I have an install for Windows 8.1, and I want to replace Windows 7 with it. I have an Acer Aspire M3470-G, which is pre-loaded with a Win7 installer that I have run in the past to do my annual OS reinstalls. I made a boot disc to run the Win8 installation.
So, I put the disc in the tray and shut down. When it restarts, I am given a prompt to "Press any key to boot from CD or DVD". No matter what keys I press, the only thing that happens is that it starts booting Windows 7. I have attempted this over a dozen times this afternoon.
The other problem is that I can't access my BIOS, reason being that the Acer splash screen, which is the first screen I should see, literally comes and goes too fast for my fleshy human synapses to respond to, even with the most furious keypounding. Every source I've searched for help on this suggests altering the boot order in the BIOS, but my window of opportunity to do this can be measured in milliseconds. It is, in fact, so brief that most of the time, I don't even see it. I have found virtually no information on this issue anywhere (everything I've seen on the subject involved problems with GPU installation, and that is not the issue I am dealing with), and I'm not terribly knowledgeable about computers to start with.
Any help I can get on this subject would be very appreciated.
So, I put the disc in the tray and shut down. When it restarts, I am given a prompt to "Press any key to boot from CD or DVD". No matter what keys I press, the only thing that happens is that it starts booting Windows 7. I have attempted this over a dozen times this afternoon.
The other problem is that I can't access my BIOS, reason being that the Acer splash screen, which is the first screen I should see, literally comes and goes too fast for my fleshy human synapses to respond to, even with the most furious keypounding. Every source I've searched for help on this suggests altering the boot order in the BIOS, but my window of opportunity to do this can be measured in milliseconds. It is, in fact, so brief that most of the time, I don't even see it. I have found virtually no information on this issue anywhere (everything I've seen on the subject involved problems with GPU installation, and that is not the issue I am dealing with), and I'm not terribly knowledgeable about computers to start with.
Any help I can get on this subject would be very appreciated.
