Post by maxtro210 on Apr 4, 2014 7:56:08 GMT
I've just spent the last 4 and a half hours trying to figure out how to use windows 8.1. Quick catch up, I was tired of playing (attempting to play) ESO on my macbook pro as it only runs smooth on minimum graphics settings and I still get disconnected every 10 minutes for "an unknown error occurred". Anyway, I decided to build myself a custom gaming PC. I got the whole thing assembled and started it up. When I was ordering all the parts I thought about ordering Windows 7 because I'm probably 40% familiar with it (I mainly use mac and the computers at work are still using XP). I saw that the price for windows 7 and windows 8 was the same so I thought what the heck and ordered the newer one. This is proving to be a terrible mistake because they sent me windows 8.1 (not sure what the difference is). Anyway, first problem is I cannot install anything, when I click run on any program it takes me to a blank desktop for about 5 minutes then goes back to my regular desktop without installing anything. The other problem is when I tried to go to my account page and log in to download the client for the new computer, I keep getting a message saying "Error 404 Page not found". I've tried logging into my account on my laptop, my wife's laptop, and her gaming desktop, all work just fine but for some reason my new PC can't find my account page. I've submitted a ticket through elderscrollsonline.com for the account portion but I wanted to make a post here on the forums regarding windows 8 since microsoft customer service seems to be nonexistent. Now I remember why I went to mac, just to bad they're not great for gaming.
If anyone has any helpful tips or advise for installing programs and navigation windows 8, I'd greatly appreciate it. It's very confusing. Little things like clicking on control panel takes you to a blank screen. I'm general pretty good at trouble shooting if I at least have text to work with. Blank screens are new territory. Anyway, thanks in advance for any assistance. I hope to get in the game soon as I can get this working.
If anyone has any helpful tips or advise for installing programs and navigation windows 8, I'd greatly appreciate it. It's very confusing. Little things like clicking on control panel takes you to a blank screen. I'm general pretty good at trouble shooting if I at least have text to work with. Blank screens are new territory. Anyway, thanks in advance for any assistance. I hope to get in the game soon as I can get this working.