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Well I'm finally back after several of the most frustrating days of my life. The refresh was NOT that simple. First, my version is the called "system builder" on Amazon, but evidently not called that by Microsoft. It will NOT allow you to save anything and tells you so. I backed everything up on...

Ok, In reading the tutorial about refreshing, I get bogged down on the simplest things. First how do I "sign in" as administrator? I am listed as administrator, but don't know how to sign in as one. While I was searching to find out, I discovered an article that said that window 8.1 upgrade...

It is a PC with an Asus M5A97 UEFI motherboard which is hooked up to a flatscreen TV and used as my main home system. I bought the windows 8 system builder disk in 64bit and had quite a time getting it installed with UEFI. I haven't checked on the safe mode thing yet, but will try it and get...

Thanks for your reply and assistance. I will try your suggestion of a refresh, but it may take a while for me to remember how I got it installed in the first place. I have a 64bit system with UEFI and I'm pretty sure I had to make and ISO copy. I don't even know if I have a local or Microsoft...

Definitely make a backup! I am not an expert, but did have Windows 8 working well before I decided to "upgrade" to 8.1. Now I have so many problems in so many areas that it' practically unusable. Unless you have problems now, I would really think about it. You can always upgrade later when some...

After upgrading from Win 8 to 8.1 my computer has become almost unusable. It freezes, can't maintain connections in Internet Explorer, has thousands of event errors, takes several MINUTES to start, and now causes the PSU to shut down during start. I does this with 3 different PSU's. I also...

I've tried several times to finish my reply and thank all who helped ,but can't seem to get through. If this go through, I'll try again with a more complete post.

Ok I'm finally in!! I couldn't make the USB install work, so I used an ISO disk I made from the original UDF disk to go directly to a GPT formatted hard drive with CSM enabled . I checked system with msinfo32 command, and verified that it is UDFI and 64 bit. I don't have secure boot yet, but...

OK! I finally got it working! I couldn't get the USB metnod to work, so I used to ISO disk I made by sending OEM UDF disc to hard drive and then back to disk through an ISO program. I formatted the ssd to GPT and left the CSM enabled. I checked with msinfo32 command and it says it is UDFI and 64...

Thanks All again. To theog;That's good to know as I don't even know how to turn secure boot off. To clumerty; Before I discovered the video problem, the boot problem was my main problem and I thought I finally had it solved. I've tried at least a dozen programs that worked for others, but...

Thank you for your thoughful replies. I have struggled on this for 3 weeks now and my mind is twisted into knots. Here's some more info I forgot to include. My current system is Windows XP 32 bit and I am trying to do a clean install on an Asus m5A97 R2.0 board with new OCZ Vertex4 SSD from an...

Hi, I am tring to do a clean install of Win 8 in UEFI mode and can't figure how to get a graphic card to work. Some advise turning off secure boot ( How?), but i can't even get started. When I disable CSM in my Asus M5A97 motherboard, my screen goes blank. I had an Nvidia 7300SE card which needs...

I have an Nvidia 7300SE/7200GS graphics in my 32bit windowsXP which I need to install 306.97 upgrade to for window 8 64 on another board. It won't install in windows XP. My new board is an asus M5A97 which does not have built in video. It is a HEFI system, so video card works when set to BIOS...