Solved Help Needed - No display at all, possibly missing drivers

[TheGladChad]

f2 still does nothing. I also tried shift+f2 and still nothing. should i try the "Boot secure" from the bios menu?

 

[rvcjew]

shift f2 should do nothing it has to be shift -f8 and you have to spam f8 really fast while holding shift its hard to get rightm if you have a windows disk or can get one that would work better since you can boot off it, when you hit f2 and get options what are they?

 

[TheGladChad]

I am slightly confused. Should i be hitting f8 or f2 ?

 

[rvcjew]

f2 is for your motherboard options and once past post then shift f8 is what opens windows 8 recovery tools.

 

[rvcjew]

you should be hitting only shift f8

 

[TheGladChad]

shift and f8 does nothing either

 

[rvcjew]

your os might be hosed as this is the only ways i know of to get to it without a windows disk How To Boot Into Safe Mode On Windows 8 (The Easy Way) and i take it your dont have a windows disk?

 

[TheGladChad]

So should i keep trying to do this at startup? and when it doesn't work just turn it off and try again?

 

[rvcjew]

wow cant believe i skipped over that if you still have the card will it boot if you put the card back in?

 

[TheGladChad]

I've tried that but i can try again

 

[rvcjew]

the problem with 8 is it was designed to be able to reisntall it self if you will and that does nto work if you cant get to recovery options. removing the normal safemode toggle was a dumb move by microsoft for sure. in your bios do you have a option to turn off fast boot? it might be windows boots to fast for the rubbish f8 to take effect if the system is set up right windows can boot in like 5 seconds. do you have a hdd or a ssd for your system?

 

[TheGladChad]

Will I be able to get it recovered at a computer store of some sort?

 

[rvcjew]

yud be better off getting recovery disks from gateway probably. read my edit post above

 

[TheGladChad]

but i am not able to boot from any discs because i cannot reach the boot menu, so wouldn't that be useless?

 

[rvcjew]

Oh that's okay I understand now go to that link I had above for your users guide it explains in the recovery area how to enable your not menu in the bios.

 

[TheGladChad]

Okay, thank you very much for your help. Should I mark this as solved or no?

 

[rvcjew]

Not till your system is fixed I'd say if you want you can unmark it later. Either you post in it people will see it again.

 

[TheGladChad]

Okay, thank you