Thread: Me computer keeps crashing. -_-

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Originally Posted by Topper

reinstall windows 7

Cheers. I didn't install it in the first place, IIRC the PC came from Edith's office around 5-6 years ago.

110% the copy of Win 7 is well bodgy.

Downloading Win 10 from a torrent to USB now.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Did you do anything recently? New software, drivers, Windows Update?

You could try going back to a previous Restore Point.

Nope, nothing like that, never heard of a restore point so it wouldn't have one of those.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

But better to fuck it off and install Windows 10, it has the resources.

Yeah, gonna give it some of that.


Now just a matter of torrenting it and installing it.

Originally Posted by Edmond

Nope, nothing like that, never heard of a restore point so it wouldn't have one of those.

Restore points are great and ...

By default, Windows will automatically create system restore point when new software is installed, when new Windows updates installed, and when a driver is installed. Besides, Windows 7 will create a system restore point automatically if no other restore points exist in 7 days.27 Dec 2021

Google "when are restore points created on windows 7"

Originally Posted by David48atTD

Google "when are restore points created on windows 7"

Naaaaaa.



Windows 10 all the way!


Move on from like, last millennium, innit.

Originally Posted by Edmond

Still the same.

Its not, its cooler now.

Originally Posted by Edmond

Is this good or bad?

more dust on that heatsink than in in your wallet

a trimmed down 1 inch paintbrush is a good dust remover - so open your wallet and dig in deep to clean all the corners

if the fan is not running and the heat sink is that full of dust then it is very likely why your CPU is telling windows to get fcuked

Originally Posted by PlanK

You don't need to torrent it, you can get a genuine iso from Micro$oft.

I already pointed this out to him and even provided the link. He seems a bit thick.

Stealing something will always be more fun.

Originally Posted by Edmond

^ My thoughts too.


It's actually for the kid who's now into Scratch and Python, and if they're a chip off the old block will start smashing it when a line of coding doesn't work. Will get a kick out of having their own PC and will hopefully be glued to it in the evenings and not annoying me.


How hard is installing a torrented Win 10?


Or a preferable 1st step of somehow finding out what the issue is?

Why do you need a torrent ? cant you just download it legit ?

Originally Posted by PlanK

Activation key is the problem

only if you want a background and find the text in the bottom right hand corner annoying

Originally Posted by baldrick

only if you want a background and find the text in the bottom right hand corner annoying

Apparently can change the background easily in Win 10 without activation, unlike Win 7.


Not that it matters.





Did the legit one from the MS website, and got this after updating. :/




Any diagnosis?

Originally Posted by Edmond

Any diagnosis?

Fix: Windows Setup Error 0xC1900101 - 0x40017 - Appuals.com

Goodluck!

Thank you kindly sir.

Have you tried taking it to a local temple?

Start with the BIOS, because if that isn't compatible you're probably fucked and might as well install Linux.

Is this a proper make/model or a put together PoS?

It's got Acer Veriton on it, so will run with that.

To maintain the system integrity this may help

www.spunkguardsareus.ie

Originally Posted by Edmond

It's got Acer Veriton on it, so will run with that.

Look on the label for a model number and google "Acer Veriton xxxxx BIOS update" or the like.

Thank you kindly sir, shall do.

if the cpu fan is not running it really does not matter that the heatsink is clean - air need to be moving through the heatsink for the heat to be dissipated

^ The CPU fan is always working, and man is it clean!


Instead of getting a whole new setup, would I be correct in guessing that getting a new CPU and SSD (and installing Win 10) would almost defo solve all issues?

The 12gb Ram, graphics card etc etc all seem to be working perfectly, bit of a shame to pickup the whole unit and dump it into the blackhole of our storeroom, never to be seen by human eyes again.

My windows 10 became unstable in Thailand after an update and the machine kept crashing after a few minutes. Following a restart it was stable. Happened every morning and hacked me off and I thought it was because I didn't have a stable Internet connection.

Anyway, back in Germany, stable Internet and upgraded to Windows 11 making everything stable again...until another update caused it to go unstable and crash after 15-20 minutes every time. I traced this to the hp hotkey uwp service gobbling up my cpu and ram on a runaway mission to destruction. Win11 doesn't make access to services as easy as previous windows, you need to know which file to run but switching it to delayed start fixed the problem. Checking my device, the service doesn't appear to be used any longer so I disabled it. Everything fine now.

Windows really does get me angry but I'm not paying inflated prices for a mac pro. My problem looks to be specific to hp zbooks.

^ Without wanting to go off topic, switching to Chiangmai-Linux-Noon might be an option.

For me personally I'm far too old to be learning new tricks like that.

^ I have another laptop running Linux and several other os as virtual machines. It is 10 years old and has run without any major problems. The problem is I can't run my nikon app on Linux, only Windows or apple. I use the nikon app to make in camera settings to raw files.