Hello everyone, my first post here.
To make a long story short, a USB video adapter that I was using with Windows 7 stopped working with Win 8, because the drivers are no longer compatible with the latest drivers for my older Nvidia graphics card (7900GS). So the manufacturer suggests on their website to try installing an older Nvidia driver thats still compatible with Win 8.
To make a long story short, the driver installed, the screen went black and stayed black from that point on. Panicked, I powered off the PC and thinking I could just get into Safe Mode and uninstall the driver, rebooted. Lo and behold I get a Boot Disk Failure error. So I then used the Win 8 install DVD to get to repair options, but the Automatic Repair does nothing whatsoever. I then started reading up and tried the usual bootrec commands to try and fix the issue but to no avail. Finally I booted Hiren's Boot CD,, and used the first Boot From Hard Drive option and the PC boots, but the screen stays black. The crazy thing is, the mouse cursor appears but the screen is black.
So I know Windows is working but for the video driver.
The solution is obvious - get to Safe Mode and uninstall the driver to get windows back to the default microsoft drivers.
Unfortunately, not so simple to get to Safe Mode as I am running Win 8 on an old Abit IP-35pro board without any of the UEFI goodies that newer boards have. I have tried the tutorials here but nothing seems to work.
When I try any of the bcdedit commands from the command prompt, I get the following:
"The boot configuration data store could not be opened. The system cannot find the specified file."
At this point I think I'm going to have to bite the bullet and just re-install Windows but I really do not want to have to do that at all. That's why I'm hoping someone here will be able to offer some suggestions or pointers.
I did read on one site that one person had run into this issue and what he did was to start the install DVD, and elect to install Windows, as opposed to going to the repair options, ignored the message about the existing Windows installation, then once the files were copied to the hard drive, canceled the install at the first prompt after files are copied and then went back into the repair options off the install DVD and restored from a system restore point.
Would this even work?
To make a long story short, a USB video adapter that I was using with Windows 7 stopped working with Win 8, because the drivers are no longer compatible with the latest drivers for my older Nvidia graphics card (7900GS). So the manufacturer suggests on their website to try installing an older Nvidia driver thats still compatible with Win 8.
To make a long story short, the driver installed, the screen went black and stayed black from that point on. Panicked, I powered off the PC and thinking I could just get into Safe Mode and uninstall the driver, rebooted. Lo and behold I get a Boot Disk Failure error. So I then used the Win 8 install DVD to get to repair options, but the Automatic Repair does nothing whatsoever. I then started reading up and tried the usual bootrec commands to try and fix the issue but to no avail. Finally I booted Hiren's Boot CD,, and used the first Boot From Hard Drive option and the PC boots, but the screen stays black. The crazy thing is, the mouse cursor appears but the screen is black.
So I know Windows is working but for the video driver.
The solution is obvious - get to Safe Mode and uninstall the driver to get windows back to the default microsoft drivers.
Unfortunately, not so simple to get to Safe Mode as I am running Win 8 on an old Abit IP-35pro board without any of the UEFI goodies that newer boards have. I have tried the tutorials here but nothing seems to work.
When I try any of the bcdedit commands from the command prompt, I get the following:
"The boot configuration data store could not be opened. The system cannot find the specified file."
At this point I think I'm going to have to bite the bullet and just re-install Windows but I really do not want to have to do that at all. That's why I'm hoping someone here will be able to offer some suggestions or pointers.
I did read on one site that one person had run into this issue and what he did was to start the install DVD, and elect to install Windows, as opposed to going to the repair options, ignored the message about the existing Windows installation, then once the files were copied to the hard drive, canceled the install at the first prompt after files are copied and then went back into the repair options off the install DVD and restored from a system restore point.
Would this even work?
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8