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malberttoo
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Well long story short, my SP3 for the moment is effectively bricked. The display driver was incompatible when I upgraded to the first Win10 build. After help from you guys here I figured that part out, went into safe mode and uninstalled the intel driver and then all was well, except I was now using the basic video driver and had no brightness control, graphics was a little choppy, etc. Then when it updated to 9879, it re-installed the Intel driver again, and the whole problem started over. This time I said forget it, and did a full reset, which actually took me back to 9841 (or whatever the original build number was.
This build then again sucked down the Intel driver, and even with a clean install, was still incompatible with the driver and made desktop access almost impossible. So I broke out a Win8.1 bootable USB drive so that I could take my machine back to 8.1, and discovered that the EUFI bits must be scrambled now, because I can no longer boot to the recovery environment. I get a blue screen that at first complained of "The digital signal for this file couldn't be verified, 0xc0000428". Trying to boot from USB got me a black error screen complaining that "file:\windows\system32\winload.efi" couldn't load. By then it was almost midnight and I had already spent probably 10 hours trying to make the whole thing happy.
I called Surface support this morning expecting to do a replacement, but he pointed me toward a USB restore image first. I asked if the image will work even if the EUFI or boot stuff is messed up, and he said the only time he's seen it not work was when the USB port itself was hosed.
Downloading it now, we shall see.
This build then again sucked down the Intel driver, and even with a clean install, was still incompatible with the driver and made desktop access almost impossible. So I broke out a Win8.1 bootable USB drive so that I could take my machine back to 8.1, and discovered that the EUFI bits must be scrambled now, because I can no longer boot to the recovery environment. I get a blue screen that at first complained of "The digital signal for this file couldn't be verified, 0xc0000428". Trying to boot from USB got me a black error screen complaining that "file:\windows\system32\winload.efi" couldn't load. By then it was almost midnight and I had already spent probably 10 hours trying to make the whole thing happy.
I called Surface support this morning expecting to do a replacement, but he pointed me toward a USB restore image first. I asked if the image will work even if the EUFI or boot stuff is messed up, and he said the only time he's seen it not work was when the USB port itself was hosed.
Downloading it now, we shall see.
