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Well, I've been using Windows 8 Pro x64 on my laptop for 2 weeks now.
Sometimes it just shows a black screen, with mouse cursor, after typing in the password. I can go to Task Manager by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Esc, start Command Prompt, and type "shutdown /r" to restart it to normal.
I tried downloading the hotfix (Fix413812) from Microsoft and it says "cannot be applied on your system". How can I get the fast startup working?
2013-04-12 16:58:50
I had a similar problem with my WIN8-64 Pro upgrade of WIN6-64 Ultimate. About 1/3 of the time with a cold or warm boot/re-boot I would get a black screen that just stayed there. I would cycle power and it would almost always boot OK after the black screen, but not always. Sometimes took 3 or 4 attempts. Once up, it ran fine. My fix was to create an Acronis emergency boot disk CD and then just leave it in one of the DVD drives. The system tries to boot off the Acronis disk first, times out when I don't input that it should boot off the Acronis CD and then it ALWAYS boots of my SSD HD normally. I think that this is related to Microsoft playing with startup operations to make it seem like WIN8 is booting much faster than WIN7 does. They let you start doing I/O before WIN8 is fully up and sometimes WIN8 gets ahead of the hardware being ready...and it stalls with that black screen. Making the system check a bootable CD before going to your C drive to boot lets everything stabilize in the hardware before WIN8 starts to boot from the C drive. My speculation.I have also heard that disabling fast start in WIN8 solves the problem, but have not tried this. I use the Acronis CD "fix" on my laptop, too, and it works there as well, too.
2013-04-13 01:30:13
It always startup fine without fast startup, and also OK starting up from hibernation. And I won't just leave a CD inside the drive all the time (it's a laptop!)
2013-04-11 16:05:16
avast antivirus has problems with windows 8. If you have Avast uninstall it
2013-04-11 07:01:51
You say that when you tried to apply the fix it gave this message: cannot be applied on your system. Was there anymore to this message? The reason why I ask is that everything I have read points to the Fix413812 or (KB 2756559).Are you sure you are attempting the fix with the right version i.e. 64bit and your language?
2013-04-11 08:50:33
Yep, 64bit, and there's only one for any language.
2013-04-11 06:51:16
You say you cannot flash the BIOS because it is too new, have you actually checked for an upgrade?Just because your laptop is new does not mean that your BIOS version is.
2013-04-11 08:48:02
Checked already. In fact, I've been checking for driver updates so often.
2013-04-11 03:40:53
Hello Pooky,There are a lot of solutions on this forum. You should definitely check it outhttp://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w8itproinstall/thread/13202265-baea-47e7-9eae-c1b2aec2206e/
2013-04-11 01:49:36
get windows 7 back...Windows 8 is a disaster. I had the same problem a refresh fixed it, but i kept getting more and more issues...its windows 8 itself its broken go back to windows 7. their was nothing wrong with it.
2013-04-10 13:15:54
How to make SP_Flashing Tool Compatible with Windows 8 (Unsigned Driver)http://pinoyscreencast.net/how-to-make-sp_flashing-tool-compatible-with-windows-8-unsigned-driver/
2013-04-10 15:55:13
Vishal, please do not copy content from other websites without quoting your source! I have replaced your comment with the link to the original source.
2013-04-10 12:57:22
I think your hardware can cause this problem, please try to reinstall all driver in your laptop, but make sure to uninstall your driver before you install the new driver.
2013-04-13 01:26:20
Then what should I use instead?
2013-04-10 10:45:55
How To Repair Windows 8 Using The Refresh and Reset Featurehttp://www.maketecheasier.com/repair-windows-8-with-refresh-and-reset/2013/01/29can be video card driver problem, go to device manager locate it, right click on it and choose uninstall (do not delete) reboot, Windows will reinstall the driver.
2013-04-18 07:10:20
Tried that, didn't work, any idea?