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Black screen of death after driver update

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  • Windows 8
  • Option
  • Video Driver
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February 15, 2014 1:22:55 PM

Fresh install of Win8.1. Try to update the video driver to current vendor version and during install screen goes black and goodbye, can't do anything, only option is to reinstall OS (reboots lead to black screen also). Any ideas?

More about : black screen death driver update

February 15, 2014 1:33:37 PM

I can't find a way to get into safe mode. This is a computer I built myself (I've done it before) with AMD A10-7850k APU. I've reinstalled Windows many times last couple days trying to figure it out until I narrowed it down to the video driver.

I looked at that link after posting. I can only get to those options if I boot off the install media. Bottom line is once I try to install the driver I have no way I can find to get back into windows, the screen is black (monitor goes into sleep mode) and I can't do anything other than reinstall windows from scratch again.
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