Clean installation of windows 8.1 pro on Thinkpad e550 activation problems.
I have installed a SSD hard drive and need a clean instalations of windows for development using multiple platforms.
My plan was to have a tri-boot on three partitions on a mbr formated drive.
-Windows 8.1 Pro 64bit;
-WIndows 8.1 Pro 32bit, and;
-WIndows 7 Ultimate 64bit using downgrade rights.
The following steps were used:
1. Switching the hard drive and cloning the oem copy to the first partition;
2. Activate windows getting the OEM key from the system (so I had no hardware changes);
3.Use the anytime upgrade in the system properties to upgrade to pro;
4.Clone the windows 7 OS from the old PC and place in on a partion;
5.Download both install media for windows 8.1 Pro from MS Creating Install media;
6. Create media as detailed here;
7. Modify the install to allow entry of key after install as shown here because pro license and oem keys where not acepted during install;
8.Went to BIOS. Turned on Legacy and disable secure boot;
9.Install Windows 8.1 both versions, and;
10. Repair boot to load all three OS.
Good, Now I have all three OS installed all working. However, The pro product key will not activate the windows 8.1 pro and the oem key won't be acepted saying it is the wrong version of windows.
So called MS activation line and they say i need to contact the OEM for activation and downgrade keys for 7 even though i paid for the upgrade through the MS store and the product was already activated once on the system.
Questions:
1. How can i activate the Windows 8.1 pro via Lenovo?
2. How can I activate the Windows 7 copy under downgrade rights with Windows 8.1 pro?
3. Am i missing something with the UEFI/BIOS? (Note:I need to use mbr not GPT format on the drive.)
I have switch the UEFI mode/duel modes during install without success.
EvanTPE550 wrote:
"Is a Win 7 32 virtual client an option?"
What VC are you using?
I use VMWare Player (free) and use it to create virtual clients as needed. Typically the virtual clients are "clean installs" from ISOs. VMWare has it so well mechanized that there's not much to it.
It's pretty quick and easy to install Player and give it a try. Another advantage to that approach is that there's only a single OS at the top level and backups can capture the whole mess w/out having to deal with 2 or 3 different OSs and their partitions.
Z.
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Reinstalling Windows 8.1 pro on Thinkpad 8, activation error
Due to some issues with my tablet I had to reinstall it. The installation itself goes perfect. But for some reason my windows won't activate. I get the error that the server has blocked the key. As far as I know the tablet did not come with a licence key on paper but has one that is build-in. I used the official lenovo recovery. My exact type number for the tablet is; 20BN-002QGE. Hope some one can help me with this
EvanTPE550 wrote:
"Is a Win 7 32 virtual client an option?"
What VC are you using?
I use VMWare Player (free) and use it to create virtual clients as needed. Typically the virtual clients are "clean installs" from ISOs. VMWare has it so well mechanized that there's not much to it.
It's pretty quick and easy to install Player and give it a try. Another advantage to that approach is that there's only a single OS at the top level and backups can capture the whole mess w/out having to deal with 2 or 3 different OSs and their partitions.
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I have done clean installation of Windows 8.1 on my HP Pavilion G4.
Then I realize that I cannot put my computer on sleep mode and cannot adjust screen brightness.
I understand that those problems caused by the graphic card driver.
My computer is running on AMD Radeon HD 6400 series.
Thus, I manually search on internet and found a latest graphic card update on microsoft site that is claimed compatible on windows 8.1 (link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/dn344644.aspx).
I've upgraded it into the latest one. I've check on Device Manager, the driver is running well.
But my problem did not solved!
Please give me the solution!Hi,
How about go to Device Manager, then uninstall Graphic driver and restart your computer, system will install its build in graphic drver. You can have a try.
In addition, access to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Brightness and set its value to 100 for test.
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Scenario
If you performed a clean installation of the new Windows 10 Technical Preview Build 9926, you would find Windows Update is only available in
Settings and is hidden in Control Panel by default. However, Windows Update is still available in Control Panel if it is an upgrade version of Windows 10 Technical Preview Build 9926.
