Windows 8 Consumer Preview Won't Boot

[mosk33toe]

After what seems to be a successful installation of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview (on a separate partition for dual-booting) my computer restarts, BIOS posts, it goes to the Beta Fish loading screen then instead of bringing me to the boot loader menu I am brought to a blank screen with only my mouse cursor visable.

I was never able to get it to work, and was never even brought to the "Personalize" screen for Windows 8.

The only way that I could boot back into Windows 7 was to format the partition with Windows 8 on it and then when I rebooted it asked me run Repair since the OS was missing, then I would just boot to Windows 7 from there.

I was thinking it might be a graphics driver problem, but I am not sure (I have an EVGA GTX 560TI).

I am not sure if anyone else is running into this issue, but any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[sm625]

I would think it should at least be able to load the standard video driver... The most likely cause of the problem is that microsoft is trash, competing with apple to see who can release the biggest steaming pile of crap. I was going to try it out on my notebook until I saw a video where the OS was consuming 15% of the cpu just doing mundane tasks. And this was a core i5 sandy bridge cpu! Hell with that. My cpu would be at 40%. For idle that is bat@#^# crazy. They need to change the Start button to a Fail button.

 

[Binky]

Did you try booting in IDE mode, instead of AHCI?

 

[Annon2255]

Did you try booting in IDE mode, instead of AHCI?

This is the only way I can get it to work. I've tried registry fixes and drivers but have found nothing to get it to work for me in AHCI. If you find a way let me know =D