Recent content by Shade9623

EDIT: Honestly, using it on my TV isn't so bad lol. I think I'll hang onto 8 and just try to get this resolved. Perhaps I'm experiencing a bit of stockholm syndrome with Microsoft but..whatever haha ;). Anything worth trying next? For now I'm going back to fully updated drivers and everything.

No luck :(.

No luck, even did a system reset and a system refresh. What's odd though is that the fn key to turn my laptop's display on and off still works, as well as the brightness adjusters. Obviously I can't see anything on the screen itself but I have the choice between completely black(off) and...

I upgraded the drivers previously, but not since doing a complete computer reset + a system refresh. I'll try that again and see if it does the trick lol.

Laptop's screen is still black, but at least I can see the screen on my TV with the HDMI out. Running a system "refresh" while waiting for technical support to pick up. Lol I don't think I've ever been this frustrated with a PC issue. Microsoft really let me down on this, blows my mind how an...

I'll give that a shot but I don't understand why it would be fine after first installing, but start having this problem after I rebooted. I left it to format the hard drive overnight, came back to the same problem. I guess I need to try to a fresh re-install at this point. EDIT: Refresh rate...

Upgraded to windows 8 pro, got black screen after restart. The laptop I have is an ASUS g74, I purchased the copy of windows 8 from microsoft's site, upgrading from windows 7 pro. I opted to keep all my personal files/apps because the programs it warned me as being incompatible were random...