EMS & Windows 8? (Page 1 of 2)

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/3178- … -dual-boot

I was gonna ask about this. Guess I'll have to deal with it.

I use Bleep Bloop carts to which the transferrer program runs on XP. I also use a Macbook Pro and the Apple version of the transferrer didn't work for some reason so I just ran an XP virtual machine and works like a charm.

Is a pain... but possible.
You have to:
1) on the right panel, go to "Change PC settings"
2) go to General, and in the Right botton under Advanced startup -> Restart Now
3) choose on Options -> Troubleshoot
4) Advanced Options
5) Startup Options
6) Restart
...  yes computer will restart
7) press 7 for "Disable driver signature enforcement"

Last edited by Zuberi (Sep 6, 2013 4:05 pm)

Doesn't DSEO work with Windows 8? I guess not since it's not listed in the compatible OSs. Otherwise, can't you press F8 when booting, like you can with Windows 7?
If Windows 8 is anything like Windows 7, you could try opening an administrator command prompt and doing the following command. This should make the Windows boot manager show up for 1 second on each boot, which should allow you to press F8, again, unless Windows 8 is different in this regard.

bcdedit /set {bootmgr} timeout 1

Hmm, looking further, I found this link: http://forums.mydigitallife.info/thread … -Windows-8

Disabling driver signature enforcement *should* still work on Windows 8, just not through DSEO. Use thi to do it manually instead "bcdedit -set TESTSIGNING ON"
However, 1) you need to do it from an administrator command prompt 2) you still need to sign the driver manually.

Otherwise, try my other bcdedit line and see if that makes the boot menu show up at boot time. (You can even put a value of 10 just for testing since yo can change it later.) This should definitely allow you to press F8 on boot, which should simplify the process at least a little. Again, you need to do this from an administrator/elevated command prompt window.
Look here to see how to open an elevated command prompt: http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows-8 … dows-8.htm

One of these days I need to install Windows 8 so I can try these things directly and don't have to rely on other people's sources, though.

Edit: Note that disabling signature checks, and enabling test mode are two different things. Disabling signature checks completely is considered dangerous because any application can now load kernel drivers, so it needs to be done at boot time every time you boot. All the timeout line does (hopefully) is allow you to get into the boot menu without doing the ritual with the troubleshooting menu.

Test mode doesn't eliminate the signature checks, but allows users to sign drivers themselves. This can be permanently enabled, but shows a warning text in the lower right corner of the desktop and also requires the extra step of manually signing the driver in order for it to work.

Last edited by nitro2k01 (Sep 7, 2013 8:52 am)

Could anyone please confirm whether any of what I said does anything on Windows 8?