Cosmic Railgun

After further investigation it seems this would be the reason, it looks like the way apps are licensed changed recently

We're based in Canada which is a supported country. Our organization doesn't use a VPN

I work for an organization that is looking to roll out Minecraft to some managed chromebooks, which in theory have the ability to run it. However when I go to add Minecraft to the list of allowed Play Store apps, it will not let me. It seems to let me allow any other app except Minecraft. Does anyone know why this might be? Here is a video clip showing the issue

Just opened up the laptop to unplug the hard drive, just noticed the battery is actually swelling in a few places, seems like this could be a combo effort

No I didn't, but this is a good idea

But wouldnt that prevent it from booting linux than?

Yeah that's certainly what it seems like, kinda weird that it would boot initially though and that my other hardware tester came back clean, I'll run memtest on it though just for kicks, will post the results

So i'm working on this Toshiba laptop and I can't seem to get it to boot into any kind of windows. It won't boot into windows on its own hard drive, it also won't boot into windows on a USB key or a DVD. I've tried Windows 10, 8, and 7. It can see the install disks fine but once it starts to try and boot to them I get the loading wheel for a second of two than the computer just cuts power and restarts. The weird part is it boots to my linux key just fine. I already reflashed the bios and have tried disabling secure boot and uefi etc etc. I ran a bootable hardware testing tool (which strangely enough is windows based) and everything checks out. I've tried different USB ports and I even opened up the laptop and re-seated the ram and unplugged the battery to power cycle it. The weirdest part is when I first got the laptop yesterday it would turn on and boot to install keys no problem. It was after I ran wpeutil reboot in command prompt that this issue started occurring. But to my knowledge that shouldn't cause an infinite boot loop across multiple install disks.

Yeah idk ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ it started working as soon as I removed it, general trouble shooting procedure would suggest that this dictates a solution

Looks like removing the network card finally got it to work. It will be interesting to see if this works on future computers with this issue

Windows installs perfectly fine, but when it tries to enter setup (where Cortana starts talking to you) it just sits at a black screen

It's known good hardware, as in brand new hard drive. And I've remade the installer many times, I've also used one sent directly from Microsoft (although it's slightly outdated by today's standards). Anyhow, the installers have always worked on other computers. Also I know a fresh install is always the best, but in this case it might be the only option

I work as a repair tech and one issue I've seen time and time again is when needing to reinstall Windows 10 on a customer's computer, sometimes after the install and the computer reboots to open the initial setup; the computer will just sit at a black screen. The monitor will be lit up but nothing will ever open. This happens frequently on older desktops designed to run Windows 7, all with known good hardware that was running windows moments earlier. Has anyone come across a fix for this? My only thought is it could be a bad graphics driver or something. Usually the work-around I found that works is using another computer to install and setup the OS and than just moving the hard drive back to the original host pc. Maybe I should just have a hard drive with a fresh install that I can clone from lol

I second this, even got a copy of Windows Server 2016 for like $15

Yes everything you have there will work perfectly, but just so you know you could just upgrade your CPU to the 6700 you don’t need to upgrade everything