This is what happens for me. I have Win 8 Professional 64-bit installed on my laptop, which uses the Intel HD 3000 Graphics adapter. I have installed the latest driver from Intel, dated 8th March 2013, version 9.17.10.3062. I am running a dual boot system on separate partitions. Originally I had each operating system on separate hard drives, but I still had the problem. In the end, I worked out that it was the display adapter that was the issue. I tried all the fixes mentioned on this forum in different threads, but nothing resolved my problem. The issue always remained the same, regardless of what action I took, including installing earlier versions of display drivers that others found to work.
This is what happens when I log on to Windows 8 and how I finally get in:-
- Start up appears and proceeds to a certain point only;
- The screen goes blank;
- I put the laptop to sleep;
- I wait anywhere from 10-20 seconds;
- I wake up the laptop; and
- Bingo, I am into the login screen
- I continue as normal.
This is the ONLY process that works day in and day out. Sometimes at the end of the day, I just put the laptop to sleep instead of shutting down, but of course that is not a permanent solution, especially if updates require a Restart before they are fully applied.
If anyone knows of any way around this, I'd appreciate it. In the meantime, I'll just have to wait for whoever is responsible for providing updated drivers, gets their act together...
regards,
Pat. Mitchell