Computer Booting

[Squish4058]

I would assume that's drivers. Try doing a clean install and only installing what you need for 1 week. Like for me that's chrome and steam. Don't install drivers or anything until you confirm the pc works without them

[legoboy3322]

On 9/7/2016 at 5:13 AM, kris2340k said:

I would assume that's drivers. Try doing a clean install and only installing what you need for 1 week. Like for me that's chrome and steam. Don't install drivers or anything until you confirm the pc works without them

 

I'll do that, and by only the essentials, do you mean steam with games?

[Squish4058]

19 hours ago, legoboy3322 said:

I'll do that, and by only the essentials, do you mean steam with games?

games should be fine

[legoboy3322]

On 9/10/2016 at 3:35 PM, kris2340k said:

games should be fine

I just reset my computer and I'm assuming that its ok to instal the display drivers (Windows isn't giving me an option). What else do you recommend not installing? Right now I'm just going to install some basic necessary programs and restart after each time.

[Squish4058]

42 minutes ago, legoboy3322 said:

I just reset my computer and I'm assuming that its ok to instal the display drivers (Windows isn't giving me an option). What else do you recommend not installing? Right now I'm just going to install some basic necessary programs and restart after each time.

uhh it depends lol, do you need them. If you can game without updating them then dont update them. Basically get it in a working state and update one thing a week until you get problems

[legoboy3322]

21 hours ago, kris2340k said:

uhh it depends lol, do you need them. If you can game without updating them then dont update them. Basically get it in a working state and update one thing a week until you get problems

 

 

I should've checked if it was ok when I restarted, it immediately had the same problems (with slight variations). Today I thought to remove all the SATA connections except for my SSD, and it seems fine now (still doing testing with it). My guess is that my Mobo couldn't handle everything. I'm gonna try and connect my HDD next and see if that causes an issue. (I have an SSD, HDD, and 2 DVD drives)

Edited September 15, 2016 by legoboy3322

[legoboy3322]

22 hours ago, kris2340k said:

uhh it depends lol, do you need them. If you can game without updating them then dont update them. Basically get it in a working state and update one thing a week until you get problems

And and I spoke to soon, when I put my computer back where I keep it, it started doing a shortened version of what was previously happening (only one reset required). Maybe it has something to do with peripherals or two monitors.

[Squish4058]

35 minutes ago, legoboy3322 said:

And and I spoke to soon, when I put my computer back where I keep it, it started doing a shortened version of what was previously happening (only one reset required). Maybe it has something to do with peripherals or two monitors.

lol disconnect all of them and leave 1 monitor on for a bit then?

[legoboy3322]

23 hours ago, kris2340k said:

lol disconnect all of them and leave 1 monitor on for a bit then?

So now what it does is it either boots up looking normal and then flashes black and after a few minutes of usage it goes completely black (comes back) and logs me out, or it does the same thing that it was doing.

[Squish4058]

15 hours ago, legoboy3322 said:

So now what it does is it either boots up looking normal and then flashes black and after a few minutes of usage it goes completely black (comes back) and logs me out, or it does the same thing that it was doing.

have you tried booting another OS? like ubuntu off a memory stick. 
I have a feeling it could be a hardware issue but if ubuntu boots fine then its windows

[legoboy3322]

On 9/17/2016 at 9:41 AM, kris2340k said:

have you tried booting another OS? like ubuntu off a memory stick. 
I have a feeling it could be a hardware issue but if ubuntu boots fine then its windows

I burned ubuntu on a flash drive and it seemed to work fine, but I didn't actually install it and am not sure if that would change the results.

[Squish4058]

If ubuntu can boot fine and windows cannot after multiple installs, and you have tried multiple install media and versions of windows then I would say its a safe bet something in the bios does not like windows or your hard drive

 

Try installing windows on a large flash drive if you have one?

[legoboy3322]

1 hour ago, kris2340k said:

If ubuntu can boot fine and windows cannot after multiple installs, and you have tried multiple install media and versions of windows then I would say its a safe bet something in the bios does not like windows or your hard drive

 

Try installing windows on a large flash drive if you have one?

 

I was planning on getting a 128 GB USB 3.0 as a new primary flash drive, my flash drive right now is 64 GB (2.0), would that work? And is that as a test also? After I reinstalled windows yet again, I noticed that when I tried to download something from Edge (I only tried other browsers) it started to "blink" black (every 10-30 seconds). I uninstalled them and it continued, though, I'll try to install only Steam or something like that. I heard that after so many uses, a windows key must be reactivated through Microsoft support center, is this true / approximately how many times until it comes to that?

[Squish4058]

1 hour ago, legoboy3322 said:

I was planning on getting a 128 GB USB 3.0 as a new primary flash drive, my flash drive right now is 64 GB (2.0), would that work? And is that as a test also? After I reinstalled windows yet again, I noticed that when I tried to download something from Edge (I only tried other browsers) it started to "blink" black (every 10-30 seconds). I uninstalled them and it continued, though, I'll try to install only Steam or something like that. I heard that after so many uses, a windows key must be reactivated through Microsoft support center, is this true / approximately how many times until it comes to that?

its normally 30 days which is more than long enough for you to prove that you can auccessfuly install the system on a usb drive

and any usb drive larger than 20gb should be fine