Windows 10 crashes at start up on intel gigabyte mobo

[Elite14]

My brother's pc is currently running Windows 8.1 and it crashes a lot, mainly the display driver. So he wanted to upgrade to win 10 but every time I try it crashes right before the loading dots appear and then restarts. Now I'm doing a clean install of windows 10 enterprise on a separate hdd so he can try it out and see if he want to permanently upgrade. The things I've tried, booting from a usb that works (I know this because I have tested it in another pc) in both 3.0 and 2.0 usb ports, installing win 10 on the same hdd but on a different intel pc successfully then putting the hdd back in the desktop, tried to disable CSM support but after a save and restart it turns back on, different usb drives, looking through the entire bios for some option that would affect it, I tried to update the bios but I can't figure that out and searching the internet does not help. I built the desktop myself a year ago and I know a good amount about computers and I have fix a few so I know what I'm doing but I can't figure this one out. I have also tried to google it but I can find anything. If some one can help me figure this out I would greatly appreciate it and so would my brother.  

 

specs:

intel pentium g3250

gigabyte b85m-ds3h

4gb ram

amd hd 7790 asus

 

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[Arty]

You have a enterprise key or cracking it?

 

and don't force the upgrade just wait.

[Master Disaster]

Your GPU doesn't have UEFI GOP support so you won't be able to disable CSM.

Your gonna have to reinstall on the actual machine as swapping from a UEFI system to a legacy one is just not possible AFAIK.

I can tell you from personal experience that my Gigabyte board won't legacy install unless I unplug all my other hard drives and just have my Windows drive and DVD drive connected. On top of that you must kill the drive entirely (so its raw and unformatted) so it can be formatted in MBR.

If it won't boot from USB then try it from a DVD instead.

[Elite14]

Your GPU doesn't have UEFI GOP support so you won't be able to disable CSM.

Your gonna have to reinstall on the actual machine as swapping from a UEFI system to a legacy one is just not possible AFAIK.

I can tell you from personal experience that my Gigabyte board won't legacy install unless I unplug all my other hard drives and just have my Windows drive and DVD drive connected. On top of that you must kill the drive entirely (so its raw and unformatted) so it can be formatted in MBR.

If it won't boot from USB then try it from a DVD instead.

1. good to know

 

2. I'm pretty sure my old dell latitude E6410 does not have a UEFI bios and that is the machine I installed windows on, and the hard drive swap should work because I have done It before

 

3. the hard drive had windows 7 on it then windows 10 reformatted it when I installed it on the hard drive

 

4. but it can boot from the usb that is how I installed win 8.1 on there

 

to be clear I have tried other versions of windows 10 and those don't work, the pc should be able to boot windows 10 with out a hdd but it does not. It will not boot any thing that is windows 10 if the make sense and I don't know why.

[shypin]

on some pentium cpus you have to disable a core in bios, and then enable it after installation

[techguru]

1. good to know

 

2. I'm pretty sure my old dell latitude E6410 does not have a UEFI bios and that is the machine I installed windows on, and the hard drive swap should work because I have done It before

 

3. the hard drive had windows 7 on it then windows 10 reformatted it when I installed it on the hard drive

 

4. but it can boot from the usb that is how I installed win 8.1 on there

 

to be clear I have tried other versions of windows 10 and those don't work, the pc should be able to boot windows 10 with out a hdd but it does not. It will not boot any thing that is windows 10 if the make sense and I don't know why.

install windows 7

then just upgrade to 10...

you might need to clean the hdd of its formating..and partitions

 

the pc should boot from usb if you use rufus in csm mode....or mbr mode

 

windows 10 likes gpt tho

[Elite14]

on some pentium cpus you have to disable a core in bios, and then enable it after instal

so I disabled one core and it work on the hdd that had win 10 but as soon as both core's where running it crashes any ideas??

[shypin]

so I disabled one core and it work on the hdd that had win 10 but as soon as both core's where running it crashes any ideas??

its just a weird bug

you might have to wait for a fix from microsoft

[Elite14]

its just a weird bug

you might have to wait for a fix from microsoft

great   well thanks for the help

If anyone else has a solution please let me know

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

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[techguru]

great   well thanks for the help

If anyone else has a solution please let me know

update the bios

[Elite14]

update the bios

It is the latest version, it seams to be a problem with a os update

http://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=441&PN=1&title=kb3064209-breaks-the-g3258

so I guess I'll have to wait for MS or Intel to fix it

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

great   well thanks for the help

If anyone else has a solution please let me know

I switched out my Nvidia Card to an older AMD card I had laying around just to get it to boot into safe mode with generic video drivers. Changed the boot options to boot straight into safe mode though System Configuration. Shutted her down and switched back to my Nvidia card, booted into safe mode and installed the latest stable Windows 10 GeForce driver. Switched back the boot options, restart, and is now stable. (Stable being it doesn't crash, flicker, or artifacts. But still having problems with apps not launching). 

 

If you're on a laptop, I still went into safe mode but this time disabling the Nvidia Card and uninstalling the installed intel driver seemed to sort every thing out.