Argh, I missed this one.

My DELL, the one that was original shiped with Win 7 had a big problem with Win 8.1 The Broadcom card that is on board will not run with the drivers that come with Win 8.1. DELL does not provide a Win 8.1 driver - at least this was the state 14 days ago. Only solution was a new network card.
Also a new soundcard driver that was shipped bei MicroSoft was stopping media streamin out of the net. The one orignal shiped still works.


>I have six Win 8 laptops or tablets and never had a problem.
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>Have you updated drivers and firmware from the Dell site rather than Windows update?
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>>At first I got a Win7 from Dell. An XPS 8500 to be exact.
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>>Anyway, I upgraded to Windows 8 and was feeling good about that, but...
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>>But, I've had to "refresh" 3 times already because it went bad. In fact, I just did a recovery last Friday night because it was all crapped out and Windows Update wasn't working. And about 5 months ago I had to take a day off work to work with MS Support because Windows Update would never update. I was on the phone with them for 10 hours. In the end we did a "refresh" and I had to re-install all my programs and such.
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>>I have Dell Premier support and the last guy I talked to said this refresh business seemed pretty common as a solution from MS. The refresh works great and it is quick and all, but you lose all your programs unless you've created a System Image Recovery on a USB device and you recover from that instead of the refresh.
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>>Still, you will lose settings and programs that you've changed or installed since the last time you made your image.
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>>At work I have Windows 7. I had Windows 7 at my previous job. No problems at all. No refreshes nothing.
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>>At this point in time I can no longer recommend Windows 8.