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My brand new Windows 8.1 computer is dead and only shows a cursor on black screen when booting. So I need to boot into safe mode.
I thought pressing F8 would do the trick. Apparently my computer is using UEFI BIOS, and there seems to be no way of interupting the boot process with keystrokes.
So, is it possible to do anything with this computer to recover?
2You are suppose to get the Windows 8 boot menu after 3 failed attempts to start Windows 8. I am going to guess you don't have a Windows 8.1 Recovery Disk and/or Installation Disk. – Ramhound – 2014-01-17T15:17:06.307
@Ramhound: No these things nowadays not even have optical drives :( The boot has failed more than 3 times without getting a menu. – Gruber – 2014-01-17T16:02:31.137