I upgraded my Windows 8 PC to Windows 8.1 yesterday and I am unable to reconnect it to my Homegroup (comprising of 2 Win 7 machines) or in fact get any communication between the Win 8.1 machine and the Win 7 machines. Prior to upgrading the Win 8.1 was part of the Homegroup. From the Win 8.1 machine: it initially detects the Homegroup as shown below,
it then asks me to choose file types to share and then asks for the Homegroup password which is when I hit problems as shown below:
In advanced sharing I have all 3 network types set to discoverable.
As part of the debugging process I discovered that the Win 8.1 was not time synced to the others, when I attempted to sync the time from the various time servers in the Windows drop down box I found the Win 8.1 encountered errors and would not sync. I was eventually able to sync it to time-b.nist.gov.
The other odd thing is that the keyboard does not work properly, specifically the characters above the numbers on the numeric keys are not correct, for example press shift 2 gives # instead of @. Have a suspicion these 2 things are somehow related.
it then asks me to choose file types to share and then asks for the Homegroup password which is when I hit problems as shown below:
In advanced sharing I have all 3 network types set to discoverable.
As part of the debugging process I discovered that the Win 8.1 was not time synced to the others, when I attempted to sync the time from the various time servers in the Windows drop down box I found the Win 8.1 encountered errors and would not sync. I was eventually able to sync it to time-b.nist.gov.
The other odd thing is that the keyboard does not work properly, specifically the characters above the numbers on the numeric keys are not correct, for example press shift 2 gives # instead of @. Have a suspicion these 2 things are somehow related.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Win 8.1 x64
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Self Built
- CPU
- i5 4430
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte Z87X UD5H
- Memory
- Adata DDR3-1600 2 x 8GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- Nil
- Sound Card
- Motherboard X-Fi MB3
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 47" LG LED
- Screen Resolution
- 1920x1080
- Hard Drives
- Intel 520 120GB SSD
Seagate 4TB x 4
Seagate 2TB x 5
- PSU
- Corsair 80+ Silver 750W
- Case
- Sharkoon Tauron Black Tower Case
- Cooling
- Deep Cool Ice Wind
- Keyboard
- Logitech Wireless Keyboard K270
- Mouse
- Logitech T650 Touchpad
- Internet Speed
- 100 MB/sec, actual 50-90 up and down
- Browser
- Firefox
- Antivirus
- Norton
- Other Info
- This is a media server PC.