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I think yesterday's updates destroyed my computer. HELP
Hey guys. Theres these 2 updates that installed themselves on my PC yesterday night while I was shutting down. Today they would refuse to go past 0% at the "Configuring Windows Updates" stage. First time I shut off my PC, and restarted, it did the same thing but eventually gave up and let me log in.
This was also the day I was switching to a new GPU, from nVidia to ATI. I forgot to uninstall my nVidia drivers before the switch so when I was unable to install the ATI drivers or for some reason uninstall the nVidia drivers through the control panel (don't know why, maybe because my nVidia card wasnt in), I decided to use driver sweeper to remove nVidia display driver, chipset driver, and PhysX forcefully. I dont think that was a good idea, but I dont know if that was the problem.
After I did the sweeper thing I was prompted to restart. Now the thing starts loading windows, and when the logo starts to fly in, about a second in it freezes and restarts. When I tried to put in my GTX 260 again, I was able to catch a brief blue screen just before it restarts: http://i54.tinypic.com/3013vy9.jpg
Also if you want more details please check out this thread I made at WindowsBBS:
The saddest part of it all is that I cant use System Restore. I disabled it a long time ago to save space on C. Bad mistake. Never thought it'd get me.
I've been fighting this thing for the whole day now and I'm exhausted. I think I'm going to give up for now and try to do some schoolwork before going to sleep (tomorrow is NOT going to be a good day). What I was curious about is whether it's possible to somehow uninstall or remove the two faulty windows updates that I think caused this (Im pretty sure they started with KB29 and KB34). Or any other ideas, I don't know. Rewriting boot sector or something, I tried the /Fix thing but maybe I should rebuild it completely (saw it somewhere else on this forum). I honestly don't know what to do. The lack of system restore makes this a lot more complicated.
I dont want to reformat - honestly - it's like my worst fear. So please, I need some help. Thank you.