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[sreevatsen]

I bought a Acer V5-431 (free dos)

I planned to install Windows 8 on my own because I am a student and have a original copy of Windows 8 from MSDN

Upon installing, I was having some trouble, a blue screen (BSOD) will appear preventing me to setup my Win8.

I went back to the shop requiring assistance, they directed me to High-point Seremban to upgrade my BIOS settings so that can install Win8.

I went to High-point Seremban successfully upgraded my BIOS to version 2.09

But when I got back and tried to install Win8, I was still getting BSOD and unable to install Win8 successfully.

Hoping SOMEBODY could kindly assist me to install Win8 in my notebook.

Thanks in advance.

[freeza]

Good day

Make sure that you do a clean format of the HDD (delete partition, recreate partition, formatt and install)

Change the bios settings and make sure that the secure boot is enabled if the bios is 2.x You can also try by changing you sata mode to IDE or AHCI.

Regards,

Freeza

[mwisme]

any idea for retail shop update bios for this v5-431 dos machines to avaliable windows8 , because my shop on hand got many stok

[s3_bordz]

...have a nice day...

try to load first the driver before installing it..you can download it from acer website and save it to a flash drive. I think its because that the built in driver on windows 8 installer is not supported on that device (try achi and wifi driver)