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After upgrading graphics card, Windows 10 no longer boots properly
I recently tried to upgrade my graphics card (Geforce GT640 to a Gigabyte Geforce GTX 970 mini). However, after switching to the new card, Windows 10 Home Edition no longer booted properly - instead of Windows starting, I would get a blank (black) screen with a blinking cursor in the upper left, after which nothing would happen. After initially having this problem, I had thought that getting into safe mode might help, so I switched back to my original graphics card to get into Windows and then followed the “Option 1” instructions on this post https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/2...a.html#option1 in order to enable F8 advanced boot options. I restarted my computer with the original graphics card and used F8 upon booting, verifying that I am able to access these advanced boot options and enter Windows 10 safe mode with my original graphics card. I then exchanged to the new graphics card again, and upon booting up the computer, I hit F8 in order to try and get into advanced boot options and safe mode.
However, after hitting F8 several times in a boot-up that lasted several minutes (longer than it normally takes to boot-up), instead of taking me to advanced boot options, it took me straight into Windows 10. Thinking the problem was somehow solved, I installed the drivers for my new graphics card and everything seemed to work fine.
I then restarted the computer, only to find that my original problem of getting a blank screen with a cursor was still an issue. It seems that the only way for me to enter Windows now whenever I turn on/restart my computer is by hitting f8 repeatedly upon start-up, in a start-up process that lasts several minutes (I guess that I probably don’t have to hit it repeatedly, but I don’t know exactly at what point hitting f8 causes it to go into Windows). Otherwise, if I do nothing, I go to the blank screen with a cursor and nothing happens, and I need to power off and restart.
I also noticed that I am unable to enter the BIOS menu on boot-up – hitting f10 instead of f8 causes me to enter a blank screen after several minutes, but this time without a cursor (I don’t know if this is important, but I noted that hitting ctrl-alt-delete on this blank screen caused the computer to restart again, whereas the other blank screen with the cursor is totally unresponsive).
While in Windows, I have used SFC /scannow and no integrity violations were found.
My specs are as follows:
Hewlett-Packard Company
h8-1380t
I7 3.60 Ghz processor
10 Gigabytes of RAM
64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
2 terabyte hard drive
While my computer is able to function by hitting f8 whenever I reboot my computer, I am concerned by the fact that I can no longer enter the BIOS menu at boot-up and that this bizarre issue of needing f8 to enter Windows may affect things in the future, such as if some future update requires a restart, and that this may affect that process.
Sorry for the long post and thanks for any help you can provide!