Ductape wrote:
Mod, posts recommending Ubuntu as a solution to this problem have been removed.
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I saw them and was not bothered, but I figured the mods were wanting to keep a focus on the techy issue. I think I encouraged linux rederrals w/ my saying I am tired of MS, Dell, and just not having a clue as to what I am doing, even after 40 yrs fooling heavily w/ all kinds of PCs.
In addition to a long boot where the Dell circle is up for maybe 25 sec and then a blue 4-pane window (MS icon) with a rotating circular arrow is on for another 30 sec before asking for the PC password...
Computer will not go to sleep. It seems only to hibernate (or shutdown - I cannot tell). Also, as I mentioned, UEFI cannot be turned on in boot menu and BIOS sees no HD. Also, Dell recovery disk AND the MS 541Mb 'recovery stick' we created from this W8.1 reinstall flashed the message that they were not recognizing stuff and just stop.
CTRL-ALT-DEL will restart (w/ long bootup)
If anyone can tell us exactly what to do to get this thing to either go back to Dell OEM, or a non-bloat Windows OS, I would be grateful.
