Windows 8 hangs at windows logo

By RickC , August 12, Search In. Share More sharing options Followers 0. Recommended Posts. Posted March 9, I rebooted the system last night to complete a Windows update, and on restarting the OS, it seems to just hang straight after displaying the Windows logo.

It flickers the display on and off every 10 seconds or so, while it attempts to displays the Lock screen that hides the logon screen. It seems at this point like a possible video driver issue, so the next option is to start up in Safe Mode F8 during boot It manages to achieve the connection, but a few seconds after the RDC session window appears, before it has a chance to show the logon screen, the window is closed, and I'm dropped right back to the main RDC options window.

Normally at this point, I'd consider the good old "Last Known Good Configuration" option, but for whatever stupid reason, the boffins at Redmond have decided to remove this sometimes vital option, or they've hidden it somewhere, so you have to go through some needless extra steps to bring it back.

I only ever do that as an absolute last resort when all other available options haven't worked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options A bit of an update: It's looking increasingly likely to be a problematic video driver issue, although I could still be wrong with that assumption.

While the display still flickers on and off every few seconds as though the Gfx card is repeatedly failing to send a signal to the monitor there is still an audio output while the system is attempting to display the Lock screen, and there is hard drive activity, as though the relevant bits of the OS that normally load at this point are still loading.

YanksOnTop Posted March 9, KRazpopov Posted March 9, Post some hardware specs. We need more info from the OP, system specs mostly. The system still boots into Windows XP dual boot alongside Windows 8 with no issues.

Posted March 11, Would it help if I were to swap them between the two machines, or would it make no difference at all? Would my main PC see it as though it was exactly the same physical gfx card, or would it notice there had been a physical hardware change? Posted March 12, Posted March 16, I've setup a laptop with Windows 8 to lend to a friend.

It's a year old Toshiba laptop with a hardware spec that couldn't be much more different than my main desktop tower PC that the issue first occured on. Previous Next Sort by votes. Hello Honorable. Jul 8, 3 0 10, 0. I was downloading league of legends and then when it was done my computer crashed. I turned it on again and it got stuck on the windows loading screen.

I then force shut down the computer by holding the power button down. Then it shows: "preparing automatic repair" and after 10 seconds it goes into a blue screen. Then I turn back on; and the same thing happens again. I had a similar problem when this computer was running in windows 7, where the computer go stuck at the "starting windows" logo.

However back in windows 7 I could go into safe mode and change and repair things. Nov 19, 4, 1 24, You could repeatedly try shift plus F8 at power on and you may get into Safe Mode.

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