So who has upgraded to 8 so far and how was the process?

[finalhour]

I'd like to hear about how it went for those of you who have upgraded, whether you did a clean install vs. the upgrade, and for any tips you have about what to do before upgrading etc....

[phoniclynx]

The process was fairly straight forward for me.. I have the G55 model with the tiny little SSD drive and the 750GB HDD. My process was this:

- Boot up with Clonezilla and take a complete snapshot of the Win7 SSD to the 750GB HDD just in case something went wrong.
- Put CD / USB / Download Windows 8 installation
- Set up everything as per normal installation... Windows Update etc.
- Drivers
Go to NVidia's website and download the driver for the 660M chipset (works nicely)
- Install the drivers on the Win7 section of the ASUS drivers page. Note some drivers will not work. I found that I needed to get version 022 of the APK drivers to get the backlight of the keyboard to work.

http://support.asus.com/download.aspx?SLanguage=en&p=3&m=ATK_package&hashedid=n%2fa

Not everything is 100%.. ie the switching software doesn't work because its not Win8 certified... but you can still switch.. You just don't know which mode you are in (ie you see the screen brightness change)

Besids that I had no other problems.

[finalhour]

phoniclynx wrote:
The process was fairly straight forward for me.. I have the G55 model with the tiny little SSD drive and the 750GB HDD. My process was this:

- Boot up with Clonezilla and take a complete snapshot of the Win7 SSD to the 750GB HDD just in case something went wrong.
- Put CD / USB / Download Windows 8 installation
- Set up everything as per normal installation... Windows Update etc.
- Drivers
Go to NVidia's website and download the driver for the 660M chipset (works nicely)
- Install the drivers on the Win7 section of the ASUS drivers page. Note some drivers will not work. I found that I needed to get version 022 of the APK drivers to get the backlight of the keyboard to work.

http://support.asus.com/download.aspx?SLanguage=en&p=3&m=ATK_package&hashedid=n%2fa

Not everything is 100%.. ie the switching software doesn't work because its not Win8 certified... but you can still switch.. You just don't know which mode you are in (ie you see the screen brightness change)

Besids that I had no other problems.

Would you advise using something other than the built-in Windows 7 backup/image tools in the action center?

[martinsamus]

phoniclynx wrote:
The process was fairly straight forward for me.. I have the G55 model with the tiny little SSD drive and the 750GB HDD. My process was this:

- Boot up with Clonezilla and take a complete snapshot of the Win7 SSD to the 750GB HDD just in case something went wrong.
- Put CD / USB / Download Windows 8 installation
- Set up everything as per normal installation... Windows Update etc.
- Drivers
Go to NVidia's website and download the driver for the 660M chipset (works nicely)
- Install the drivers on the Win7 section of the ASUS drivers page. Note some drivers will not work. I found that I needed to get version 022 of the APK drivers to get the backlight of the keyboard to work.

http://support.asus.com/download.aspx?SLanguage=en&p=3&m=ATK_package&hashedid=n%2fa

Not everything is 100%.. ie the switching software doesn't work because its not Win8 certified... but you can still switch.. You just don't know which mode you are in (ie you see the screen brightness change)

Besids that I had no other problems.

Hi, I have this device ACPI\ATK4001 without driver, look at the device manager ...
What you have set in BIOS ? AHCI or RAID?
Thanks.

[phoniclynx]

martinsamus wrote:
Hi, I have this device ACPI\ATK4001 without driver, look at the device manager ...
What you have set in BIOS ? AHCI or RAID?
Thanks.

Always ACHI as RAID has a totally different use... You only RAID if your HHDs are a similar size and you want to strip/span your discs.
Most ppl wont use RAID unless they really know what they are doing as its more used for server technology than the every day user.

[phoniclynx]

Another point is that I upgraded my BIOS to 214. Some reported probs with one of the bios updates but I've not had any problems.

You will anlo need to get the INF drivers... either from ASUS or INTEL's website.

[polglase]

I've done a clean install on my G75VW... but now I can't play blurays. Any suggestions?

[RPXZ]

Any good reason to upgrade to windows 8? I have 3 upgrades to use, but haven't found anything to push me over yet... Good to know that compatibility is getting worked out quickly.

[bignazpwns]

RPXZ wrote:
Any good reason to upgrade to windows 8? I have 3 upgrades to use, but haven't found anything to push me over yet... Good to know that compatibility is getting worked out quickly.

None at all. Games i got maybe 1-3 fps higher why others had major problems with windows 8. And the ui is the biggest fail move ever. I'll be riding windows 7 and treating windows 8 like its vista.

[RPXZ]

bignazpwns wrote:
None at all. Games i got maybe 1-3 fps higher why others had major problems with windows 8. And the ui is the biggest fail move ever. I'll be riding windows 7 and treating windows 8 like its vista.

That's what I thought. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing out on anything. I'll stick with 7 for all my machines.