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Hey! I haven’t posted here since I had an issue about 8 months ago, but I could really use some help.
OS: Windows 8.1 GPU: r9 280x
A bit of background: my pc was running slow, so I decided to update my AMD drivers. After this, my screen was smaller than my monitor – I tried to easily fix this by accessing catalyst control centre but I could not get into it. After asking around I decided to do a refresh of windows – after doing so it worked fine.
2 days later I turned on my pc but it didn’t boot correctly; when doing so, it’d load past the bios menu screen before going to a blue screen (blue screen of death? The Windows 8 version is much less scary looking haha). Then, it’d attempt an automatic repair (with the spinning disc thing to indicate its in progress) before going to an endless black screen. The blue screen is too fast to read what it says, I have tried booting from my windows disc (which didn’t work, however It didn’t work when trying to reset my pc in the first place and I used a memory stick instead) and from a USB – to no avail (the exact same thing happened, except the windows logo came up and then going back to black).
I'm not really sure what to do; any tips on trying to boot from a usb? I used rufus and attempted a win8.1 boot. I want to get into it and do another refresh of windows/system restore ( I have no important files on there). Sorry for the rambling, and thank you for reading! Could really use some tips here, or any other suggestions for fixing this that i'm not attempting now. thanks!
OS: Windows 8.1 GPU: r9 280x
A bit of background: my pc was running slow, so I decided to update my AMD drivers. After this, my screen was smaller than my monitor – I tried to easily fix this by accessing catalyst control centre but I could not get into it. After asking around I decided to do a refresh of windows – after doing so it worked fine.
2 days later I turned on my pc but it didn’t boot correctly; when doing so, it’d load past the bios menu screen before going to a blue screen (blue screen of death? The Windows 8 version is much less scary looking haha). Then, it’d attempt an automatic repair (with the spinning disc thing to indicate its in progress) before going to an endless black screen. The blue screen is too fast to read what it says, I have tried booting from my windows disc (which didn’t work, however It didn’t work when trying to reset my pc in the first place and I used a memory stick instead) and from a USB – to no avail (the exact same thing happened, except the windows logo came up and then going back to black).
I'm not really sure what to do; any tips on trying to boot from a usb? I used rufus and attempted a win8.1 boot. I want to get into it and do another refresh of windows/system restore ( I have no important files on there). Sorry for the rambling, and thank you for reading! Could really use some tips here, or any other suggestions for fixing this that i'm not attempting now. thanks!
. I could try, although I really don't think its a gpu related problem