Solution
After the comparison of the two different version, the differences is the following registry:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsUpdate\UX\IsConvergedUpdateStackEnabled
In clean installation version:
In upgrade version:
The method to make Windows Update show in Control Panel in the clean installation of Windows 10 Technical Preview Build 9926:
Edit the REG_DWORD value of IsConvergedUpdateStackEnabled from 1 to 0.
Applies to
Clean installation of Windows 10 Technical Preview Build 9926
Please click to vote if the post helps you. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.We’ve seen a few forum posts talking about changing registry keys to alter the update experience we shipped in Technical Preview build 9926. There are a couple of reasons that we don’t recommend doing things like that.
First, the default experience is what we’ve tested across not just the Windows 10 team, but across all of Microsoft before we released it to you. That doesn’t mean that you won’t still find bugs, but it’s definitely the code that’s been most thoroughly
tested. Changing things back to older versions is risky because the combination of those old settings with the rest of Windows 10 is not something that’s been validated or supported, so we can’t predict the side effects. It’s possible that changing registry
settings related to update could cause a machine to no longer be able to get new updates or Technical Preview builds.
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capabilities.
We want to hear your feedback! We’re sharing Technical Preview releases early so we can understand exactly how customers are using our software and make sure we are designing our experiences to address those scenarios. The more
specific the feedback, the more helpful it is for us – saying “I hate the new Windows Update UI” isn’t very useful, but when we see “I need to be able to tell Windows Update to grab updates from WU itself and not from my internal corporate server, so the new
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Satellite L500-128 - Clean installation of Windows 7 64bit
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I have windows vista in my laptop and I want to make a clean installation with windows 7 64 bit. I have seen that drivers are ok in the site. So here are my questions
a) should i delete the hidden recovery partition or not? (eisa config if i remember correct)
b) I have taken 4 dvds with toshiba recovery disc creator. If I erase every partition in the laptop how can I restore my DVDs? With a programme in Windows or just setting bios to boot from dvds and then the procedure is automatic? Is the first dvd bootable?
thanks in advance and sorry for my englishHi buddy,
> so the disks i took backup what is it?
I assume you mean the Toshbia recovery disk. Right?
If yes this disk contains an image of factory settings. That means if you use this disk and install it, you have the same settings as you purchased it. So its called recovery disk / factory settings.
The recovery disk will always work. You can create 10 partition and/or install Linux. The recovery disk will always work and restore factory settings. With this disk you are on the safely side. :)
Furthermore the recovery disk doesnt contain programs that you have installed yourself. You can install what you want but the content on recovery disk is always the same.
> so where is the partition that the toshiba programme made backup???
To be honest this question isnt clear and detailed.
Generally the installed programs from Toshiba dont create a backup autmatically.
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And Windows recovery environment has nothing to do with Toshiba. You will find this feature on all Vista and Windows 7 computers. But both versions are completely different.
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No Sound after clean installation of windows 7 from Vista
I had a problem with vista on my Hp dv6809wm laptop. My sound driver kept deleting itself and when I would do a system recovery it suddely worked again, but only for a short while. Eventually it stopped working entirely. Then my next step was an HP driver recovery, which also worked a couple times but then stopped. After a couple weeks I decided to purchase Windows 7 through my school and do a "clean" installation to wipe out everything and start fresh. Well when I finally got done, my sound still doesnt work, and im still getting the red x over the sound icon, I have no sound driver. HP support has no sound drivers for my computer for windows 7 or HP, only 3 for vista, I have tried them all and I get different error messages each time, usually saying driver not found (isnt that the point of downloading it?) or it will say cannot find media something. I have no idea what to do. Please help
There is posibilily for hardware problem, broken sound chip in particular.
Backup all of your data and try HP system recovery, choose factory installed setting.
