Installed Windows 8.1. Getting a black screen with a white blinking _ and no hard drive activity.
Going into BIOS and changing to my internal graphics card (onboard Intel) boots into 8.1 fine, using my Nvidia 560Ti results in the black screen. I've updated my Nvidia drivers to the latest version and have been checking for Windows updates every day. Already have the latest BIOS installed. Everything worked fine in Windows 8, but since Microsoft is jumping ship on supporting that in two years, I think keeping up to date is going to be the best idea.
I have been googling things for a couple weeks now and am just running into the same articles about Nvidia already saying they have the best compatibility with Windows 8.1, despite many users having similar problems to mine, and Microsoft is as silent as ever. Meanwhile my desktop isn't usable for most of the tasks I need it for.
Any ideas would be appreciated!
Sidenote: I also have a laptop that installed 8.1 just fine, but after installing a graphics driver update a week after Windows 8.1 came out caused it to go into a blackscreen and I had to restore back to Windows 8 and lose all my files on that restore. Sucks, but weird that I got boned for the same problem on two different devices, with different vid card makes.
Going into BIOS and changing to my internal graphics card (onboard Intel) boots into 8.1 fine, using my Nvidia 560Ti results in the black screen. I've updated my Nvidia drivers to the latest version and have been checking for Windows updates every day. Already have the latest BIOS installed. Everything worked fine in Windows 8, but since Microsoft is jumping ship on supporting that in two years, I think keeping up to date is going to be the best idea.
I have been googling things for a couple weeks now and am just running into the same articles about Nvidia already saying they have the best compatibility with Windows 8.1, despite many users having similar problems to mine, and Microsoft is as silent as ever. Meanwhile my desktop isn't usable for most of the tasks I need it for.
Any ideas would be appreciated!
Sidenote: I also have a laptop that installed 8.1 just fine, but after installing a graphics driver update a week after Windows 8.1 came out caused it to go into a blackscreen and I had to restore back to Windows 8 and lose all my files on that restore. Sucks, but weird that I got boned for the same problem on two different devices, with different vid card makes.