I've been having unending difficulties (to put it mildly) with a 450GTS and Win8. Ever since changing to Win8, the system, an EOL build, just won't work with the card. It's been replaced. There are other threads in other forums here and I won't go into the details because I've gone over and over them, and I want to make another point:
When going back to an ATI card, the system wouldn't boot and I couldn't get 8 to safe boot, even though I followed the steps. It is apparently a fact that 8 won't go into safe mode if it doesn't feel like it. I had to use system restore.
I now, after this and other vexing things with 8, officially detest the OS. Let's face it, it's a failure because they tried to force changes that just aren't ready or possible for this time in history, and I have now lost a hard drive due to the repeated crashes, BSODs, and power boots because I couldn't get it to do safe mode and some other things, and that it just won't work with the video card, even though the card works fine in a 7 machine of similar vintage and spec.
Thanks, MS, for this. Thanks a lot.
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Hmm, just for Ss and Gs, I did a google search:
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www.google.com/search?q= ··· irefox-aSeems enough people feel this way. I wish the world would support Linux in a big enough way that it was viable for me.
As much as I detest Apple and Steve Jobs' refusal to give to charity and causes, unlike Gates, if I had the budget, right now, I might actually BUY a Mac. And I've always built my systems!