Forum Home
Press F1
Thread ID: 137610	2014-07-29 03:09:00	Slow win 8 updates	linw (53)	Press F1

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
1380297	2014-07-29 09:55:00	Might pay to leave it till tomorrow. I think there's some sort of delay from certain places. Was downloading some drivers today, only 87MB from USA (gigabyte) est time 16 Minutes ( and it would have been) - :yuck: serious ?? Changed locations to Asia and came through real quick. Earlier tonight several sites in the US are either slow as, or wont load at all. Sons games he normally plays on have been slow this evening. Even had changed the DNS servers last week to googles, and then it was a lot better. Will try updating a few updates at a time. Ho hum Most of those updates do need reboots ( even if they say they dont) in fact several times updates will come through,and the remainder wont install till a reboot is done. Not uncommon to reboot manually 4-5 times before putting in the 8.1 upgrade.	wainuitech (129)
1380298	2014-07-29 22:55:00	That's interesting re slow downloads. Still working on last night's downloads this morning. Had another go last night and it got to 98% at the last stage of windows config. THEN it said couldn't do it - revert. Being 11:30 pm went to bed and left it, swearing quite loudly. This morning, it had reverted successfully (wow!) and it had installed 6 updates and failed the rest. Clicked on the 'Update' troubleshooter and it said it fixed an update component. Set it to update the 35 left and it looks much more normal. The display is showing the fuel gauge, as expected, and the number of updates done. Still has 9 to go so hope it has sorted itself out. Update:- it was still darned slow but it did update successfully. Doing another 59 as we speak but at the right speed! Thank goodness for that. So, maybe out of the woods with this dog. But still got the 8.1 biggie!! Mysterious what on earth was going on earlier. My time budget for this one is SERIOUSLY over. No idea how the unsuspecting customers were expected to go from 8 to 8.1 update.	linw (53)
1380299	2014-07-29 23:24:00	Clicked on the 'Update' troubleshooter and it said it fixed an update component. Could simply be a bad image from the factory. Had that a couple of times with HP Envys, damn things simply wouldn't update or install 8.1. Even running a full factory recovery - no good if the original image is flaky.	wainuitech (129)
1380300	2014-07-30 00:39:00	Could simply be a bad image from the factory. Had that a couple of times with HP Envys, damn things simply wouldn't update or install 8.1. Even running a full factory recovery - no good if the original image is flaky. If the HP OEM install had a non standard bootloader or non standard partition layout , for a HP recovery partition, would that screw things up upgrading from 8 to 8.1 ??	1101 (13337)
1380301	2014-07-30 01:33:00	If the HP OEM install had a non standard bootloader or non standard partition layout , for a HP recovery partition, would that screw things up upgrading from 8 to 8.1 ?? Guess its possible, who knows with HP :) If you have a look at the partitions in HP laptops, they can have 5-6 different partitions, remove any one of them and you're in trouble. (unless doing a complete wipe and installing from fresh or replacing the HDD) Even when cloning /imaging a HP drive it often wont work when putting back.	wainuitech (129)
1380302	2014-07-30 03:16:00	The 8 to 8.1 is not a good path, 1101!! Everything seems to be on the 'suck it and see' principle. WT, you were right about not having much to do after the 8.1 went on. Suppose the image gets updated by MS to keep it current. Really glad to be through the rapids and back into calm water! My download allowance has taken a big hit (about 7-8 GBs), though.	linw (53)
1380303	2014-07-30 05:36:00	Guess its possible, who knows with HP :) If you have a look at the partitions in HP laptops, they can have 5-6 different partitions, remove any one of them and you're in trouble. (unless doing a complete wipe and installing from fresh or replacing the HDD) Even when cloning /imaging a HP drive it often wont work when putting back. Yep, thats why I have an arsenal of 5 different cloning programs, sometimes takes 5 attempts to find one that can cope :-) Remember back when HP starting using bitshift instead of LBA HD translation as default. That used to cause more than a few headaches cloning HD's	1101 (13337)
1 2