(10-19-2013, 04:06 AM)me50 Wrote:

(10-19-2013, 03:59 AM)DOOM_NX Wrote: Another reason why Win8 blows. Sorry for the offtopic, but I'm staying with Win7 until a better OS comes out.

I wanted to stay with Win7 but had no choice when my laptop crashed. I have gotten used to Win8 now but I don't like that I have to pay for Office that always came with Windows in the past. So, I don't have office now. Word and Excel is mostly what I used so when I have time, I will look into others to see what will work with my current docs.

As far as the S8 goes, I think I read that it has to use a specific card reader. Hoping someone with that machine or that had that machine will be able to help you with this. Sorry you are having so much trouble

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Oh, and do not accept possession of an S8. They are outdated. They use a proprietary data card (you can only use ResMed's card) and proprietary card reader (you can only use their reader). Both are difficult to find.

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(10-19-2013, 11:39 AM)snuffles Wrote: Why not just swap out the HDD instead of new PC and reload from backup... cheaper.??

(10-19-2013, 04:06 AM)me50 Wrote:

(10-19-2013, 03:59 AM)DOOM_NX Wrote: Another reason why Win8 blows. Sorry for the offtopic, but I'm staying with Win7 until a better OS comes out.

I wanted to stay with Win7 but had no choice when my laptop crashed. I have gotten used to Win8 now but I don't like that I have to pay for Office that always came with Windows in the past. So, I don't have office now. Word and Excel is mostly what I used so when I have time, I will look into others to see what will work with my current docs.

As far as the S8 goes, I think I read that it has to use a specific card reader. Hoping someone with that machine or that had that machine will be able to help you with this. Sorry you are having so much trouble

This is a post from PaulaO2


Oh, and do not accept possession of an S8. They are outdated. They use a proprietary data card (you can only use ResMed's card) and proprietary card reader (you can only use their reader). Both are difficult to find.

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(10-20-2013, 10:23 AM)snuffles Wrote: Sleepyhead runs on the Mac, Windows and Linux, but was only written for the SD card. Damn.! ResScan was only written for Windows.

Yes the S8 uses the old ACR38 reader but Windows IS the problem here. It replaces the drivers with its own, which don't work. This once worked. I used to run 4.2 and it worked fine but Windows 8 (and 7) update automatically and in doing so has replaced the drivers with its own that don't work, and I have not found a way to stop it. Turing off Auto Updates doesn't do the trick because simply plugging the ACR38 in caused Windows to search for new drivers and replace the ones I loaded from ACS which would work if Windows would leave them alone.

FYI.. I'm familiar with both Windows and Mac as I did testing for Microsoft and now Apple... gratefully I don't have to pay for any OS but I feel sorry for anyone who does from Microsoft.

Microsoft continues to screw up... wait 'til folks find the next bit of news they have for users: Users of Windows 8 where encouraged to load Windows 8.1 Preview and many did. The thing Microsoft didn't tell anyone was that when the official release of 8.1 came out, (this week) users had no way of backing out of 8.1 Preview, and No, the restore back to plain 8 in most cases (if anyone kept one) didn't work. So to install the new 8.1 over the 8.1 Preview you have to reinstall all your apps, and thus the problems begin.

So lets recap: (1) Microsoft brought out Vista... Fail. (2) Brought out Win8 and only 3% of Windows users use it. (3) Encouraged 8.1 Preview but can't properly overwrite it with 8.1 without reinstalling all the apps.

All this for a price of $200 to $300 per release. (8.1 is free) This is the company that everyone is in love with and can't wait to use their next wonderful product. (Mac OSX is $20 by the way)

Barnum was most certainly correct.

(10-20-2013, 09:36 PM)snuffles Wrote: That's sleepyhead.. SD cards only.

(10-19-2013, 11:34 AM)snuffles Wrote: I'll also muddle on by dumping Windows. The only reason I ever kept it was to run ResScan. Thanks God I've always had Macs.

(10-18-2013, 11:35 PM)snuffles Wrote: Well an update of what I've done for now and I'll bet there isn't a sole who can help me....

I have gone to the web site of the manufacturer for the 38 reader and procured the newest driver pack for Windows 8 and installed it.

I then installed the 4.3 ResScan, which now won't install at all in Windows 8.1.

So now: no ResScan, no drivers and there isn't enough words in the English language to describe my hatred for Windows.

I wish the guy who wrote Sleepyhead would mod it to read the data cards for the S8 machine.

So now I'm screwed.... Microsoft won't even answer a Support call they are so busy with 8.1 complaints after the release today.

(10-20-2013, 10:23 AM)snuffles Wrote: So lets recap: (1) Microsoft brought out Vista... Fail. (2) Brought out Win8 and only 3% of Windows users use it. (3) Encouraged 8.1 Preview but can't properly overwrite it with 8.1 without reinstalling all the apps.

All this for a price of $200 to $300 per release. (8.1 is free) This is the company that everyone is in love with and can't wait to use their next wonderful product. (Mac OSX is $20 by the way)