I can boot Windows XP, Windows 7, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora and even OS X Mountain Lion on my Aurora R3 with no problem, but I can't warm boot Windows 8/8.1 ?! I think I'll never purchase any Windows as far as there‘s another person like Bill Gates being in charge of Microsoft. Since my Aurora R3 has no problem booting other system with EFI mode. I don't know what you guys think, I'll blame this to Windows 8/8.1. result: Working, no reboot freeze issue.Ģ. Between each test, I wiped out the entire hard drive.ġ.
Windows 8.1 lite efi update#
Finally I got Windows 8.1 installed to my hard drive (using GPT & EFI) I tried reboot several times, I still have this issue.Ĭhecked a lot posts about this, seems dell doesn't give us what we wanted - a BIOS update to make it compatible with Windows 8/8.1.īut, is it really the fault of DELL / Aurora R3 BIOS? For me, I think it's a Microsoft / Windows 8/8.1 problem. So I shutdown by holding power button, and boot again to complete the installation process. I hit F10 to save BIOS settings and restart, it freeze once again. I just wanted to start clean in case something goes wrong.Īfter the first reboot during the installation, I went to BIOS, checked boot section, I saw "UEFI: Windows Boot Manager" there and used it as the only boot device. So I made a bootable UEFI usb-drive (here's a great guide for doing this: ) grab a hard drive and completely wiped it, and disconnected all the other hard drives from my PC.
Windows 8.1 lite efi install#
To use that option, clearly I have to install Windows8/8.1 in EFI mode. Then I searched through internet, found out I'm not the only victim(and it seems like this issue doesn't only affect Aurora R3 owners) Found a post from a Aurora R3 owner saying after change BIOS setting to boot with "UEFI: Windows Boot Manager", I decided to give a try. Windows 8.1 did make some improvement, like we can directly go to desktop instead of start screen after login, we have the start button back - we can finally easily shutdown by right click on start button, but we still can't have start menu back, warm boot freeze issue continue exists. Same goes to RTM, and final release of Windows 8.
Windows 8.1 lite efi windows 8#
Since Customer Preview, I have none of the three features listed above - that's when Windows 8 begin sucks, still have the warm boot freeze issue. Back then, Windows 8 didn't looks as suck as it is now: we still have aero glass, and if you like you can completely disable the "Modern UI" (a.k.a "Metro UI") and have your start button and start menu. I had the warm boot freeze issue at that time, but I didn't care that much, because I thought it's a but of Developer Preview. I've been testing Windows 8 since Developer Preview. You can skip the first two paragraphs, I know I'm a little wordy :P Then if you have some question about that, please see what I did yesterday trying to solve this problem. This happens even during the Windows 8/8.1 installation process. Whenever you what to reboot your PC, you have to shutdown completely then bootup to Windows 8/8.1, it doesn't have any problem with cold boot (as far as I know) Every time you run into this issue, you have to poweroff by holding power button, then boot again. If you really want Windows 8/8.1 that bad, keep in mind you can never use fastboot or reboot. Tweaking Windows settings (like disabling fastboot) doesn't do any good. Neither MBR nor GPT & EFI will solve the problem. It's impossible to solve the warm boot freeze on Aurora R3 running Windows 8/8.1 (for now)