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Reinstalling win10
A story in too many parts.
The PC was still crashing, after I reinstalled windows10 keeping only the person files. It turned out some things were still installed. Also the entire desktop was there. I thought the shortcuts for progrrams that were gone would be gone too, but they weren't. Are they considered personal files??? So I reinstalled windows10 keeping only the person files, AGAIN. Same result. This time I note that it paused for a full hour at 83%. -- So I reinstalled windows keeping nothing, booting from a flashdrive and it got to maybe 24% and crashed. "The installation was canceled. Any changes made to your cojmputer won't be saved. Windows cannot install required files. Make sue all files required for installation ae avaiable and restar the installation . Error code 0x800703ee" So I used the corresponding CD and it filled the screen with alternating vertical orange-brown bars and white bars and then it stopped. So I used the flashdrive while windows was running, (not easy since it had to refrain from crashing long enough for me to bring up a file manager, navigate to setup.exe and run it, and who knows how far in it can still crash, and I think it froze part way in. So for the second time I booted from the flashedrive and this time it worked. Brand new windows. Only two icons on the desktop. I installed only Firefox. Still crashed 3 times in the first 2 hours. (though sometimes it will stay on and let me use FF for hours at a time.) So maybe it was hardware and that question I asked you a few days ago was needed after all. Anyone who didn't post t here and has more ideas of how hardware can cause a BSOD (with at least 5, maybe 10 different errors cited), please reply to this thread. |
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micky wrote:
A story in too many parts. The PC was still crashing, after I reinstalled windows10 keeping only the person files. It turned out some things were still installed. Also the entire desktop was there. I thought the shortcuts for progrrams that were gone would be gone too, but they weren't. Are they considered personal files??? So I reinstalled windows10 keeping only the person files, AGAIN. Same result. This time I note that it paused for a full hour at 83%. -- So I reinstalled windows keeping nothing, booting from a flashdrive and it got to maybe 24% and crashed. "The installation was canceled. Any changes made to your cojmputer won't be saved. Windows cannot install required files. Make sue all files required for installation ae avaiable and restar the installation . Error code 0x800703ee" So I used the corresponding CD and it filled the screen with alternating vertical orange-brown bars and white bars and then it stopped. So I used the flashdrive while windows was running, (not easy since it had to refrain from crashing long enough for me to bring up a file manager, navigate to setup.exe and run it, and who knows how far in it can still crash, and I think it froze part way in. So for the second time I booted from the flashedrive and this time it worked. Brand new windows. Only two icons on the desktop. I installed only Firefox. Still crashed 3 times in the first 2 hours. (though sometimes it will stay on and let me use FF for hours at a time.) So maybe it was hardware and that question I asked you a few days ago was needed after all. Anyone who didn't post t here and has more ideas of how hardware can cause a BSOD (with at least 5, maybe 10 different errors cited), please reply to this thread. You can use the Reliability Monitor, to get the stop codes on the BSODs. In Settings, try typing Reliability and see if it can find the dialog for it, for you. Memtest and Prime95 are your friends. First you prove it's a computer, *then* you install an OS. It's a "pay me now or pay me later" hobby. Do it right the first time. Paul |
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On Sat, 08 Aug 2020 19:40:54 -0400, micky
wrote: A story in too many parts. The PC was still crashing, after I reinstalled windows10 keeping only the person files. It turned out some things were still installed. Also the entire desktop was there. I thought the shortcuts for progrrams that were gone would be gone too, but they weren't. Are they considered personal files??? So I reinstalled windows10 keeping only the person files, AGAIN. Same result. This time I note that it paused for a full hour at 83%. -- So I reinstalled windows keeping nothing, booting from a flashdrive and it got to maybe 24% and crashed. "The installation was canceled. Any changes made to your cojmputer won't be saved. Windows cannot install required files. Make sue all files required for installation ae avaiable and restar the installation . Error code 0x800703ee" So I used the corresponding CD and it filled the screen with alternating vertical orange-brown bars and white bars and then it stopped. So I used the flashdrive while windows was running, (not easy since it had to refrain from crashing long enough for me to bring up a file manager, navigate to setup.exe and run it, and who knows how far in it can still crash, and I think it froze part way in. So for the second time I booted from the flashedrive and this time it worked. Brand new windows. Only two icons on the desktop. I installed only Firefox. Still crashed 3 times in the first 2 hours. (though sometimes it will stay on and let me use FF for hours at a time.) So maybe it was hardware and that question I asked you a few days ago was needed after all. Anyone who didn't post t here and has more ideas of how hardware can cause a BSOD (with at least 5, maybe 10 different errors cited), please reply to this thread. Could it be a RAM problem? |
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On Sun, 23 Aug 2020 15:05:08 +1000, Lucifer
