Win 8.1 Trial was Horrible (hd, bios, monitor, blue screen)

[Jesse69]

I installed Win 8.1 Trial on my 250 GB Samsung EVO ssd. It could only display on 1 monitor and at max 1600 x 1200 resolution. I went to the EVGA website and downloaded their just released Oct 21 copy of a new driver for 8.1. After I downloaded and installed the driver my trial copy was bricked, - after waiting to finish booting maybe 20 minutes I gave up that it would only boot to a blank blue screen.

Worst was my fear my system was bricked in my other OS installs. Somehow Win 8.1 messed up with my bios setting and I have to reset them, making it default to boot from ssd. When I took out the 8.1 ssd and put in my Win 7 ssd, it booted to my other hd install that was faulty.

The short time I used Win 8.1 I didn't like it. It seems like they got rid of Ctrl + Alt + Delete, the System Monitor, and I didn't see much of a Start Button. I don't see how you could do much multi tabbed web browsing easily. And I didn't see Device Manager either.

So in all, I HATE WINDOWS 8.1! I guess I'll reformat the ssd after having Win 8.1 on it for only 2 hrs. I'd say MS totally bombed in Win 8; people complained with Vista but Vista was not that bad compared to Win 8.

I'd say Win 8 is a WORST OS MS HAS EVER MADE!

[NJBest]

Windows 8.1 has Ctrl+Alt+Del, system monitor, start button, tabbed browsing, and device manager. Did you get past the setup?

[plwhit]

Wonder if the OP has an issue with UEFI....

[Jesse69]

Yeah, I got past setup but when I put the new Nividia driver the install was bricked to a plain blue screen, not BSOD.

My MB has no drivers on it's website for Win 8 or 8.1. Well, I don't care because I hate Win 8.1, the 25 minutes I used it.

[adyn]

Predisposition for the win