I'm running a 5 year old Gigabyte mobo with AMD 780 chipset and AMD 2.5Ghz dual-core CPU (4850e). Also 4GB of RAM and a couple IDE drives. I'm sure the boot drive runs at 7200 rpm. This system was running fine under Windows 7 Pro.
Don't ask me why now but I installed Windows 8 two days ago (I had paid only $15 for the upgrade in last 2012.) The Win8 evaluation program said my system was fine with just a couple rarely used programs that needed updates. Between the initial Win8 install, applying all the updates, then upgrading to 8.1, the process was about 6 hours.
The first thing I noticed was that the motherboard boot screen stayed on for a minute or more compared to 15 seconds under Win7. The entire boot process is several times longer than under Win7 (I started a separate thread on that issue). When I put the system to sleep, if it doesn't get awakened within a hour or so, it shuts down even after I disabled "hybrid hibernation." Quite often it will shut down after the Win8 logo appears but before I get to the logon screen and I have to start it again.
So my questions are: 1) could my hardware have been on the verge of failure which was aggravated by Win8? or 2) could my 2008 BIOS just not like Win8? or 3) is 5 year old hardware really not suitable for Windows 8 (even though Win7 ran fine on this sytem?)
I'd appreciate your thoughts even though I'm about 90% sure that I'm going to roll back to Win 7. I can't live with the system the way it is.
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