Windows 8 Sucks

[Hendrick9Fan]

You may have read about my little issue I had yesterday. Today it is something worse. Last night I shut down my PC like I normally would, but this afternoon when I turned it on, all I see is a black screen with only my cursor and the touch screen working. Nothing happens no matter how long I wait. No boot screen, no login screen. I am seriously getting tired of this windows 8 crap, I am thinking about returning the damn thing.
What should I do?

I've never had any problem like this before with any OS I've used before.Microsoft really went downhill with this shitty OS. All I want is a working pc, and I can't even get that.

 

[Darren Ingram]

I feel like a system restore might be in order. Not an OEM recovery, but a true clean install from an untouched Windows 8 .ISO. It might help fix your problem. You would have to find each driver that doesn't automatically install in Windows Update by yourself though.

You might also have luck installing Windows 7. Biggest concern would be Secure Boot and finding drivers for 7, but it shouldn't be too hard. Let me know if you wanna try to install 7, I could try to find some W7 drivers for ya.

 

[TColeman12]

Like Darren stated, a system restore will probably help. I was having a whole bunch of problems with my Windows 8 Asus laptop, and a system restore helped it alot.

 

[Janitor Dave]

Do you or did you have anything hooked in via HDMI? For some reason, sometimes both Nvidia and AMD's graphics drivers default HDMI devices to monitor #1 and monitor #1 isn't always your main monitor.

Not sure if that's where the problem lies, but sometimes it's something easily overlooked.

*Edit: Saw it was a laptop, not a desktop. disregard

 

[Mystical]

This is why I am skipping Win 8. When I custom built my new pc last year in I purposefully went with Windows 7 ultimate. Next pc build I make at the end of 2015 I'll be using Windows 10 most likely (it looks better than 8).

While I have to use windows 8 at work and its ok there I would never use it for personal use, it breaks my workflow too much.

 

[Hendrick9Fan]

How do I restore it? Pressing F8 does nothing.

 

[Darren Ingram]

Can you get into your BIOS at all? Try F1 or F2.

 

[Hendrick9Fan]

Edit: I figured it out, all I had to do was press and hold the power button for 15 seconds, and then it booted up fine.

Still a weird problem though.

 

[TColeman12]

In your search box, search "System Restore" and it will show up. Click on it and follow the steps to restore.