Windows 8 Installation hangs at blue screen.

[thejon1337]

Hello everyone, I have an annoying problem I can't seem to fix.

I bought a Lenovo Y580 6 months ago, and I love it. Problem is, I can't seem to install windows 8 anymore. I've done 2 clean windows 8 installs on it before, but suddenly it refuses to do it again.

The problem is, no matter what install method I try, it leaves me hanging at the blue windows 8 logo. I've tried a clean boot install (boot off disc/usb to install it), I've tried installing from Windows 7 (same issue after restarted), and I've tried tons of BIOS configuration options.

I've done many things:

- checked to make sure it's not my disc drive (by using an external disc drive, and a usb. still had issues)
- checked to make sure it's not my disc (burned several copies and tried many different flash drives)
- checked to make sure it's not my hard drive (scan with seatools showed it's fine)

I've read other posts here, but none of the solutions in them have worked. 4 months ago I did a clean install and it worked. Nothing hardware based has changed, and now it won't. I can install Windows 7, any flavor of linux, everything except for Windows 8 will install just fine.

Any and all suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[dodger46]

Presume you removed all partitions and formatted NTFS from a bootable installation/repair disk?

 

[thejon1337]

Yeah, I clean wiped all the partitions, from a windows 7 recovery disk, from a Linux recovery disk, and even ran disk check tools in linux to make sure it's not a problem with my disk.

I can't update the BIOS, there is no update for it yet. I've almost given up....
Something that may help, I was able to install windows 8 about a week ago, but out of my stupidity I clean wiped over it again, to try to replicate it. No more windows 8 ):

 

[dodger46]

Guess the problem must lie with the BIOS, can you refresh it by flashing with the current edition, assuming that the present installation is corrupt? Can think of nowhere else to go... Unless you see something else in jpishgar's guide to black screens which might help (even tho you don't have a black screen)
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/faq/id-1650840/fix-black-screen-booting-windows.html

 

[thejon1337]

I'm not sure I can flash the bios again, there is no link for the bios on the lenovo drivers site, only the windows 7 bios. I tried downloading it, but as expected, it said I didn't have compatible hardware. I'll look at that guide soon and let you know.

I've been looking around, and I know I'm not the only one with this problem. At least windows 7 is pretty nice to use in the meantime.