VERY BAD Windows 8 Graphics Card Issue

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With my graphics card enabled in the BIOS, my computer simply won't boot into Windows 8, all other OS's work perfectly fine. The installation disk screen is also all distorted. I recorded a video of what happens: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo4XC6o9HJE

I find this very annoying as I have a high end GPU which I can't use!

Here is my spec:

Antec 300 Gaming Case

OCZ ZS 650w PSU

AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 850 "95W Edition" 3.30GHz

AMD 760G (AM3) Motherboard GA-MA78LMT-S2

8GB DDR3 1600MHz Dual Channel

1x 1TB HDD

1x OCZ Vertex 4 128GB Solid State Hard Drive


Asus GeForce GTX 570 DirectCU II 1280MB GDDR5

3x White LED 120mm Fans

OS - Windows 8

Any help is appreciated,

Thanks.

EDIT- further information

Thanks for the replies, this just seem to be a Windows 8 issue at the very lowest level before any specific drivers are installed.

1) If I install Windows 7, or Linux I can read the installation screens and install and boot the OS without issue

2) Games including Battlefield 3, Crysis 2 all work without any issue on Window 7 and have for the last 2 years

3) Window 8 install screen screws up straight after the new MS Logo, the screen is almost unreadable, with double ghosting text and mouse trail artifacts.

4) If I continue I can just about see the next button and install, but it all fails, will not boot and can't repair.

5) I have managed to get to the windows safe mode desktop, again unreadable and install latest NVIDIA drivers - On the basis that drivers might fix what appears to be a lower down the tree problem. This didn't fix anything and windows crashes with GPU fans spinning at 100%

6) Another interesting observation, there is a screen in Windows 8 where you can select boot options after the OS recovers from a crash. This screen is 100% legible! however if I select any options other than safe mode, or safe mode with command prompt from this menu then the screen just goes blank and nothing happens. Both Safe modes are again corrupt.

7) Install windows 7 using NVIDIA on board graphics, or switching to on board afterwards then there is no issues. The Asus GeForce GTX 570 DirectCU II just does not like Windows 8 straight from the install disk, I've never had anything like this before.

Hope this clarifies my issue and thanks for those who have replied.
 
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It honestly looks like artifacts to me. Windows 8 uses GPU acceleration for the GUI so it may be showing something.

I would also try another one if you have access to it as I would assume its a bad card.

Also try running windows 7 and run FurMark or a very high stress game on it.
 
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based on your statement that other os' work, my guess is driver. it isnt working with 8. the fact that bios, boot, load are all fine, it is only when it actually gets to 8 that is screws up....driver. might take patience, but get the latest driver, maybe on a different machine and copied to a thumb drive or disk, then try to install.
 
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I would boot one of the other OS's and run a video stress(OCCT: GPU test) test it does indeed look like artifacting.

Vista/7/8 all used hardware acceleration for the desktop.

Back in the XP days you would only see artifacts in games. By the time they got to showing in windows, the card was REAL bad.

Drivers have been known to do some very strange things.
 
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If the VRAM is bad (normally the case for any artifacts unless caused by heat) it will show on the DT even in XP. I had a 9700Pro that had VRAM go bad and in 32bit color mode it would artifact on the DT, in 16bit mode it wouldn't.
 
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My 4200ti would do it in games then slowly i got a few dots on the bios. then on the windows desktop. This was over time. by the time it was doing it on the desktop. it was way to unstable to do anything 3d.

think of it this way. even a basic system with nothing running and a 4350 video card is using over 100 megabytes of video ram. Clearly XP will not use that much as it ran fine on cards with 4 megabytes on memory.

I would like have to say that depending on what portion of the memory is bad, maybe one card will mess up in the bios while another will not(luck of the draw, Some users have bad ram for years but never crash because they just use so little they then never touch that spot.). I know i have had cards that only showed artifacts in games and never on the XP desktop and bios. The only card I ever had with artifacts on the desktop of XP was far gone by that point.

This is why I recommend a test in a OS that is not artifacting. That would prove drivers or not in one shot. I am not saying drivers would never cause this because they can.
 
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Thanks for the quick replys guys, I really appreciate it. :)

Could you have a look at the edit I have made on the original post.

Thanks. :hello:
 
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Well that sucks, but at least the card is not to blame.

In all the years, I have never seen this.

For the hell of it, want to run a memory test in case windows 8 does something strange with memory?

I wonder if i can talk my friend into bringing his GTX 570 over here for some win8 testing :)
 
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Thanks. That would be very helpful. How would I do a memory test in Windows 8 considering I cannot boot into it using th GTX 570? Would it be any use if I did a memoy test as it stands using my onbard grahics and reporting te result?
 
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Works fine with Windows 7 and even plays games on max settings with no issues. Windows 8 falls over on the initial installation disk. If it is a drivers issue, it is at the lowest level ie Windows 8 installation disk as opposed to Windows 7.
 
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Thanks for the advice.

Just tried that and it didn't work, just messed up my resolution 🙁

I'm starting to lose hope...
 
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Thanks for the link.

Would you recommend re-installing 7 or holding out until an update is released? :S

Thanks again. 😛
 
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I have exactly the same problem as yours, it has me baffled.
 
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Yep. It's so annoying. I am surprised MS let this happen...
 
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I've even tried it on another P.C I have and the same problem, also on the first PC I installed 8 on if I disable my graphics card and use the basic on board one I don't have the problem, it seems to me if the graphics card is anyway decent 8 won't work. MS are going to have to solve this because I'm going to be looking for my money back as I can't use it. Oh one other thing I ran 8 in a virtual machine and it worked in that but that was only to test it.
 
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How long are you going to wait before you get a refund?
 
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if you still can't boot then just use 7 for now. personally i'm interested to upgrade my system with win 8 as well but seeing problem like this i will wait until the drivers matures a bit before making the jump
 
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I actually quite like Windows 8 to be honest. When it works -_-
 
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I was in contact with MS and they said I shouldn't be having this problem and I said tell me something I don't know, anyway I'll get a refund when I send them back the disk and they cancel the key.
 
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Honestly I hated to do this with Windows 8 but I was having so much network problems that I had to revert back to Windows 7. I tried different NIC's but all had the same problem with horrible disconnects from anything, games, teamspeak, etc.. every 10 seconds. I also determined it wasn't a network problem either since we ran it through $1000 Cisco switches and determined that no-one else at the event at the table were having problems.

When I switched back to Windows 7 all my problems disappeared. I really really really wanted to use Windows 8 but when it came down to it, its just not ready for primetime in my opinion.

I even really enjoyed metro and all the new stuff like taskmanager and quicker boot times.
 
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I think MS are going to have to sort this out soon, it doesn't bother me too much that I can't run 8 as 7 is a great O/S but TBH I still prefer XP to any other O/S simply because it uses so little resources and I never had a problem with it.
 
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^True but ram is so cheap these days that the performance you lose from the newer OS's is completely irrelevant. I have 16gb of ram in my machine because it only cost $59. XP 32bit can only use 3.2gb of that ram and if you switch to 64 bit xp its like shooting yourself in the foot because it was sooooooo bad compared to even Vista 64 bit.
 
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