Win8 Locks up

Cammel

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I have two hard drives in my machine. One is a SSD and the other is a WD 64 MB cache 2 terabyte drive. I have Windows 7 installed on the SSD which works fine. I later, when I received it, installed Win8 on the other drive for a dual boot. It works, the screen comes up allowing me to choose between the OS's. Like I said picking 7 works fine but when I go into 8 it boots up, shows the Metro and is locked solid. I havent waited more than 5 mins but i get tired of it locking. Anyone else having this problem? I have 16 gigs of Kingston Ram, 2 ATI 6950 with combined 4 gigs. AMD 8 core and a ASUS motherboard. Everything was bought this year. Except for the Video cards. I am trying to update the ATI software but it is locked so i cant. Any ideas out there?
Thanks,
Cammel
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Win 7/8
    System Manufacturer/Model
    MRT Computers
    CPU
    Intel Quad 12 meg Cache
    Motherboard
    Asus P5Q Pro Turbo
    Memory
    8 Gig Kingston
    Graphics Card(s)
    ATI 6950
Does no one have a clue or am I being ignored? I said and truly mean I was sorry for my assinine comment in another post. Please help. I have an update to the problem. I got into Win 7, opened msconfig and changed the boot order to Win 7 first. Works great now the problem is the keyboard does not work during the 30 second countdown for the picking of the OS. I can wait the 10 seconds it takes now but i dont understand what is happening with the keyboard, it used to work. Win 8 never worked. Please help. Any ideas.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Win 7/8
    System Manufacturer/Model
    MRT Computers
    CPU
    Intel Quad 12 meg Cache
    Motherboard
    Asus P5Q Pro Turbo
    Memory
    8 Gig Kingston
    Graphics Card(s)
    ATI 6950

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Win 8.1
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Acer Aspire E1-571
    CPU
    i5-3230m
    Motherboard
    Acer Type-2
    Memory
    8GB DDR3 1333MHz
    Graphics Card(s)
    Intel HD 4000
    Sound Card
    High Definiton Audio Device
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Generic
    Screen Resolution
    1366x768
    Hard Drives
    Samsung 850 Pro 256GB
    PSU
    Generic
    Keyboard
    QWERTY
    Mouse
    ELANTECH Touchpad
    Internet Speed
    12.68Mbps
    Browser
    IE11
    Antivirus
    Windows Defender
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