Stop restarting!

[Cramig88]

Yep, just as the title says, stop restarting!

issue is, the darn server running windows 11 \ plex, each time it restarts for some bleeping reason the "speedstep" technology is disabled - so im at 500mhz per core.  I think this has to do with some overclocking SOFTWARE i installed awhile ago, but since then ive given up on trying to fix it.  I even did a clean install of windows from the dell whatever rescue thing.  still happens!  so yeah, scratch trying anymore, whatever.

upgraded it to a intel core ultra 7 265kf, overkill for a dell but whatever.  idk if it was the software or the cpu itself that caused the issue.  but theres a cooler master \ better than stock heatsink on it now - so since its wider than the case, it dont got the side panel on.  no biggie.  
not pretty BUT, with the stupid issue i have, shutdown, pull power and bios battery, start it up again.  thats my solution.

problem?  darn thing restarts randomly.  so it goes back to 500mhz.  since i dont have a monitor connected to it (eh i could, sometimes i do it isnt preferable), when i RDP to the thing i say "what the fudge!!! you restarted again!"
im guessing its due to windows updates, im used to using windows datacenter or otherwise.  maybe driver updates - but i disabled all that "dell\otherwise" stuff through services.msc, msconfig and so on.

so this is kinda a twofold issue, both are solutions

 

A) any ideas on whats causing the bios to flip back to speedstep turning off, each reboot?

B) how the crap can i stop the pc from restarting from updates entirely?  its obv not happy with reboots so lets eliminate them if possible.  i should see an uptime of 14+ days in taskman, not .5mhz in coreTemp and say "AHHHHH!!!!!"

lol, thanks

[Timme]

What's the hardware on the PC, or how much of it is the DELLs proprietary crap?

Use BCUninstaller to uninstall everything you don't need/recognize, with these filtering options

 

Also, How to view and analyze logs with Windows Event Viewer

[Biohazard777]

1 hour ago, Cramig88 said:

problem?  darn thing restarts randomly.  so it goes back to 500mhz.  since i dont have a monitor connected to it (eh i could, sometimes i do it isnt preferable), when i RDP to the thing i say "what the fudge!!! you restarted again!"

How about a dummy HDMI?
And maybe a USB mouse jiggler.

I know, very roundabout & hacky way... but cheap, and should get the job done.

[Mark Kaine]

3 hours ago, Cramig88 said:

how the crap can i stop the pc from restarting from updates entirely?

 

I know your pain

https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil

 

Spoiler

(best 10 bucks i ever spent because I'm too stupid to "compile" anything and I needed it to work offline because the next "killer update" was looming imminently) 

 

[Timme]

13 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

 

I know your pain

https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil

 

  Reveal hidden contents

(best 10 bucks i ever spent because I'm too stupid to "compile" anything and I needed it to work offline because the next "killer update" was looming imminently) 

 

how tf have I never seen this gem mentioned before?

[Mark Kaine]

2 hours ago, Timme said:

how tf have I never seen this gem mentioned before?

I honestly always thought it's kind of a scam and he's not very popular around here cause folks "bricked" their windows installs probably using some of the "experimental" options in his tool (which he explicitly says *not* to use at any chance)

But then I actually watched a newer video about it and he was very clear about the options, quick and easy too so I kinda thought "eh it probably just works as he says" then I learned it's actually free you just have to copy the command line prompt - which I then figured I couldn't use because of the aforementioned Microsoft update I already know would eff up my windows 11 install irrecoverably (not necessarily straight up, but figuratively speaking) so then I dl the executable installed it and *only* turned off updates, done.  

Works just like sledgehammer did on win 10, a two seconds job lol.

 

Then soon after I saw this video and yes I was "surprised" but also thought that's probably the most comprehensive Linux/gaming video I've seen, like no bs straight to the point...

 

I really want his install it looks so sleek!  

 

(Like I get it, he only has a window manager, but idk how to do that ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯)

[Timme]

1 hour ago, Mark Kaine said:

I honestly always thought it's kind of a scam and he's not very popular around here cause folks "bricked" their windows installs probably using some of the "experimental" options in his tool (which he explicitly says *not* to use at any chance)

But then I actually watched a newer video about it and he was very clear about the options, quick and easy too so I kinda thought "eh it probably just works as he says" then I learned it's actually free you just have to copy the command line prompt - which I then figured I couldn't use because of the aforementioned Microsoft update I already know would eff up my windows 11 install irrecoverably (not necessarily straight up, but figuratively speaking) so then I dl the executable installed it and *only* turned off updates, done.  

Works just like sledgehammer did on win 10, a two seconds job lol.

 

Then soon after I saw this video and yes I was "surprised" but also thought that's probably the most comprehensive Linux/gaming video I've seen, like no bs straight to the point...

 

I really want his install it looks so sleek!  

 

(Like I get it, he only has a window manager, but idk how to do that ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯)

There are a couple of 'removal/disable'options that may mess up someone's OS, but overall it is super clean and fast. And it's a single PowerShell prompt! Wizardry!