I don't get it, but I shut my laptop a bit harder than I should have (I was frustrated), and a couple minutes later when I opened it back up, it had turned off, and upon rebooting it, the screen would remain black after the Windows splash screen. I am running Windows 8, no problems like this before. After a couple reboots (and an attempt to shift+f8 into safe mode..oh, wait, Windows 8 sucks), it finally brought up a BSOD saying CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED... self-rebooted, came back around and this time said something about kmode exception handled...yadayada. Not sure. It then went into the Windows 8 "I'll fix it for you" mode, which did no good, then upon another restart, it went through scanning and repairing drive on the splash screen. That took a while, and has no left me with a BSOD reboot cycle. There's only a split second it flashes to the BSOD, so I can't tell what it's saying this time, then it reboots. I've spent probably 15 minutes mashing shift+f8, and I don't think I believe any BS about that taking you into safe mode with Windows 8. If I hit F2 to go into the BIOS, I see under the SATA thing that my hard drive and disc drive are still listed... someone said to check for that in this case to determine that those were still showing up. My greatest fear is wiping my hard drive, yada yada.

Oh, and of course I didn't get any kind of Windows 8 disk or anything like that with my laptop, so I can't boot it up into the repair mode with that either.

So, I'm stumped. Will I just have to take it to someone, or is there a fix for this?

I appreciate all help.