. The monitor shuts down(does not display anything), but the CPU stays on. Sometimes as long as five min. On several occasions the system has turned back on during this unexplained CPU activity. The monitor has come back to life and it's wait for me to sign in.
To me it looks and feels like Win8 is doing updates during this period, but why would the signal to the monitor be turned off? It feels like they are trying to hide what it's going. Today however, I left the system on for several hours and when I came back it was off. No notice that it crashed or anything. It was just off. I've never had a computer do that; if it was the Hw there'd be a notice and a logged even at least mentioning and unexpected shutdown; if it was software related there should be a long list of events in the logs.:huh:
My Computer
System One
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- Windows 8 consumer preview