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Attempt to update drivers caused possibly fatal system crash
I was updating the drivers on my ASUS ROG G75 using Iobit's Driver Booster 2. It said I had several drivers out of date so I selected all of them and left the machine to run while I ran some cleaning and maintenance programs in the background (Iobit Advanced System Care 7 and Privazer). I didn't think this was an issue because the laptop has more than enough power to run all those at the same time but the driver update got to 70% and hung there for 15 minutes. I figured something was screwy and that the computer would simply not install the fully updated drivers and so I closed all programs and rebooted the laptop to complete installation of the successfully downloaded drivers and now, now I have nothing.
By nothing, I mean just exactly that. I hit the power button, I see the cursor and hear the DVD drive spin up and that is it. No error codes, no choices for booting into Safe Mode, nothing. I'm not even sure it booted far enough for me to get into the BIOS! I've been poking around the net trying to find a program that will allow me to boot into a rescue disc and perhaps attempt to repair the MBR/ntloader but I am either not using the right keywords or I'm screwed because I can't find what I'm looking for. I found Paragon's Rescue Kit 14 but either I didn't follow the instructions correctly or my laptop isn't even searching for bootable media because it is too far gone.
I do have such a program as I am looking for but I recently moved and have absolutely no idea where that CD is. I only remember that it too is a Paragon product but not the one I've been trying to use. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated and please let me know if there is any other information you need that would be useful, thanks.
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I just tried to start it up and get into the BIOS and got nowhere. This is getting to be very NOT COOL
Last edited by Whisperss; 13 Nov 2014 at 00:48. Reason: More information