Processor: AMD A6-5400K APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics, AMD64 Family 21 Model 16 Stepping 1
Processor Count: 2
RAM: 5527 Mb
Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 7540D, 512 Mb
Hard Drives: C: Total - 932093 MB, Free - 876573 MB; D: Total - 20262 MB, Free - 2494 MB;
Motherboard: MSI, 2AE0
There are the physical specs on my computer. It had windows 8 64bit on it originally. I upgraded to 8.1 from the windows store. Tried to do a refresh and it failed and went to the blue screen.
RECOVERY
Your PC need to be repaired
A required device is not connected or can't be accessed.
Error Code:0xc000000f
Used a Hirens boot disc on a USB drive to get into it and ditched Win8 and installed Ubuntu 14.04
That worked fine for a few hours. I downloaded WinXP SP3 intending to install it as dual boot. Then I downloaded Commodo Firewall for Linux. I didn't install either of these, only downloaded and saved them. Right after that the screen went black. Now I cant boot any OS and every time I try to boot the screen goes black. If you power cycle the monitor you can see the screen for 5 seconds and then it goes black again. It an old HP vs17 flat screen monitor. Tried a different monitor, same results. I am convinced that something on the motherboard is shutting the monitor down, because I have tried booting with each device that plugs into the board disconnected one at a time. It could be a BIOS error, but with the monitor only working in snatches it's impossible to change BIOS settings. I have tried but the computer keeps reloading the defaults. The defaults shouldn't shut the monitor down, as far as I know. Does anyone have any ideas on how to solve this? If not I've got a $400 box of wires and circuits that I can only use for a paperweight.
Processor Count: 2
RAM: 5527 Mb
Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 7540D, 512 Mb
Hard Drives: C: Total - 932093 MB, Free - 876573 MB; D: Total - 20262 MB, Free - 2494 MB;
Motherboard: MSI, 2AE0
There are the physical specs on my computer. It had windows 8 64bit on it originally. I upgraded to 8.1 from the windows store. Tried to do a refresh and it failed and went to the blue screen.
RECOVERY
Your PC need to be repaired
A required device is not connected or can't be accessed.
Error Code:0xc000000f
Used a Hirens boot disc on a USB drive to get into it and ditched Win8 and installed Ubuntu 14.04
That worked fine for a few hours. I downloaded WinXP SP3 intending to install it as dual boot. Then I downloaded Commodo Firewall for Linux. I didn't install either of these, only downloaded and saved them. Right after that the screen went black. Now I cant boot any OS and every time I try to boot the screen goes black. If you power cycle the monitor you can see the screen for 5 seconds and then it goes black again. It an old HP vs17 flat screen monitor. Tried a different monitor, same results. I am convinced that something on the motherboard is shutting the monitor down, because I have tried booting with each device that plugs into the board disconnected one at a time. It could be a BIOS error, but with the monitor only working in snatches it's impossible to change BIOS settings. I have tried but the computer keeps reloading the defaults. The defaults shouldn't shut the monitor down, as far as I know. Does anyone have any ideas on how to solve this? If not I've got a $400 box of wires and circuits that I can only use for a paperweight.