Hey guys, and thanks again for all of your help and time in advance. It is all truly appreciated on these forums.
I am running into a new issue, title of the thread says it all. I can see my cursor only when I move it with my mouse and my game pad I use lights up and turns off repeatedly - coinciding with this I see the little blue loading circle on the cursor only when the game pad is lit up, if that has any significance.
I went ahead and did a full system restore (thankfully I made one on May 25th when I was doing software maintenance) but that lead on no avail. I'm stuck at this point and not sure what to do next.
If it's of any importance, my last shut off I believe was a BSOD, 'Netio.sys'. I believe that BSOD has something to do with network or networking adapters. I think the reason I crashed is because my network adapter is fried and I am using a jackery5 USB to ethernet adapter and I had unplugged the ethernet port earlier that day. But that simply could be nothing at all regarding my issue here.
What should I do next?
xGovernor.
Update : I feel like I am really in a bad place now. I cannot boot into any safe mode, access Task manager or CMD from the black screen. I needed to access the recovery menu to then access it's CMD. I ran sfc /scannow and then after it successfully repaired files, I attempted to delete "Windows activation technologies" and it said it could not locate the folder. I then ran a command to unhide all hidden folders (already unhidden on my desktop but ran it anyways) and same result. I even went and started regedit to try to find it but the directory in the registry it was supposed to be located in wasn't there - so I am assuming it is non existent. I am in an extremely serious dilemma now. Please help!
I have Kali linux installed on my SSD ready to dual boot if need be, let there be any practical solution I could use with another OS to fix this. Could I make a Windows 8.1 live USB drive and then update the OS again potentially resulting in a fix?
I am running into a new issue, title of the thread says it all. I can see my cursor only when I move it with my mouse and my game pad I use lights up and turns off repeatedly - coinciding with this I see the little blue loading circle on the cursor only when the game pad is lit up, if that has any significance.
I went ahead and did a full system restore (thankfully I made one on May 25th when I was doing software maintenance) but that lead on no avail. I'm stuck at this point and not sure what to do next.
If it's of any importance, my last shut off I believe was a BSOD, 'Netio.sys'. I believe that BSOD has something to do with network or networking adapters. I think the reason I crashed is because my network adapter is fried and I am using a jackery5 USB to ethernet adapter and I had unplugged the ethernet port earlier that day. But that simply could be nothing at all regarding my issue here.
What should I do next?
xGovernor.
Update : I feel like I am really in a bad place now. I cannot boot into any safe mode, access Task manager or CMD from the black screen. I needed to access the recovery menu to then access it's CMD. I ran sfc /scannow and then after it successfully repaired files, I attempted to delete "Windows activation technologies" and it said it could not locate the folder. I then ran a command to unhide all hidden folders (already unhidden on my desktop but ran it anyways) and same result. I even went and started regedit to try to find it but the directory in the registry it was supposed to be located in wasn't there - so I am assuming it is non existent. I am in an extremely serious dilemma now. Please help!
I have Kali linux installed on my SSD ready to dual boot if need be, let there be any practical solution I could use with another OS to fix this. Could I make a Windows 8.1 live USB drive and then update the OS again potentially resulting in a fix?