Installed 8.1 And Now PC Won't Boot
Jun 27, 2013
Last night I installed windows 8.1 preview through the windows store. It all worked fine and it seemed like there was nothing wrong. When I woke up this morning my pc gets past the windows loading screen (The new fish thing looks just plain stupid) but then my screen just goes black. The screen is still on and receiving a signal but my pc won't get to the start screen.
I tried booting without any USB device plugged in.
I tried booting to safe mode but it had the same problem.
Start-up repair did not work. I removed my graphics card and used my the i5 2500k's graphics chip but still no use.
Before I installed 8.1 I removed the classic start-menu app before installing.
Is there anything else I can try before re-installing? All my files are backed up so it wont affect me that much but it will just be annoying to re-install all of my programs.
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seagate barracuda 7200.12 1TB
and
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Is this normal? if not then how do I use ALL of the memory?It detects that I have 8gb of ram but it only uses 4gb of it. I saw that 4gb was in hardware reserve and i dunno how to allocate more memory for use...
I have Windows 8.1 SL OEM
AMD FX-8350 8-Core @ 4GHz | Cooler Master Seidon 120v Liquid Cooling System | AMD Radeon R7 250 2gb DDR3 with Boost | ASRock 990FX Extreme4 | Kingston HyperX Fury 4gb (2x) | ThermaTake 700w LitePower| WD Caviar Green 2TB HDD | Corsair Carbide 300R Windowed
1. BIOS is updated
2. I can only change the DRAM Frequency in the BIOS, I currently set it to 1600 in hopes of fixing it
3. Msconfig > Boot > Advanced > Maximum memory unticked
4. I have also put both sticks in slot 1 & 3 but no luck
5. Kingston HyperX Fury is not on my mobo's compatibility list
6. Regedit-> Hkey local machine->CurrentControlSet->Control->SystemResources->ReservedResources -> No Value set
7. I tried to boot my pc using each sticks themselves, still no luck but:
8. There are no programs that are hogging the ram yet
9. I have contacted the Kingston representative over at tomshardware.com
10. for more details: 8GB of ram installed but i can only use 4GB of it? - RAM - Memory
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System Info Utility version 1.0.0.2
OS Version: Microsoft Windows 8.1, 64 bit
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2320 CPU @ 3.00GHz, Intel64 Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7
Processor Count: 4
RAM: 8096 Mb
Graphics Card: Intel(R) HD Graphics, -1988 Mb
Hard Drives: C: Total - 481675 MB, Free - 420949 MB; E: Total - 458777 MB, Free - 189661 MB; K: Total - 1430795 MB, Free - 916319 MB; L: Total - 2861578 MB, Free - 1765857 MB; M: Total - 61035 MB, Free - 60997 MB; O: Total - 476937 MB, Free - 51069 MB;
Motherboard: Gateway, IPISB-VR
Antivirus: Windows Defender, Disabled, Norton 360
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6.3.9600.17031
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