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I'm sorry but I'm new at this but I'm at a loss at what I'm suppose to do. Just got in the mail 2 ssd's and the HD7870 video card along with a copy of windows 8.1 complete (retail). My boot ssd (one I'm trying to install on) is a 60gb Mushkin and the other is the one I was going to put games on the 240gb Mushkin.
So I hooked the 60gb one up and put in my install disk for the 64bit of windows 8.1. It went through the install fine, then it said it needed to restart to complete and when it restarted it gave me the black screen of death. It sat there for over 30 minutes then the screen turned to a yellowish orange.
So I formatted the ssd, reinstalled fresh again. Same thing.
I then tried the 240gb thinking maybe I had a bad ssd. Same thing.
Then I tried an old 500gb Seagate that I knew worked but I formatted it and installed. Same thing.
So back to the 60gb I went, formatted, reinstalled 8.1 then it did the black screen again. So I tried booting over a couple times till it gave me the option to start in safe mode with networking. It started in a black screen with the blue windows logo... and stayed there for an hour.
I then tried the command prompt methods of BOOTREC/FIXMBR, BOOTREC/FIXBOOT, BOOTREC/REBUILDBCD and restarted with same black screen. *after the rebuildbcd, it said copies of windows = 0???*
So I tried to start using the install CD as a recovery drive, it brought up the option to install windows....
I'm not sure how I can get dumps or test stuff if there is no way for me to even get to the actual explorer other than the black screen or the black screen with the blue window logo, or even he more rare black screen with underscore blinking...
Can someone please help me out because after two days I'm at a loss here.
thanks
Mitchell
So I hooked the 60gb one up and put in my install disk for the 64bit of windows 8.1. It went through the install fine, then it said it needed to restart to complete and when it restarted it gave me the black screen of death. It sat there for over 30 minutes then the screen turned to a yellowish orange.
So I formatted the ssd, reinstalled fresh again. Same thing.
I then tried the 240gb thinking maybe I had a bad ssd. Same thing.
Then I tried an old 500gb Seagate that I knew worked but I formatted it and installed. Same thing.
So back to the 60gb I went, formatted, reinstalled 8.1 then it did the black screen again. So I tried booting over a couple times till it gave me the option to start in safe mode with networking. It started in a black screen with the blue windows logo... and stayed there for an hour.
I then tried the command prompt methods of BOOTREC/FIXMBR, BOOTREC/FIXBOOT, BOOTREC/REBUILDBCD and restarted with same black screen. *after the rebuildbcd, it said copies of windows = 0???*
So I tried to start using the install CD as a recovery drive, it brought up the option to install windows....
I'm not sure how I can get dumps or test stuff if there is no way for me to even get to the actual explorer other than the black screen or the black screen with the blue window logo, or even he more rare black screen with underscore blinking...
Can someone please help me out because after two days I'm at a loss here.
thanks
Mitchell
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1 64bit
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Custom Built by Me
- CPU
- AMD Phenom II 940 w/ Thermaltake SpinQ Heatsink ~2008 lol
- Motherboard
- MSI K92A Platinum
- Memory
- 4 x 2 Gig DDR2 1066 at 800mhz
- Graphics Card(s)
- PowerCooler HD 7870 Ghz Edition
- Sound Card
- Integrated
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- 2x Acer P215H
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- 1920x1080
- Hard Drives
- 1x 60GB Mushkin Chronos SSD - Operating system
1x 240GB Mushkin Chronos Deluxe - Core Games
1x 1TB Western Digital WD Caviar Green w/ 64mb cache - Mass Media Storage
1x 500GB Seagate Barracuda 7200 rpm - Secondary Game Storage
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- OZC Tech, 700w Total
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- Cooler Master Centurion
- Cooling
- 2x Aero Cool SHARK 14cm (Front/Top) 2x Aero Cool SHARK 10CM (Side/Back)
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- Old Bare-Bones compact Dell model
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- Ideazon Reaper Edge
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- DSL (crappy)
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