- Nov 11, 2013
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I upgraded to Win 8.1 over the weekend, or at least attempted to. It did not go smooth at all. The initial issue I was having is after the first few screens of install, Win 8 froze on the splash screen and the spinning dot below the blue windows logo stopped working. I let this go for several hours and then restarted the PC, only to have the same thing happen at the same point. I then left it load overnight Saturday only to wake up to the same frozen splash screen.
So, I completely wiped my SSD and 1gb hard drive (I unplugged my 3gb HD as that had all of my saved files on it) and did a fresh install of Window 7 (again). This also proved to be an issue because it would reboot to a black screen with a blinking cursor and not move off of this screen. I troubleshot the heck out of this and I do not believe it is my SSD as that is only a month old. I am thinking it has something to do with the BIO's?? Not sure.
Anyway, I forced my way through this problem by manually booting from disk every time I restarted during install. I then had to boot from my SSD after pushing F12 following the Win 7 final install screen. This opened up windows fine.
Next I began the Windows 8.1 upgrade. I downloaded my Win 8.1 and copied it to a disc as a iso file (did not have a large enough thumb drive). I began the Win 8.1 install as a fresh install as well. I would again be frozen on the same point at the splash screen. I would force restart and window's would begin install, but my mouse would be off. Another restart and installation continued. Every time it would restart, it would freeze, so I had to F12 it and manually boot it from disk and then from SSD when it was complete. I was a little worried about my MOBO considering the USB issues I have been having with my headset and now the mouse (upon restart). Not sure if this worry is valid.
So following the steps above, I finally got into Windows 8.1 and I am all set up. One issue remains. Upon restart, I am still stuck on either a frozen splash screen that forces me to restart only to do it successfully with out my mouse on (making me restart again....). Then I manually boot from my SSD and finally I am in Windows 8.
Any thoughts? I am frustrated.
So, I completely wiped my SSD and 1gb hard drive (I unplugged my 3gb HD as that had all of my saved files on it) and did a fresh install of Window 7 (again). This also proved to be an issue because it would reboot to a black screen with a blinking cursor and not move off of this screen. I troubleshot the heck out of this and I do not believe it is my SSD as that is only a month old. I am thinking it has something to do with the BIO's?? Not sure.
Anyway, I forced my way through this problem by manually booting from disk every time I restarted during install. I then had to boot from my SSD after pushing F12 following the Win 7 final install screen. This opened up windows fine.
Next I began the Windows 8.1 upgrade. I downloaded my Win 8.1 and copied it to a disc as a iso file (did not have a large enough thumb drive). I began the Win 8.1 install as a fresh install as well. I would again be frozen on the same point at the splash screen. I would force restart and window's would begin install, but my mouse would be off. Another restart and installation continued. Every time it would restart, it would freeze, so I had to F12 it and manually boot it from disk and then from SSD when it was complete. I was a little worried about my MOBO considering the USB issues I have been having with my headset and now the mouse (upon restart). Not sure if this worry is valid.
So following the steps above, I finally got into Windows 8.1 and I am all set up. One issue remains. Upon restart, I am still stuck on either a frozen splash screen that forces me to restart only to do it successfully with out my mouse on (making me restart again....). Then I manually boot from my SSD and finally I am in Windows 8.
Any thoughts? I am frustrated.
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