Alright, so I finally had someone bring me a Windows 8 laptop to service, more specifically, to downgrade to Windows 7, and man, it was a pain in the ass.
First of all was figuring out how to get into the BIOS menu on this thing. I figured out all I needed on the OS in five minutes or so, but it refused to let me into the bios, until I found out that they basically use a hibernate shutdown, so I used the full shutdown command in cmd (shutdown /g)to let me do that, it took way too long to find out that info though.
Next was getting windows 7 to install, first it didn't like the GPT table, so I tried to use parted magic to format it, well, that didn't work, until I found the legacy boot option, that did work and I was able to install windows 7, however, after installing the Windows 7 driver for the display from acer's website, it turned fuzzy and totally unusable (this is the acer v5-431)
So, I tried going back to the UEFI, and turns out that it also screws up old versions of windows, not just other OS'es like Linux. The setup always froze, so I went back to Legacy, and after a couple more installs trying various other drivers I gave up, and have to keep the default "Generic pnp" driver otherwise it screws up.
Not to mention that most of my other ISO's don't work now, and I find out parted magic is now paid, I found a free download though. I'd pay for it once gladly but either a year subscription or pay for every update? hell no.
*sigh* all in all this has turned out to be a MASSIVE pain in the arse, and I have a strong distaste for UEFI in my mouth, I am really not a fan, not to mention how it will affect overclocking if I want to do that on a gaming rig I make.
Anyways after all this, when I finally have enough to build a gaming rig I am going to be looking for a motherboard without UEFI bios, unless something changes and makes it less of a damn pain.
It also doesn't help that the touchpad is acting up too, but hopefully some updates fix that. I just hope as new motherboards come out they don't screw over windows 7 too.
So, what do you think of UEFI. Do you love it or hate it?
First of all was figuring out how to get into the BIOS menu on this thing. I figured out all I needed on the OS in five minutes or so, but it refused to let me into the bios, until I found out that they basically use a hibernate shutdown, so I used the full shutdown command in cmd (shutdown /g)to let me do that, it took way too long to find out that info though.
Next was getting windows 7 to install, first it didn't like the GPT table, so I tried to use parted magic to format it, well, that didn't work, until I found the legacy boot option, that did work and I was able to install windows 7, however, after installing the Windows 7 driver for the display from acer's website, it turned fuzzy and totally unusable (this is the acer v5-431)
So, I tried going back to the UEFI, and turns out that it also screws up old versions of windows, not just other OS'es like Linux. The setup always froze, so I went back to Legacy, and after a couple more installs trying various other drivers I gave up, and have to keep the default "Generic pnp" driver otherwise it screws up.
Not to mention that most of my other ISO's don't work now, and I find out parted magic is now paid, I found a free download though. I'd pay for it once gladly but either a year subscription or pay for every update? hell no.
*sigh* all in all this has turned out to be a MASSIVE pain in the arse, and I have a strong distaste for UEFI in my mouth, I am really not a fan, not to mention how it will affect overclocking if I want to do that on a gaming rig I make.
Anyways after all this, when I finally have enough to build a gaming rig I am going to be looking for a motherboard without UEFI bios, unless something changes and makes it less of a damn pain.
It also doesn't help that the touchpad is acting up too, but hopefully some updates fix that. I just hope as new motherboards come out they don't screw over windows 7 too.
So, what do you think of UEFI. Do you love it or hate it?