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This is my whole point - WU in 8.1 never did find any updated drivers for any of my HW, and it was stuck using the generic driver. I had to update it manually from AMD download. As I mentioned above, this did not happen when I installed WIndows 10, it installed the proper graphics driver either...

Thanks for the responses. You're right the motherboard's site has nothing, but there are plenty of WIndows 8 updates direct from Realtek for the NIC and soundcard which install and work fine when done manually. Even the bare bones onboard (ATI Radeon 3000) graphics wasn't installed just a...

NO, it took 90 minutes to do the upgrade install, 8.1 > 10 keeping all my apps and settings

Hi all, installed a test system using the common VLK GCRJD-8NW9H-F2CDX-CCM8D-9D6T9, the install found drivers for all my components but the drivers are old, appear the drivers are from the install media (they're dated 2013/14) the motherboard is a 2014 ASrock GC960-gc-gs, it has the very common...

I tried it out and looked for myself - PC is a 2014 AMD FX-4300 system, 8GB RAM, onboard video I used the MIcrosoft Media Creation tool and made a Windows 10 install USB stick. Used Macrium Reflect Rescue CD to backup the 8.1 system to a removable drive. Booted 8.1 to the desktop, inserted the...

For any situation like this where you're not sure if it's software or hardware related, simply create and boot up a Linux Live DVD and see if you encounter any issues running that

Thanks for the tip. However, I just checked the installer directory on my 3-year old Windows 8 install, and it's only 120 MB. I'm inferring from your post yours must have been quite a bit bigger

Isn't this the solution? https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001929.htm#disable

That's interesting. I will certainly keep an eye on it. I'll probably look at CPUZ to see if I can find any memory timing differences. The old Dell system has such a simple Bios, there are no settings like this. Perhaps it's some combination of Dell's expertise and Intel chipset

Hi Bree, thanks for posting info about this tool, it's new to me and I will look into it. On a positive note I enabled the AMD FX4300 "load performance defaults" bios setting. After booting the system, and waiting 5 or 6 minutes for all the Superfetch disk activity to complete, I started...

Both PC's running Windows Defender; I disabled it on the AMD box and I got about a second knocked off the startup time. I tried some other apps, the old DELL was always slightly faster. Perhaps it's the Intel chipset on the motherboard that gives it better performance in certain situations...

I installed NovaBench 3, and the Crystal BM, I don't see anything unexpected

I'm pretty sure the AMD PC has a 7200 RPM; can you recommend a disk utility that may help with some meaningful disk performance info? Or indeed any system benchmarks that might give an overall picture? Perhaps there is something in the real world operation that's a factor. The Dell is running...

I have not tried turning Superfetch off to see the impact, but I'm presenting my finding on one particular app, comparing two different PC's. DELL Dimension 4600 (2003) Penium 4 2800 GHz single core, 2GB Ram AMD FX4300 based PC (2014) quad-core processor, 4GB RAM They both have the same...

This might have something to do with hybrid shutdown (fast startup) in Windows 8. Can be disabled in the power options (powercfg turn off hibernate)

Can you install the Windows 7 drivers in compatibility mode?

Appreciate your feedback, it's very possible your explanation is correct. I remember when this system was installed, about 2 years ago, even then it didn't seem that it found any drivers, so I used those at the motherboard support to get started. I ran the MS program sigverif.exe, no unsigned...

I found a driver from the Realtek site dated 2020 that installed just fine, while the version on the Asrock site for my motherboard is from 2013. I know the MB sites often have much older drivers but if you search on the windows update catalog site there are 10 -15 drivers for windows 8 if you...

But you can see these newer drivers in the Windows Update catalog webpage. But they do not appear in the Windows update, client, neither is anything offered in device manager/ device/right click "update driver" (and no updates are found) This is what it says in file setupapi.dev.log when you...

I don't think it ever has, or I did something that stops it. Here's an example, motherboard Asrock 960gs-gs fx, Network chip Realtek RTL8111G, PCIe GBE family controller PCI\VEN_10EC&DEV_8168&SUBSYS_81681849&REV_0C The driver installed was 8.038.0015.2015 - I'm pretty sure I manually...