Thread: Windows 8 hangs at times when restarting

Hi Baradeck,

just so I can help you further I need a little more information on your set up. Can you post whether your drivers and bios are the latest versions as well as your system set up.
Also can you list how you installed win 8? Upgrade or clean install and either download or Disk/USB drive. Thank you.

Thanks for the reply. Bios & Drivers are all up to date. Downloaded to Disk / copied iso file to USB drive. I did an upgrade over Windows 7. As to System Setup, I'm not quite sure I'm following you on that one.
Everything works smoothly but once in a bit, I'll get it where on a reboot, it will hang. This is not persistent, just once in a while. I'm using a Toshiba L675 with 8 Gigs of RAM on board.

Hi,

thanks for the info'. Users that have performed upgrade installs we are now asking to perform clean or custom installs as upgrades just don't cut it.

System set up just means what hardware your using but you already answered that. Can you list the full name of your lappie so we get the right download.

I have found that the Upgrade Install is VERY dependent upon the underlying original OS. How is it working? How many apps are installed? How do these apps interact? And so many other variables. For the vast majority of installation this Upgrade seems to work reasonably well, but .... I always recommend a Custom (Clean) installation. This takes all this stuff out of the Upgrade Equation.

Yes I know that doing this Custom Installation involves a little more work initially, but for those that do experience problems, how many hours do you waste trying to figure out these strange problems. It seems that when the Upgrade Installation goes bad it really causes strange, hard to diagnose problems.

So I guess I'm with kemical. A Custom Installation is the most pristine installation for Win 8.

Thanks for the replies. The unit I'm using is a Toshiba Satellite L675-00X. Hope this is what you're looking for.

I cannot seem to find the support page for your model.. Hmm.. If you know the link please post otherwise I'll keep looking. Is there anything else to the model name? I find a Satellite L675 no problem but the 00X part is being elusive.

Not sure as to the support page. That there is a Toshiba L675-00X is a given. Are you trying Toshiba Canada - this is where it should be. You mention the right download - can you clarify. Thanks!

My system is doing that right now, whenever I have an external Seagate hard drive enclosure plugged into the USB 3.0 port.

So perhaps you have some device that might be involved. This Seagate device is brand new and does USB 3.0/Thunderbolt/eSATA. Unplugging the device prior to restart will alleviate the problem. There may be some setting I need to change, but have not yet checked. I am not using the software that came with the device.