So this whole day has been a nightmare of more things breaking after trying to fix something.
I had been attempting to get GEforce Experience to recognize the graphics card(just got it detected by the system again after a system clean-up program seemingly wiped it from my system).
Found a solution online(http/www.overclock.net/t/1150443/how-to-remove-your-nvidia-gpu-drivers-new-2016) after needing to restart a couple time to finish uninstalling it suddenly crashes to a blue screen with a long-ish error message I couldn't read(it wasn't DXGKRNL_FATAL_VIDEO_ERROR, though I get that anytime I remove the HDMI cord while it's on)I had only finished the remove drivers portion of the guide.
Now it only boots black, it will sometimes show the Alienware logo and sound-system name at boot like it should, but then its just black, if I move my cursor it will temporarily appear then leave again if left idle.
F8 boot menu doesn't seem to work either.
TL;DR: Uninstalled NVIDIA, boots black with logo and white-cursor.
Specs: Alienware M17x (R4 I believe)
Processor: Intel Inside core i7
Ram: 8Gb
Video Card: Geforce GTX 860m
If any other info is needed please let me know, this laptop is my baby and one of the few joys I can call my own, I appreciate any help given.
I had been attempting to get GEforce Experience to recognize the graphics card(just got it detected by the system again after a system clean-up program seemingly wiped it from my system).
Found a solution online(http/www.overclock.net/t/1150443/how-to-remove-your-nvidia-gpu-drivers-new-2016) after needing to restart a couple time to finish uninstalling it suddenly crashes to a blue screen with a long-ish error message I couldn't read(it wasn't DXGKRNL_FATAL_VIDEO_ERROR, though I get that anytime I remove the HDMI cord while it's on)I had only finished the remove drivers portion of the guide.
Now it only boots black, it will sometimes show the Alienware logo and sound-system name at boot like it should, but then its just black, if I move my cursor it will temporarily appear then leave again if left idle.
F8 boot menu doesn't seem to work either.
TL;DR: Uninstalled NVIDIA, boots black with logo and white-cursor.
Specs: Alienware M17x (R4 I believe)
Processor: Intel Inside core i7
Ram: 8Gb
Video Card: Geforce GTX 860m
If any other info is needed please let me know, this laptop is my baby and one of the few joys I can call my own, I appreciate any help given.