On Mon, October 13, 2014 11:26 pm, Scott Junner wrote:
MS-Window 8.1
Which, assuming it was preinstalled, comes with UEFI Secure Boot enabled. You'll have to: a) Build a partition in MS-Windows for your Linux to live. Yeah, horrible. Go to 'Administrative Tools' then Create and 'Format Disk Partitions'. Shrink an existing volume (probably where the existing MS-Windows OS is) and leave it as free space. We'll use it later. b) Optional but recommended, disable fast start up. This requires going to 'Control Panel' selecting 'Hardware and Sound' then 'Power Options', 'System Settings' 'Choose what the power buttons do' and uncheck 'Turn on fast startup'. c) Disable UEFI in MS-Windows 8.1. Go to 'Update and recovery' and select 'Restart now' under 'Advanced startup'. It won't actually restart, what it really want to know is *why* you want to restart now. So for certain definitions of 'now', select 'UEFI settings' and then you can select 'Restart now' which will lead you to a new screen with 'Troubleshoot' as a available option.
From 'Troubleshoot' choose 'Advanced options' and from in there, 'UEFI Firmware settings'.
Select 'Restart' to reboot your system in UEFI settings which will probably look very similar to BIOS. In that system, disable secure boot in UEFI, select the drive you want to boot from (probably USB or DVD) and then save and exit. Step 6. Install Linux. Which was a lot easier than the above.
Yeah I can restart the computer into Windows again by hitting the reset button and opening the DVD drive just before it tries to read.
OK, that's expected.
Which hardware specs would you like in particular?
It'll *probably* be your video card if this doesn't sort everything out. Hope this helps! -- Lev Lafayette, BA (Hons), GradCertTerAdEd (Murdoch), GradCertPM, MBA (Tech Mngmnt) (Chifley) mobile: 0432 255 208 RFC 1855 Netiquette Guidelines http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt