I updated to 8.1 yesterday on top of a 8 pro installation, and all was well. Today I was installing 3dmark11, which wouldn't launch for whatever reason, but I got a bsod with dxgmmsl.sys as the culprit. I rebooted and my screen froze up after a few seconds, forcing me to hard reset.
After that, every time I reboot, windows starts to load, but right after the logo splash screen, I just get a black display on both monitors. I did a system restore to no avail, and followed that by going into safe mode and uninstalling the display drivers. I rebooted and it looked to be going well, but at the login screen the drivers auto installed and it froze. Tried to get back into safe mode, but that now gives the black screen as well. Tried reseating gfx cards, tried booting with just one monitor and one card. No joy.
Currently cloning over my backup from before I installed 8.1, but I'm worried I'll face the same issue, since something similar happened when I got my second card (that was solved by reseating though).
Any ideas? I'm really hoping it isn't a hardware issue!
E: NVM, the restore seems to have fixed it. Not sure whether I want to go back to 8.1 now though!
After that, every time I reboot, windows starts to load, but right after the logo splash screen, I just get a black display on both monitors. I did a system restore to no avail, and followed that by going into safe mode and uninstalling the display drivers. I rebooted and it looked to be going well, but at the login screen the drivers auto installed and it froze. Tried to get back into safe mode, but that now gives the black screen as well. Tried reseating gfx cards, tried booting with just one monitor and one card. No joy.
Currently cloning over my backup from before I installed 8.1, but I'm worried I'll face the same issue, since something similar happened when I got my second card (that was solved by reseating though).
Any ideas? I'm really hoping it isn't a hardware issue!
E: NVM, the restore seems to have fixed it. Not sure whether I want to go back to 8.1 now though!
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