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wasteoftiamat
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October 30th, 2012 23:00
Aurora R3 Windows 8 Support
Does Dell have any plans to offer any support for Windows 8 for the Aurora R3? I bought this machine because I was under the impression it would be easy to upgrade. Not only is it not easy to upgrade, it seems to be the one computer that cannot be upgraded to Windows 8. There's no logical reason for that, and I really hope Dell has some plan to fix it.
this really worked i thought i had tried it before, but after i just did it, well running windows 8. my pc worked just fine though two full restarts. thank you i had all but given up on a fix for the Alienware Aurora-R3.
FOUND THE FIX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Alienware R3 this has now solved everything and can restart just fine:
This worked and has worked 12 times in a row with no restart issue.
override the current Intel chipset, it appears to be the issue, and run this older one for now:
www.dell.com/.../alienware-aurora-r3
also install this:
This works perfectly... it's a shame that someone from the community was able to give us a fix before the Dell people could. Further reason for me to never buy another one again.
X1, thank you kindly for the help.
Regards
Windows8Doesent
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Posted October 31st, 2012 00:00
I'm in the same boat as you. I wonder if this just a scheme because we have older models and they want us to upgrade, so they aren't going to support these models that aren't even a year old, just speculating.
Alienware-L_Por
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Posted October 31st, 2012 10:00
We only support these platforms for Windows 8. no ETA on whether the rest will be later or not.
This line is not helping anyone, it's getting people angry. Dell will obviously support Windows 8 on one of their most desired PCs or no one that owns one will buy another premium machine from Dell. They need to tell us that they are working on it and estimate an ETA. That is the responsible thing to do, anything less will lead to a social media backlash.
I bought this PC a year ago, for a sum of 2000$ + taxes (refering to the Aurora-R3, of course), and you're now saying to me that you won't support it. Why the l would I buy Alienware. supposed to be 'top of the line', if the brand don't even support his product a year later ? With that said, I installed Win8 on my Aurora-3. It boots fine and everything work fine. The only problem I have with it so far, and I'll have to install a Win7 partition to make sure it's really the upgrade to Win8 that caused it, is that my internet is REALLY slow sometimes. I can normally download at around 5-6 Mb / sec, but since I passed on Win8, I have issue just browsing website because it's really slow.
wasteoftiamat
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Posted November 4th, 2012 20:00
With that said, I installed Win8 on my Aurora-3. It boots fine and everything work fine. The only problem I have with it so far, and I'll have to install a Win7 partition to make sure it's really the upgrade to Win8 that caused it, is that my internet is REALLY slow sometimes. I can normally download at around 5-6 Mb / sec, but since I passed on Win8, I have issue just browsing website because it's really slow. What did you do to get it installed? My R3 will freeze whenever I attempt the install.
Alienware-Luis_
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Posted November 5th, 2012 11:00
wasteoftiamat
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Posted November 5th, 2012 20:00
Thank you for responding! I will try it tonight.
SPComiskey
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Posted January 13th, 2013 11:00
This works perfectly... it's a shame that someone from the community was able to give us a fix before the Dell people could. Further reason for me to never buy another one again.
X1, thank you kindly for the help.
Regards