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Finally... => Life Advice => Topic started by: Jack_Bread on November 18, 2013, 12:17:48 am

Title: Reinstalled Windows, not sure what I have to get
Post by: Jack_Bread on November 18, 2013, 12:17:48 am

So my laptop broke recently, where it couldn't startup. Not even in safemode. I mentioned this in the sad thread a few days ago:

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Quote from: Jack_Bread on November 15, 2013, 07:39:26 am

Well, not really but it won't start now.
It started when my friends wanted me to play League, but it kept crashing, so I told them no. They told me to restart it, but I didn't want to. Bit after a but of thinking, I decided too do it anyway.
After it's really long shutdown phase, I checked back to find it on startup repair. I let it gl and it couldn't find anything to fix. I restarted my computer and it was on startup repair AGAIN. I let it run to no avail. Then again.
I tried to run it in safe mode, but it crashed. I tried to run it again, but I mistyped somewhere and came to a command promote screen asking about partitions. It seemed to loop around on itself, so I hard rebooted my laptop and bow it says it's completely borked and wants my windows install disk.
That mysteriously vanished and the only other disks I've got is for Vista and Win8. So I'm just going to bring it somewhere and hope I can find someone who can install Win7 for me for cheap.
This really sucks.
I should also mention that I tried too restore a backup but it couldn't find them on my other drive...

Anyway, I finally got it working. I got a copy of Windows 7 64-bit and burned it to a CD. Then I installed it after a bit of trouble.
I cleared 3 partitions of my drive, one of which was the system, which might've been a bad idea to clear, but I was desperate at that point because of the problems I was having installing Windows.
My laptop is unable to use any 3d related things and I'm not sure what I'm supposed to get to fix that.
I weakly googled this problem and was told to get Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor and it says that my computer just can't support Windows Aero.
I'm using an ASUS K55N laptop of some form. I've looked at the drivers on ASUS' website, but I don't know which of those I need to get.

Title: Re: Reinstalled Windows, not sure what I have to get
Post by: Telgin on November 18, 2013, 12:25:37 am

Did the computer come with Windows 7 or Windows 8?  Looking at their site, I see they mention a VGA driver under their Windows 8 section but don't list it for download under it or for Windows 7.

At this point, you can try going to NVIDIA's website and see if they have some sort of detection utility to detect your card and the driver it needs.  Sometimes the driver from AMD or NVIDIA works instead of the one provided by the manufacturer.

Title: Re: Reinstalled Windows, not sure what I have to get
Post by: Jack_Bread on November 18, 2013, 12:32:33 am

It came with Windows 7.
I'll go check that out now.
EDIT: I checked my laptop's graphics card from where I got it because it wasn't being detected properly by anything. After finding out it was an AMD Radeon, I went to AMD to their autodetector. It downloaded something, but it wouldn't work because I apparently didn't have a 64 bit computer. ???
Anyway, I went to ASUS' website and found their AMD driver and downloaded and installed that. It seems to work now. Thanks!