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My hard drive recently crashed in my touchsmart 300. I have purchased a new one but when I insert the installation cd it shortly freezes on starting windows screen right after it installs the windows files for the first time. I have recently read threads about this and saw the safe mode option and disabling the video driver but I can not get to that screen. After I hit any key to boot from dvd i tap F8 and it starts loading windows files, then when it is done it gives me the option to run in safe mode then installs files and freezes again. Can somebody please help me!!!! I am going on over a week straight trying to fix this. Thanks
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I was hoping if I can create a OS X version in pendrive from his laptop and use that to install and thuss also update OS on my Mountain Lion.
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Clean Installation of Windows Server 2012 R2 cannot access internet
I just installed a clean Windows Server 2012 R2 Data Center and all drivers installed with no issue. I used Ethernet connection to access internet via IE (let say google.com) but failed. Clicked "Fix connection problem" and returned "website
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SeanC:\Users\Administrator>ipconfig/all
Windows IP Configuration
Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : WIN-4O28FIG5HD5
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
Ethernet adapter Ethernet:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 30-85-A9-94-5B-62
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.13(Preferred)
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Friday, June 6, 2014 11:46:30 PM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Saturday, June 7, 2014 11:46:30 PM
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled
C:\Users\Administrator>nslookup
Default Server: router.asus.com
Address: 192.168.1.1
> google.com
Server: router.asus.com
Address: 192.168.1.1
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Addresses: 2404:6800:4001:801::1008
123.136.105.20
123.136.105.35
123.136.105.46
123.136.105.59
123.136.105.49
123.136.105.27
123.136.105.57
123.136.105.37
123.136.105.24
123.136.105.31
123.136.105.53
123.136.105.38
123.136.105.48
123.136.105.26
123.136.105.16
123.136.105.42
LAN settings in IE is set to Automatically detect settings, no proxy is selected.
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Windows 8.1 Pro Final (6.3.9600)
Have a clean installation of Windows 8.1 Pro final (volume) since released date. Meanwhile until now it still cannot activated via KMS server perhaps not injected yet, online activation also not work. Current license status is "notification". Is
this will still available and if have expiry, until when? Any article mention this?
As noticed that preview version will expired by 15th Jan 2014
manggar77hi don,
thanks. but what i wan't to know is before
8.1 pro activated, how long it can be used?
manggar77
if it is a VL channel product, you are required by the terms of the license to activate it.
For VL channel products, there are some functional limitations and informational warnings and reminders applied if the product is not activated, but there is no other impact.
Evaluation channel product will periodically shut down. VL channel product will not shut down.
Regardless of the channel (OEM, Retail, VL, Eval) the license terms require that you activate.
MSDN and TechNet, which are for evaluation and/or development, generally the advice is not to activate if you will commence and conclude your evaluation/development in a short period.
This aspect is not documented in any license terms that I've ever found.
(edit: I found it documented here, as up to 120 days)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd981009.aspx
(Note that this is written for Win7/WS2008R2, and Win8/WS2012 may be different)
(there is also a description of the behaviour if not activated, and grace period expires)
(Also note that this is a white paper, not a license agreement)
So, if you are asking "what am I permitted to do?", the answer is, to comply with the license terms, you are required to activate.
If you are asking "what is the technical or user experience if I do not activate?", this depends upon the channel of the media you used.
Does this help? Or have I misunderstood your question?
Don
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Lenovo IdeaCentre A720 - Clean Installation Windows 8.1 Pro x64 and Office 2013 x64
GUIDE: Clean Installation Windows 8.1 Pro x64 and Office 2013 x64
Note: for a good performance is recommended to use a SSD for Windows with a minimal of 128GB and use the HDD for Data
Driver up to date - Sep 2014
First you need to download and have ready the following softwares:
Classic Shell V4.1: To get back the Start Button like Windows 7
http://www.fosshub.com/Classic-Shell.html/ClassicShellSetup_4_1_0.exe
Broadcom BT for Windows 7 (64-bit) - to enable dongle, Windows 7 Live DVD and USB Drive.
http://download.lenovo.com/consumer/desktop/h1100174.exe
Realtek Cardreader Driver Windows 8.1 (64-bit) V6.2.9200.29070. To be able to use the card reader
http://download.lenovo.com/consumer/desktop/h1101061.exe
NV VGA Driver for Windows 8.1 (64-bit) V340.52. Latest video driver for NVIDIA video cards
http://www.nvidia.com/content/DriverDownload-March2009/confirmation.php?url=/Windows/340.52/340.52-n...
