Hi Guys,
I have a crazy problem that is driving me insane! I really hope someone can help.
I installed 8.1 on my alienware laptop, everything was totally perfect until a windows update today screwed my computer sideways and upon reboot my lcd panel had a max rez of 1024x768!
Both my intel and Nvidia cards had stopped working and reporting issues in device manager (all were perfect prior to this auto update today).
So, I reinstalled the manufacturer driers that were working perfectly before the update.
Windows then decides that it doesn't like the driver that has been working perfectly fine for ages and I get a black screen. It doesn't recover.
Now I have to button my machine, windows 8 load screen then a black screen with the occasional flicker. I can no longer get a display in windows, I believe the gFX driver to be corrupt or have an issue.
No safe mode for F8 or shift and F8, and I put the win 8 disk in, startup repair can't find an issue and my last restore is ages ago before doing a ton of things I don't want to loose.
I tried disabling hybrid graphics in the bios and no dice, it just won't get a display in windows. So now I am screwed with a stupid black screen of death every time I try to boot up and no way around it.
Can anyone please help with a way of killing the GFX drivers through DOS or something else so this stupid 8.1 install will load up with default drivers??
Cheers!
I have a crazy problem that is driving me insane! I really hope someone can help.
I installed 8.1 on my alienware laptop, everything was totally perfect until a windows update today screwed my computer sideways and upon reboot my lcd panel had a max rez of 1024x768!
Both my intel and Nvidia cards had stopped working and reporting issues in device manager (all were perfect prior to this auto update today).
So, I reinstalled the manufacturer driers that were working perfectly before the update.
Windows then decides that it doesn't like the driver that has been working perfectly fine for ages and I get a black screen. It doesn't recover.
Now I have to button my machine, windows 8 load screen then a black screen with the occasional flicker. I can no longer get a display in windows, I believe the gFX driver to be corrupt or have an issue.
No safe mode for F8 or shift and F8, and I put the win 8 disk in, startup repair can't find an issue and my last restore is ages ago before doing a ton of things I don't want to loose.
I tried disabling hybrid graphics in the bios and no dice, it just won't get a display in windows. So now I am screwed with a stupid black screen of death every time I try to boot up and no way around it.
Can anyone please help with a way of killing the GFX drivers through DOS or something else so this stupid 8.1 install will load up with default drivers??
Cheers!
