Black screen after bios

Tomselleck · February 24, 2016

Computer randomly wouldn't recognise keyboard. After rebooting it showed bios (press_ to enter) then idles on a black screen. If i move the mouse, a cursor displays with a buffering symbol. After waiting 30mins nothing happens. The picture attached shows what appears 50s into being idle. Ive reseated the ram. unplugged all cords. Nothings worked. Any help appreciated thanks.

Specs:

Win 8.1

Asus m5a97 r2.0

Corsair 500w

Fx6300

Wd 1tb hdd

R9 270x

4x4 gb adata 1600

TrifectaIII · February 24, 2016

Well it looks like you are booting into... something. Might be a corrupted windows install, in which case all there is to do is reinstall.

KaasKop · February 25, 2016

Ye i have had the same problem multiple times, blame Windows Updates for installing GPU drivers when there is already one installed... (at least that's what it was in my case)

You could try booting into safe mode and remove the last Windows update.

Or what I had to do, reinstall Windows.

Tomselleck · February 25, 2016

8 minutes ago, KaasKop said:

Ye i have had the same problem multiple times, blame Windows Updates for installing GPU drivers when there is already one installed... (at least that's what it was in my case)

You could try booting into safe mode and remove the last Windows update.

Or what I had to do, reinstall Windows.

Yeah it wont let me boot in safe mode. Looks like im going to have to reinstall windows. Thanks for the help and suggestions.