Lenovo Silver Silk Keyboard Driver for Windows 8.1 (64-bit) V1.05. To be able to see when Caps Lock or Number Lock is press
http://download.lenovo.com/consumer/desktop/h1100842.exe
Yuan MC907 TV Tuner Driver for Microsoft Windows 7 (64-bit) V6.14.10.416. To be able to use the Yuan TV card
http://download.lenovo.com/consumer/mobiles/tvt129w8164.exe
OSD APP for Windows 8.1 (64-bit) V1.1.06. To be able to use UP or Down Volume for Touch keys in the screen.
http://download.lenovo.com/consumer/desktop/h1100547.exe
Windows 8.1 x64 Installation DVD and Office 2013 x64
Follow this procedure for the installation:
Install Windows 8.1 Pro x64 using the general or personal key
Just to avoid install an old Video Driver from windows update, disable the Wi-Fi or Interned connection
Install Office 2013 x64
Install the Video Driver “340.52-notebook-win8-win7-64bit-international-whql.exe” just let the setup to uncompress the files in “C:\NVIDIA” folder, do not continue to avoid the installation of other software that you may never use. Go to “Device Manager” and Right click properties in the display adapter, press “Driver” - “Update Driver” select browse my computer and give the path “C:\NVIDIA” press next and close after installation finish
Enable Wi-Fi and open Control Panel – Programs – Turn Windows features on or off and select “.NET Framework 3.5” hit OK, after the installation finish, reboot PC
Install “ClassicShellSetup_4_1_0.exe” follow instruction and configure the way you may like
Run file “h1101061.exe”, unselect “Install Realtek Card Reader Driver” and press finish. Path for driver is "C:\EXEBuild\Realtek Card Reader Driver”. Go to “Device Manager” and Right click properties in the unknown devices, press “Driver” - “Update Driver” select browse my computer and give the path “C:\EXEBuild\Realtek Card Reader Driver” press next and close after installation finish
Install “h1100842.exe” backup driver location is “C:\EXEBuild\Lenovo Silver Silk Keyboard Driver” after installation is done, go to “C:\Program Files (x86)\Lenovo\Lenovo Silver Silk Wireless Keyboard” and Right Click in the file ‘”skd8861.exe” properties – compatibility – change setting for all users and select run compatibility mode for “Windows 7” press OK and OK
Run “tvt129w8164.exe” unselect “Install TV Tuner” and press finish. Path for driver is “C:\drivers\TV Tuner (Geniatech, Yuan, AverMedia)”. Go to “Device Manager” and Right click properties in the unknown devices, press “Driver” - “Update Driver” select browse my computer and give the path “C:\drivers\TV Tuner (Geniatech, Yuan, AverMedia)” press next and close after installation finish
Run “h1100547.exe” unselect “Install A7 OSD APP now” and press finish. Path for driver is “D:\EXEBuild\A7 OSD APP”. Run the file “setup.exe” do not reboot the PC and ensure the folder been created during the installation “C:\Program Files (x86)\Lenovo\Lenovo BrgVolOSD” with this two files “BrgVolOSD.exe” and “CD_DLL.dll”, if this fail go to next step, if not, avoid next step. Normally a successful installation of this file depend of “.NET framework 3.5”
Go to control panel and uninstall “Lenovo OSD”, run the previous “setup.exe” and during the process of the installation, be ready to make a copy for the temporal file name “setup.msi” created in “C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Local\Temp”, copy file “setup.msi” in “C:\” and run CMD in administrator mode and go to “C:\” using “CD \ + ENTER”, now use the following command “C:\msiexec.exe /a c:\setup.msi + Enter” the folder “C:\Program Files (x86)\Lenovo\Lenovo BrgVolOSD” with this two files “BrgVolOSD.exe” and “CD_DLL.dll” will be created
Create a shortcut “BrgVolOSD” and copy this in the startup folder “C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp”
Update Bluetooth driver using windows update if Windows detect the dongle, if not go to next step
If Bluetooth is not detected, mean that the actual hardware somehow is disabled. In order to enable, boot the PC with a Windows 7 live DVD with the USB drive installed in the PC. After PC been running with Windows 7 live, Install the file “h1100174.exe” previously copy in the USB drive. Use the USB drive also as installation path for the Bluetooth software, when the installation is done, look in the folder “X:\Program Files\Lenovo\Bluetooth Software” and run the file name “BTTray.exe”, press right click in the Red Bluetooth icon on the taskbar to enabled the Bluetooth dongle. Reboot PC in Windows 8.1 without any DVD media inside, this time Windows 8.1 will be able to recognize the Bluetooth and install the respective drivers.
