Boot bug/error after installing W8.1

[Logix_X]

Hey guys,

So I built my own PC yesterday, It worked all good with my old ssd with windows 8. I wanted to reinstall windows and so I did. It installed W8 but I wanted W8.1 so I updated it and now this happens

http://youtu.be/eiEjAZ5O-6s.

Any idea whats up?

[Logix_X]

Anyone ;(

[Robin88]

Have you tried booting into safe mode and seeing if it happens there too? To get into safe mode, after you press the power button, keep tapping F8 until you get a black screen with the options for safe mode, safe mode with networking, last known good configuration etc. and choose safe mode (the one without networking)
If it doesn't, then you've got a driver issue, and my first suspect would be the GPU drivers, and I'd uninstall them from within safe mode and reboot, if it boots properly into Windows, then download and install the latest GPU drivers from the respective manufacturer. So if you have a nVidia GPU, download straight from nVidia's website and same for AMD.

Also, could you list your System specs please? It'll make it a bit easier for people to troubleshoot, cheers

[Logix_X]

Have you tried booting into safe mode and seeing if it happens there too? To get into safe mode, after you press the power button, keep tapping F8 until you get a black screen with the options for safe mode, safe mode with networking, last known good configuration etc. and choose safe mode (the one without networking)

If it doesn't, then you've got a driver issue, and my first suspect would be the GPU drivers, and I'd uninstall them from within safe mode and reboot, if it boots properly into Windows, then download and install the latest GPU drivers from the respective manufacturer. So if you have a nVidia GPU, download straight from nVidia's website and same for AMD.

Also, could you list your System specs please? It'll make it a bit easier for people to troubleshoot, cheers

Hey dude thanks for the help, tapping f8 doesnt work in windows 8.

CPU : i7 4790k

GPU : 970

MB: MSI Z97 Gaming 5

PSU : Evga Supernova 750 g2

[TetraSky]

Hey dude thanks for the help, tapping f8 doesnt work in windows 8.

CPU : i7 4790k

GPU : 970

MB: MSI Z97 Gaming 5

PSU : Evga Supernova 750 g2

What you can do, is shut down the PC while windows is booting. If done right, it will ask you if you want to repair or boot in Safe mode. (cut the power off if it's too fast)

[Robin88]

It does work, however, in your case it boots too fast to allow for F8 to work, what you'll need to do then is grab your installation DVD and boot to it, choose your language, and then in the next screen, choose "troubleshoot", then in the next screen choose "advanced troubleshooting", in the next screen choose the option for "startup settings" it'll tell you it'll need to restart, click restart and when it starts up, it'll display 9 options, choose "4) enable safe mode" by pressing F4 and Windows should then boot into safe mode.

From there continue the instructions above in my first post when you enter safe mode.

Nice system btw, hopefully we can get it working properly

Edit:

Please don't do that method that TetraSky mentioned, you can seriously fubar your system doing that, only use recommended techniques for shutting down and restarting your system. That method would give you those options because shutting down/restarting your PC in the way they mentioned has the ability to severely damage both hardware and software.