Syribo
[H]ard|Gawd
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So my PC has been running perfectly since I built it last month. A few days ago, some crazy stuff started to happen after it restarted after installing some windows updates. I usually turn automatic updates off... but I forgot ugh.
Well, I noticed some random strange things. For one, text would randomly look strange.. not all the time, but some FB messages or fonts in browser would look very weird and different. Then I started getting a black screen with just my cursor available when I restarted and tried to get back into Windows. I couldn't get out of it. It was an endless loop, even automatic repair wouldn't work, nothing.
I was able to get to an old restore point, and everything was fine.. but when I started it up, it started automatically updating right away again. Everything was fine until I had to reboot, and then the same issues began once more. This time though, I couldn't even get it to go to an old restore point, nothing.
I looked up a lot of people having issues with some updates lately, and Microsoft even pulled them? Something with the fonts. I tried the instructions of deleting the fontcache file via command prompt when booting up with my windows disc.. but still couldn't get it to boot into 8.1. I finally gave up and reformatted, after switching out my SSD to get my files off it that I still needed with my old computer.
Well, I made sure not to install any of those updates, and turned off automatic update.. but now I have another issue. Before reformatting, the last two days I've been having games just crash and my graphics driver crash. Again, this was all fine until the other issues began two days ago. So I tried going back to an older driver, still crashing.
Both Terraria and FFXIV both completely lock up anytime I minimize or maximize the game. I have ATI Tool running as well, to test the GPU, and that's running fine without any errors or artifacts, and is still running even after the games and driver crash..
I've done clean installs, installed an older driver, a newer driver. I don't know what else to do. I think I'm going to take my old 8800GTS from my old computer, put it in this one, and see if I get any crashes, that way I can pinpoint if it's the GPU itself or not. Any ideas? This is driving me crazy now!
Well, I noticed some random strange things. For one, text would randomly look strange.. not all the time, but some FB messages or fonts in browser would look very weird and different. Then I started getting a black screen with just my cursor available when I restarted and tried to get back into Windows. I couldn't get out of it. It was an endless loop, even automatic repair wouldn't work, nothing.
I was able to get to an old restore point, and everything was fine.. but when I started it up, it started automatically updating right away again. Everything was fine until I had to reboot, and then the same issues began once more. This time though, I couldn't even get it to go to an old restore point, nothing.
I looked up a lot of people having issues with some updates lately, and Microsoft even pulled them? Something with the fonts. I tried the instructions of deleting the fontcache file via command prompt when booting up with my windows disc.. but still couldn't get it to boot into 8.1. I finally gave up and reformatted, after switching out my SSD to get my files off it that I still needed with my old computer.
Well, I made sure not to install any of those updates, and turned off automatic update.. but now I have another issue. Before reformatting, the last two days I've been having games just crash and my graphics driver crash. Again, this was all fine until the other issues began two days ago. So I tried going back to an older driver, still crashing.
Both Terraria and FFXIV both completely lock up anytime I minimize or maximize the game. I have ATI Tool running as well, to test the GPU, and that's running fine without any errors or artifacts, and is still running even after the games and driver crash..
I've done clean installs, installed an older driver, a newer driver. I don't know what else to do. I think I'm going to take my old 8800GTS from my old computer, put it in this one, and see if I get any crashes, that way I can pinpoint if it's the GPU itself or not. Any ideas? This is driving me crazy now!