Another way, install the latest release from Broadcom BTW_12.0.0.9820 from the following link:
BTW_12.0.0.9820.zip
directly in Windows 8.1. Remember if the software is uninstall the Bluetooth will be disabled and
Windows will not be able to see the device in the “Device Manager”
Last step, use your own Windows 8.1 Pro Key and Office 2013 key to register and activated your legal copy of the Microsoft software’s.
Final, enjoy.
This guide was creates for me to help peoples like me in this community.bump
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Clean Windows 8.1 Pro install over Windows 8.1 SL
Hi,
I have a Lenovo H520g desktop, which came with Windows 8 Single Language installed. The machine is currently updated to Windows 8.1 Single Language.
As I am a software developer, I need to use Windows 8.1 Pro, because the SL version doesn't have Hyper-V, which is necessary to run the Windows Phone SDK emulator.
For the reason explained above, I would like hear the advice of an official Microsoft representative on the matter discussed on this topic.
I do know I can update from Windows 8.1 to Windows 8.1 Pro by using the "Add features to Windows 8.1" item on the Windows 8.1 Control Panel and buying the Windows 8,.1 Pro Pack. Nevertheless, I prefer buying the full retail version of Windows 8.1
Pro on a DVD from a local Microsoft reseller. I need a quick way to restore my machine in the case of a HDD failure and having the full retail DVD is definitely the best way to do that. If I upgrade by buying the Windows 8.1 Pro Pack, should my HDD ever failure,
I'll have to do the Lenovo restore procedure (which would restore the computer to Windows 8 SL), then upgrade to Windows 8.1 and only after that I could apply the Windows 8.1 Pro Pack.
My question is: will I be able to do a fresh install of Windows 8.1 Pro on my computer? Of course I'm aware I'll have to delete the partition Windows 8.1 is currently installed on. No problem with that.
But what about the license key? I've read that computers that come with Windows 8 pre-installed have the Windows license key embedded on the BIOS. Will I be able to start the standard Windows 8.1 Pro installation from the DVD and use the license key that comes
with the DVD?
It's very important for me being absolutely sure I'll be able to do a clean install of Windows 8.1 Pro on my Lenovo desktop. The Windows 8.1 Pro full retail DVD is rather expensive here in Brazil (about US$ 320).
Cheers,Hi PauloBR1,
If you upgrade to Windows 8.1 Pro by Windows 8.1 Pro Pack,you can use
System Image Backup feature to backup your system.Also,you can use this feature to restore your system quickly.
In addition,britishdhez is right.
We can use the Retail license key to active the Windows 8.1 Pro.
Regards,
Kelvin Xu
TechNet Community Support -
Clean (Custom) Installation of Windows 8.1
Clean (Custom) Installation of Windows 8.1
I have HP Envy laptop which has Windows 8.1 pre-installed.
Now I'm trying to clean install OS. But how to know the exact Windows 8.1 version.