wrote: Brand new windows. Only two icons on the desktop. I installed only Firefox. Still crashed 3 times in the first 2 hours. (though sometimes it will stay on and let me use FF for hours at a time.) So maybe it was hardware and that question I asked you a few days ago was needed after all. Anyone who didn't post t here and has more ideas of how hardware can cause a BSOD (with at least 5, maybe 10 different errors cited), please reply to this thread. Could it be a RAM problem? The last time I had random crashes it turned out to be the power supply but ram would be easy to eliminate. |
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Peter Johnson wrote:
On Sun, 23 Aug 2020 15:05:08 +1000, Lucifer wrote: Brand new windows. Only two icons on the desktop. I installed only Firefox. Still crashed 3 times in the first 2 hours. (though sometimes it will stay on and let me use FF for hours at a time.) So maybe it was hardware and that question I asked you a few days ago was needed after all. Anyone who didn't post t here and has more ideas of how hardware can cause a BSOD (with at least 5, maybe 10 different errors cited), please reply to this thread. Could it be a RAM problem? The last time I had random crashes it turned out to be the power supply but ram would be easy to eliminate. I had a bad supply with leaking caps on +5V, and it was crashing either late in POST, or just after handoff to the OS. But since it had already emitted gray smoke days before that (a cute puff of smoke just at startup), I was expecting something to happen sooner or later. At the time, I couldn't figure out what kind of component would smoke like that without failing. It was the leaking caps releasing gray smoke. Paul |
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In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Sun, 23 Aug 2020 15:05:08 +1000, Lucifer
wrote: On Sat, 08 Aug 2020 19:40:54 -0400, micky wrote: A story in too many parts. The PC was still crashing, after I reinstalled windows10 keeping only the person files. It turned out some things were still installed. Also the entire desktop was there. I thought the shortcuts for progrrams that were gone would be gone too, but they weren't. Are they considered personal files??? So I reinstalled windows10 keeping only the person files, AGAIN. Same result. This time I note that it paused for a full hour at 83%. -- So I reinstalled windows keeping nothing, booting from a flashdrive and it got to maybe 24% and crashed. "The installation was canceled. Any changes made to your cojmputer won't be saved. Windows cannot install required files. Make sue all files required for installation ae avaiable and restar the installation . Error code 0x800703ee" So I used the corresponding CD and it filled the screen with alternating vertical orange-brown bars and white bars and then it stopped. So I used the flashdrive while windows was running, (not easy since it had to refrain from crashing long enough for me to bring up a file manager, navigate to setup.exe and run it, and who knows how far in it can still crash, and I think it froze part way in. So for the second time I booted from the flashedrive and this time it worked. Brand new windows. Only two icons on the desktop. I installed only Firefox. Still crashed 3 times in the first 2 hours. (though sometimes it will stay on and let me use FF for hours at a time.) So maybe it was hardware and that question I asked you a few days ago was needed after all. Anyone who didn't post t here and has more ideas of how hardware can cause a BSOD (with at least 5, maybe 10 different errors cited), please reply to this thread. Could it be a RAM problem? I ran Memtest88 for 14 hours with no errors. Haven't run Prime for some reason. But I've had it and I'm buying a new one. This one was built for Vista anyhow and I bought it use and paid iirc $150 plus more for 8gigs fo ram. Still not much compared to what other people spend. |
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On Mon, 24 Aug 2020 23:56:21 -0400, micky
wrote: In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Sun, 23 Aug 2020 15:05:08 +1000, Lucifer wrote: On Sat, 08 Aug 2020 19:40:54 -0400, micky wrote: A story in too many parts. The PC was still crashing, after I reinstalled windows10 keeping only the person files. It turned out some things were still installed. Also the entire desktop was there. I thought the shortcuts for progrrams that were gone would be gone too, but they weren't. Are they considered personal files??? So I reinstalled windows10 keeping only the person files, AGAIN. Same result. This time I note that it paused for a full hour at 83%. -- So I reinstalled windows keeping nothing, booting from a flashdrive and it got to maybe 24% and crashed. "The installation was canceled. Any changes made to your cojmputer won't be saved. Windows cannot install required files. Make sue all files required for installation ae avaiable and restar the installation . Error code 0x800703ee" So I used the corresponding CD and it filled the screen with alternating vertical orange-brown bars and white bars and then it stopped. So I used the flashdrive while windows was running, (not easy since it had to refrain from crashing long enough for me to bring up a file manager, navigate to setup.exe and run it, and who knows how far in it can still crash, and I think it froze part way in. So for the second time I booted from the flashedrive and this time it worked. Brand new windows. Only two icons on the desktop. I installed only Firefox. Still crashed 3 times in the first 2 hours. (though sometimes it will stay on and let me use FF for hours at a time.) So maybe it was hardware and that question I asked you a few days ago was needed after all. Anyone who didn't post t here and has more ideas of how hardware can cause a BSOD (with at least 5, maybe 10 different errors cited), please reply to this thread. Could it be a RAM problem? I ran Memtest88 for 14 hours with no errors. Haven't run Prime for some reason. But I've had it and I'm buying a new one. This one was built for Vista anyhow and I bought it use and paid iirc $150 plus more for 8gigs fo ram. Still not much compared to what other people spend. I've had a few cases where a faulty power supply can cause problems you might not associate with a power supply. |
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