- Sep 1, 2013
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Hello,
I have been having issues with a recent Avatar PC I bought (yeah yeah I didn't build one due to grant restraints
) which came with Win8 pre-installed, and everything was peachy when I got used to the UI.
I have a 128GB SSD that I use for Win8, and a 2 TB drive for data.
My machine started doing some strange stuff when I had a bad crash (possibly USB-related but could also be attributed to a GPU driver). It immediately began "encountering problems", like various NTFS/KERNEL style errors and needed to shut itself down constantly.
I decided that I would do a "Reset" (all drives, complete reset), and had the problems fixed themselves for a short time. It took forever, and I reinstalled my stuff, and it all went downhill from there.
The reset seemed to end up being ineffective, and after trying every possible permutation of combinations of reset current drive, all drives, user data, all data, etc...
At this point, all I want to do is boot to my recovery disk, it just goes straight to the blue screen. I also have 2 installations it seems and I am getting more confused by the minute.
I cannot boot to my recovery disk (or any DVD) I have tried the method with disabling UEFI in advanced repair settings, but the large box wasn't there for that option so I began toggling certain options (the simpler stuff) to see what would work and what wouldn't but I think I'm in over my head, the BIOS is much more complicated than I'm used to.
My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 (I hope that may help...)
Anyway, I just want to wipe the whole computer basically and start from scratch, and I just can't figure out how to do it, no matter what I cannot boot to the DVD and I want to get a "clean start" because I think the problem goes pretty deep, and I am sure I made it worse, as always
Any help would be greatly appreciated, and I'm glad to provide as much info about my PC as I can, even though I can't boot.
Thank you for your time, and I hope this post is in the proper place and if it's not formatted correctly, this is my first post.
Thanks again,
-Jeff
I have been having issues with a recent Avatar PC I bought (yeah yeah I didn't build one due to grant restraints
) which came with Win8 pre-installed, and everything was peachy when I got used to the UI.I have a 128GB SSD that I use for Win8, and a 2 TB drive for data.
My machine started doing some strange stuff when I had a bad crash (possibly USB-related but could also be attributed to a GPU driver). It immediately began "encountering problems", like various NTFS/KERNEL style errors and needed to shut itself down constantly.
I decided that I would do a "Reset" (all drives, complete reset), and had the problems fixed themselves for a short time. It took forever, and I reinstalled my stuff, and it all went downhill from there.
The reset seemed to end up being ineffective, and after trying every possible permutation of combinations of reset current drive, all drives, user data, all data, etc...
At this point, all I want to do is boot to my recovery disk, it just goes straight to the blue screen. I also have 2 installations it seems and I am getting more confused by the minute.
I cannot boot to my recovery disk (or any DVD) I have tried the method with disabling UEFI in advanced repair settings, but the large box wasn't there for that option so I began toggling certain options (the simpler stuff) to see what would work and what wouldn't but I think I'm in over my head, the BIOS is much more complicated than I'm used to.
My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 (I hope that may help...)
Anyway, I just want to wipe the whole computer basically and start from scratch, and I just can't figure out how to do it, no matter what I cannot boot to the DVD and I want to get a "clean start" because I think the problem goes pretty deep, and I am sure I made it worse, as always
Any help would be greatly appreciated, and I'm glad to provide as much info about my PC as I can, even though I can't boot.
Thank you for your time, and I hope this post is in the proper place and if it's not formatted correctly, this is my first post.
Thanks again,
-Jeff
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