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windows 10 update now a black screen

Yeah I saw that unfortunately my recover USB drive doesn't do anything at all. I think a CD/DVD would work but I need my PC running to make one. Ugh

*I hear my DVD drive spin for a moment at start up
 
After doing battle for quite some time I have it working again. Picked up some DVD-R's burned the iso (on a different PC). First try didn't work, went into BIOS set DVD drive as first boot device, this kind of worked but I still couldn't enter safe mode (which sucks in windows 10 BTW), tried to repair files(?) that took forever and ultimately went to a blank screen without the DVD running, finally didn't follow any MS suggestions and used the recovery DVD to revert to a previous recovery date and everything appears pretty normal.
I'm tempted to do the reset my PC but keep my files, however I am afraid and tired.
 
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Fanatical Meat said:
After doing battle for quite some time I have it working again. Picked up some DVD-R's burned the iso, that wouldn't worked, went into BIOS set DVD drive as first boot device, this kind of worked but I still couldn't enter safe mode (which sucks in windows 10 BTW), tried to repair files(?) that took forever and ultimately went to a blank screen without the DVD running, finally didn't follow any MS suggestions and used the recovery DVD to revert to a previous recovery date and everything appears pretty normal.
I'm tempted to do the reset my PC but keep my files, however I am afraid and tired.
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This happened to me as well and unfortunately it didn't work again which is unacceptable. I think it's now time to bring it to the repair service. I don't know the reason and tried everything I can at my capacity but seems like noting of those are working.
 
When I had a graphics driver issue on my laptop the black screen happened to me. I ended up just performing a clean install to get past it.
 
Puffnstuff said:
When I had a graphics driver issue on my laptop the black screen happened to me. I ended up just performing a clean install to get past it.
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Yeah I'll probably do this. After 4 attempts I've finally got it where 2/3rds the time it starts normally. I even updated to the AMD window 10 package posted on 8/12.
 
Cool beans, glad to hear you got it all sorted out. Did you by chance swap out the TIM before you got it going again? I took the stock stuff off my alienware and replaced it with arctic silver 5.
 
Puffnstuff said:
Cool beans, glad to hear you got it all sorted out. Did you by chance swap out the TIM before you got it going again? I took the stock stuff off my alienware and replaced it with arctic silver 5.
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Puffnstuff said:
Cool beans, glad to hear you got it all sorted out. Did you by chance swap out the TIM before you got it going again? I took the stock stuff off my alienware and replaced it with arctic silver 5.
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I didn't have any but it seems fine. I'll probably order some and do it.
 
I had a similar problem with my Dell i15N laptop. The win-10 advisor said it was compatible but after the win10 upgrade it would boot to a blank screen. I discovered if I toggle the power button it would restore the desktop. At that point I reverted back to win-7.
 
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