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I would restore your Windows 7 system from backup, presuming you have one to work with.
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I would restore your Windows 7 system from backup, presuming you have one to work with.

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Once you restored your PC back to Windows 7, try running below which will guide you whether your PC is capable of supporting Windows 8 or not?<br />
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<a href="http://windows.microsoft.com/en-IN/windows-8/upgrade-to-windows-8" rel="ugc">http://windows.microsoft.com/en-IN/windows-8/upgrade-to-windows-8</a>
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Once you restored your PC back to Windows 7, try running below which will guide you whether your PC is capable of supporting Windows 8 or not?

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-IN/windows-8/upgrade-to-windows-8 [http://windows.microsoft.com/en-IN/windows-8/upgrade-to-windows-8]

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If the outcome was always different, it might even be hardware being faulty. If that did never show while on win7, it's rather unlikely, but not impossible.<br />
Please check your RAM using the free test boot cd from here: <a href="http://www.memtest86.com/download.html" rel="ugc">http://www.memtest86.com/download.html</a><br />
If one pass did not reveal any error, restart your machine and try to install win7 and see if that still works.
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If the outcome was always different, it might even be hardware being faulty. If that did never show while on win7, it's rather unlikely, but not impossible.
Please check your RAM using the free test boot cd from here: http://www.memtest86.com/download.html [http://www.memtest86.com/download.html]
If one pass did not reveal any error, restart your machine and try to install win7 and see if that still works.

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Just one more thing.... its not a windows disc issue.<br />
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Ded9
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Just one more thing.... its not a windows disc issue.


Ded9

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So you updated the driver and it went away?
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So you updated the driver and it went away?

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I have a PC that was running windows 7 ultimate and I tried to up grade to 8... It wouldn't let me upgrade so I did a fresh install - many times... Sometimes its about to come up and then just a black screen... I used 4 different disks and nothing works... I did finally got up once and entered in all the username etc but after reboot back to the spinning dots and back to it going to the black screen... HELP
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I have a PC that was running windows 7 ultimate and I tried to up grade to 8... It wouldn't let me upgrade so I did a fresh install - many times... Sometimes its about to come up and then just a black screen... I used 4 different disks and nothing works... I did finally got up once and entered in all the username etc but after reboot back to the spinning dots and back to it going to the black screen... HELP

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