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Did the 8.1 upgrade last night and a couple of 'issues' that have popped up are:
- My network drive now appears in offline mode, I guess is how it is called. I can transfer files to it, browse it, etc... But trying to copy from it, play music, movies, from it only tells me that the file is 'only available when you are connected to the internet.' Don't know if some network type setting got changed in the upgrade. Guess I can just disconnect the drive and reconnect to see if it clears it up.
- This forum in particular hates Firefox (Waterfox actually) now. It is probably due to the graphic driver (my only guess), but for whatever reason this forum gives me black bars across the entire screen randomly dispersed throughout posts. Sometimes the whole page just goes black. I can ctrl+a to select everything, unselect and about 80% will return, then repeat to get another 10 - 15%. Will see if it clears up after upgrading to the latest nvidia beta driver. Does not happen in Chrome or in IE though.
- Also graphic driver related, my GTX 670s were stuck at 80% fan speed and like heavy load for no reason. After a couple of reboots, enabling / disabling SLI, and playing with Precision X to fake an Overclock and then return to default it cleared up.
Also a couple of random crashes like Desidero said. Honestly it is feels like just more of the driver crap that always goes along with new releases, plus it is a beta release for 8.1, so I can't really fault it. The network thing is what ticks me off the most, but should be trivial enough to fix. It has happened 3 - 4 times now including on Windows 8.0. Like it just forgets that I have a Wireless (ugh, yeah I hate wireless) Network or the network drive. I'm no networking guru, but the whole time on Win 7 this issue never once came up.
*edit: Oh, another thing (and off topic not Win 7 / 8 related); am I the only person that thinks audio arbitration between headphones and speakers sucks? I can't just plug in USB headphones and all audio is automatically directed to it. Have to go in to Sound, set as default device (or sometimes disable the speakers) to make the headphones work. Then when I unplug them audio doesn't revert back to speakers. Guess the question is, is there a better method / program for managing multiple audio outs?
- My network drive now appears in offline mode, I guess is how it is called. I can transfer files to it, browse it, etc... But trying to copy from it, play music, movies, from it only tells me that the file is 'only available when you are connected to the internet.' Don't know if some network type setting got changed in the upgrade. Guess I can just disconnect the drive and reconnect to see if it clears it up.
- This forum in particular hates Firefox (Waterfox actually) now. It is probably due to the graphic driver (my only guess), but for whatever reason this forum gives me black bars across the entire screen randomly dispersed throughout posts. Sometimes the whole page just goes black. I can ctrl+a to select everything, unselect and about 80% will return, then repeat to get another 10 - 15%. Will see if it clears up after upgrading to the latest nvidia beta driver. Does not happen in Chrome or in IE though.
- Also graphic driver related, my GTX 670s were stuck at 80% fan speed and like heavy load for no reason. After a couple of reboots, enabling / disabling SLI, and playing with Precision X to fake an Overclock and then return to default it cleared up.
Also a couple of random crashes like Desidero said. Honestly it is feels like just more of the driver crap that always goes along with new releases, plus it is a beta release for 8.1, so I can't really fault it. The network thing is what ticks me off the most, but should be trivial enough to fix. It has happened 3 - 4 times now including on Windows 8.0. Like it just forgets that I have a Wireless (ugh, yeah I hate wireless) Network or the network drive. I'm no networking guru, but the whole time on Win 7 this issue never once came up.
*edit: Oh, another thing (and off topic not Win 7 / 8 related); am I the only person that thinks audio arbitration between headphones and speakers sucks? I can't just plug in USB headphones and all audio is automatically directed to it. Have to go in to Sound, set as default device (or sometimes disable the speakers) to make the headphones work. Then when I unplug them audio doesn't revert back to speakers. Guess the question is, is there a better method / program for managing multiple audio outs?
