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BSOD with 0xb4
Hi guys. Using a desktop with Windows 7 Professional 4gb ram. Had no problems until today when I tried to switch it on and it took a really long time to get to the Windows Starting screen, and then it checked the disks for consistency. When it restarted, it went to this BSOD with the message, " The video driver failed to initialize".
Then it went to Startup repair, which couldnt repair the problem. And then I decided to use the onboard graphics instead of the gfx card, and I could boot into Windows! However, I did the mistake of going to device manager, where they said there was some problem with the adapter, and click to restart the computer, which I did, and I havent been able to boot back into Windows since, with the same error message coming up.
I've tried booting into safe mode and all, and it doesn't work,so I'm not sure how to collect the dump messages. Is there any way to solve this without doing a clean install? I was thinking I could transfer some important files to another place using a hard disk enclosure, and then clean install, but thats a last resort. Also, is it a sign my hard disk could be failing? Really hope you guys can help. Thanks!