Hey All,
Recently finally took the plunged and installed windows 8.1 on my mac (for steam). What i did was isntalled windows, then instalelled the driver updates from 2/11/14 which covered wifi and such. At this point everything went fine.
I went to shut down, and windows started to install an update. After then when i booted up it immediately went to black screen (as if sleeping) it wouldnt wake out of it. Based on some searching it seamed to be a common issue. I was going to try and manually remove the update / display driver but i couldnt get into safe mode for the life of me (shift+F8 no?)
Anywho, since it was a new install, i just redid it. I reinstalled windows 8.1 and then the bootcamp drivers. However now (and it is) i have turned OFF automatic windows updates. Is there goign to be and potential issues with this? Should i keep updates on? (and if so, how do i get around this black screen issue)
it works fine now with updates off, and beign that im just going to be gaming on it, i figure...why not just not let it update. Opinions?
(and for reference, all bootcamp driver updates pushed from apple should be fine right? Its just the windows updates themselves that were causing compatibility issues?)
2013 15" retina if it matters.
Thanks!
(off to play South Park SoT during lunch!)
Recently finally took the plunged and installed windows 8.1 on my mac (for steam). What i did was isntalled windows, then instalelled the driver updates from 2/11/14 which covered wifi and such. At this point everything went fine.
I went to shut down, and windows started to install an update. After then when i booted up it immediately went to black screen (as if sleeping) it wouldnt wake out of it. Based on some searching it seamed to be a common issue. I was going to try and manually remove the update / display driver but i couldnt get into safe mode for the life of me (shift+F8 no?)
Anywho, since it was a new install, i just redid it. I reinstalled windows 8.1 and then the bootcamp drivers. However now (and it is) i have turned OFF automatic windows updates. Is there goign to be and potential issues with this? Should i keep updates on? (and if so, how do i get around this black screen issue)
it works fine now with updates off, and beign that im just going to be gaming on it, i figure...why not just not let it update. Opinions?
(and for reference, all bootcamp driver updates pushed from apple should be fine right? Its just the windows updates themselves that were causing compatibility issues?)
2013 15" retina if it matters.
Thanks!
(off to play South Park SoT during lunch!)