I'm trying to boot from pendrive & Its asking what version to install
Windows 8.1 (Core) / OEM / KMS/OEM-Activated
Windows 8.1 (Core) N / OEM / KMS/OEM-Activated
Windows 8.1 (Core) Single Language / OEM / KMS/OEM-Activated
Windows 8.1 Core Connected (with Bing) / OEM / KMS/OEM-Activated
Windows 8.1 Pro / OEM / KMS/OEM-Activated
Windows 8.1 Pro N / OEM / KMS/OEM-Activated
Windows 8.1 Pro VL / OEM / KMS/OEM-Activated
Windows 8.1 Pro N VL / OEM / KMS/OEM-Activated
Windows 8.1 Pro WMC / OEM / KMS/OEM-Activated
Windows 8.1 Enterprise / OEM / KMS/OEM-Activated
Windows 8.1 Enterprise N / OEM / KMS/OEM-Activated
Windows Embedded 8.1 Industry Pro / OEM / KMS/OEM-Activated
Windows Embedded 8.1 Industry Enterprise / OEM / KMS/OEM-Activated
** In system properties it is showing Windows 8.1
No sub version is shownDownload and Belarc Advisor, it will give you all sorts of information about your computer including the OS
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html
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No headphone sound after Windows 7 clean installation
Hello.
I recently performed a clean installation of Windows 7 Home Premium. Before that on preinstalled Windows the problem described below did not show up, sound worked just great.
Now I don't have sound when inserting my headphones in jack (built-in speakers work fine however). Windows reports that sound works, no problems found, but I hear nothing. On the same computer I have also Linux installed and the same headphones work well there in the same jack.
When I put my headphones in, Realtek Manager makes notification that the device is plugged in.
My model is Qosmio X775-3DV78. What I have tried so far:
1) Reinstalling, updating, removing, trying different versions of Realtek HD Audio driver.
2) Changing every possible setting in Realtek HD Audio Manager.
3) Trying different headphones - same result: nothing.
4) Changing settings in Playback Devices.
Since it worked before reinstalling Windows and since it works on Linux on the same computer, there is definitely something wrong with my drivers. Could you please provide information as to what drivers exactly I should have installed to make sound work correctly? Maybe some motherboard driver is missing (though I installed everything important I could find on Toshiba site).
Attached are some important screenshots. Please note that there are 2 unknown devices in my Device Manager and also USB Controller driver has problems, though I do not think it has any connection with the problem.
* On both Playback Devices forms Disabled Devices and Disconnected Devices are shown.
Thanks!
UPDATE: One of "Unknown devices" proved to be Toshiba HDD Shock Sensor driver and another one is ACPI\TOS6205.
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ToshibaSupport3.png 21 KBI have just done the same upgrade to Windows7 and I have no sound from the headphone jack. Also when I plug into it, I don't get the old Realtek Audio evaluation screen for audio setup.
However I do not use headphones, as I have been using a RCA jack to plug from the headphones output jack to
a portilble shortwave radio that I have utilized the 6 inch woofer for the past three years since buying the laptop new, for better output and base sound from the radio speaker while simultaneously running the stereo built-in speakers on the laptop.
Can someone tell me that I should just update the laptop audio card by re-installing the original Realtek Audio Driver? Is that easily accessible here in the official Toshiba site? Also if possible, please inform me of other driver updates that would most likely need re-installation processes after this Windows 7 update.
Thank you for any info,
Mark Seibold, Portland Oregon *If poossible please reply to my direct email >
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TCS4 on Windows 8.1 Pro 64 bit
I did a clean install of Windows 8.1 Pro 64 bit on my workstation. Then I did a clean install of Adobe TCS4. When I want to enter my Serial Number I receive the following message:
Serial Number you povided is valid, but a qualifying product could not be found on this computer.
To use this serial number, you must own one of these qualifying products. Please choose the one you own and enter its serial number.
When I select Adobe FrameMaker 11 from the dropdown and enter the TCS4 Serial Number I receive the following message:
This serial number is not for a qualifying product. Please try another.
Any suggestions?What did Adobe support say? Installation help/support is free.
Art Campbell
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