Hello,
I am having a problem with my fresh installation of Windows 8.1.
When I am booting, it takes forever and it takes me to a black screen with the white cursor that appears and disappears if I move it or not.
But I can seem to fix it until I completely shut down my computer by executing the following command on a command prompt from a repair USB:
[quote]bootrec /fixmbr[/quote]
It fixes the issue completely until I shut down the computer. Restarting it is fine.
I noticed my USB keyboards wouldn't work anymore while it's booting, like at the moment I should be pressing DEL to make the BIOS show up, and the time occasionally screwing up (like day in time going 1 week forward, and time setting itself to 2PM (sometimes I can see the time for a short delay until the screen dies)).
I think it's interesting to mention that, I updated my BIOS before in an attempt to fix a recent problem about my computer restarting endlessly at times.
It didn't fix it, and rather made bad things happen too (such as the computer completely not responding at all, physical launch buttons not doing anything and screen being blank, the problem was a cooling issue, obviously).
[URL="http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/980DE3U3S3/"][B]Here is my motherboard.[/B][/URL]
I had that problem before, I switched to Windows 7 for a while with an SSD (which died following 3 months) and it worked flawlessly.
I switched back to Windows 8.1 with my new SSD for its better performance, boot times, SSD optimizations and looks, and it's fucking up if I don't run the command stated above.
I don't have any integrated graphics card, and my graphics card is an NVidia GTX 650, which is quite old but has still performed well on videogames.
Any idea? I am thinking about switching my BIOS version back, but as that is a tedious and dangerous task, and I have no real way to get in the BIOS as my USB keyboard won't work, I'd rather not try it right now and look for a better solution.
[B]Thank you![/B]
Did you use ShadowPlay and have let it record the entire desktop? Sadly the one fix I found was to reinstall windows, good thing is that win8.1 makes that without deleting personal files, except for the appdata folder and the programs folder which get deleted but you will get an list of deleted programs on your desktop after the windows installation is done.
At least it was like that in my case.
[editline]8th January 2015[/editline]
[video=youtube;h4oarLNgkjc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4oarLNgkjc[/video]
The thing is that I can't even log in my account.
[url]http://a.pomf.se/hetsic.3gp[/url]
to get into the boot menu I just pressed the reset button while it was loading windows. Do that 2 times or so and you'll be able to fix everything. I wasted an week to figure that out since literally no one else had this problem.
[editline]8th January 2015[/editline]
By the way it's nice to see that someone else has got the same Fostex headphones like I do. It's not often I see that.
It's not Fostex lol, sorry. What I meant by boot menu I mean BIOS. It's impossible to do so since my keyboard won't work until Windows loads.
I don't use ShadowPlay.
I see what you mean now. I assume that you already tried to set the bios back to the default settings using the pins on the motherboard. On my board it automaticly enables the USB mouse and keyboard support once I reset it. If that doesn't help then I hope you still have an keyboard lying around with an PS/2 plug since they seem to work at all times.
I don't have such a keyboard. And I have already done so, reset my motherboard, but Windows 8.1 seems to do bad things about it.
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