Some context: My girlfriend wanted a gaming pc, so we went to Best Buy and picked up a CyberPowerPC (model GMA3400BST). She hates Windows 10, so I installed 8.1. However, AMD or whoever dropped support for 8.1 a while back and I had no idea. I was trying to install drivers and it was going okay until I tried to install a graphics driver just to see if it would work. Peripherals stopped working. No mouse, no keyboard, no monitor. So I unplugged it, did a hard reset, and I had to do that a few times to get the peripherals to work. I tried one last ditch attempt to do Windows Update, and that seemed to be the last straw. Now they have not come back.
I have no idea if the stupid thing is even completing POST. There are lights, there's power, but none of the USB ports, no HDMI ports, NOTHING works. I've never had this much of a problem with wrong drivers before, ever!
I'd like to just say screw it and go back to Win10, but... how can I do that if the damn thing is brain dead from a bad driver?
(I went to school for this TEN YEARS ago... and I guess we don't do beep codes any more?! WHAT.)
I have no idea if the stupid thing is even completing POST. There are lights, there's power, but none of the USB ports, no HDMI ports, NOTHING works. I've never had this much of a problem with wrong drivers before, ever!
I'd like to just say screw it and go back to Win10, but... how can I do that if the damn thing is brain dead from a bad driver?
(I went to school for this TEN YEARS ago... and I guess we don't do beep codes any more?! WHAT.)