Yet another blackscreen problem

[MrNamegame]

Hello there! I'm having issues with two Dell Optiplex 745 SFF machines. Purchased them a little while with Windows 8.1 on them, they both ran fine and were confirmed as legitimate copies. Everything seemed fine when I went to upgrade them to Windows 10 (before the end of free upgrade), and now they both have encountered the black screen of death. This happens just before Windows installs the graphics driver, which may have something to do with it, but I am not quite sure.

The worst drawback here is that I cannot access the repair options at all. It's another one of those computers that just runs too fast to do that with and I don't really know what to do. I've tried starting it from the Windows 10 installation flash drive I made which has both 32 and 64 bit Windows 10 Professional installers on it (the last one before free upgrade came out), but I am still unable to get any cooperation. Any way I can still barge my way into the OS' repair screen?

 

[Colif]

what happens when you try to boot off the installer?

did you do this to add it to boot order:

Attach your device, reboot, enter the bios and see if USB shows in list.

if installer boots, on second screen of installer - after language choices - select repair this PC, not install
choose troubleshoot
choose advanced
choose start up repair - this scans start up and may fix problem - will also ask for logon info

if that doesn't work, boot from installer again and follow same steps as above until you reach troubleshoot/advanced
from here, select start up options
choose one of the three safe mode options - it doesn't matter which
pc will restart and should load safe mode - you don't have to do anything here, just restart PC. Sometimes going to safe mode fixes this.

If you need more help, just whistle

 

[MrNamegame]

what happens when you try to boot off the installer?

did you do this to add it to boot order:

Attach your device, reboot, enter the bios and see if USB shows in list.

if installer boots, on second screen of installer - after language choices - select repair this PC, not install
choose troubleshoot
choose advanced
choose start up repair - this scans start up and may fix problem - will also ask for logon info

if that doesn't work, boot from installer again and follow same steps as above until you reach troubleshoot/advanced
from here, select start up options
choose one of the three safe mode options - it doesn't matter which
pc will restart and should load safe mode - you don't have to do anything here, just restart PC. Sometimes going to safe mode fixes this.

If you need more help, just whistle

Well, I fixed it now. Turns out ClassicUI as well as upgrading to 10 straight from 8 rather than 8.1 breaks things.

After getting a 32 and 64 bit combo installer onto a flash drive, I used the repair my computer function to tell the OS to revert back to 8 and then decided to stick with it as ClassicUI works nicely on it. Everything's good now, just felt frustrated with these machines, lmao

Thank you anyways though!