Windows and me

[DrMacintosh]

Ok, so today was a day of juts terrible experiences. 

 

For or a while I have had the feeling that my Windows install was pretty crappy, file explorer would randomly crash and restart, parts of the UI would not "hook" 

 

recenlty with the arrival of new AMD drivers, I would attempt to install them. Resulting in multiple BSODs no mater what I did unless I went back to a beta driver 

 

I tried updating my drivers again this morning and it seemed more promising this time but still failed. So I reinstalled the beta drivers and everything was fine for a few hours. But of course something had to go wrong......eventually my disk became slammed to 100% and the whole system became unresponsive and eventually BSODed due to Stop Code: "Memory Managment."

 

Windows restarted and attempted to "scan and repair", that worked but again, the system was extremely slow and the disk was slammed at 100%. I got a notification saying to check for errors and so I did so. Windows ran the scan and repair twice and eventually failed and could not boot. 

 

As as we speak the system is attempting to restore from a previous state, but I am not with my PC for at least another hour so I have no idea if it will work and/or fix the problem......

 

 

At this point I might just say f*ck it and reset and start from ground 0. My mission critical data is on my secondary drive, mostly....

 

This whole day is making me wonder if continuing to support M$ is wise, even if I fresh install I'm bound to run into an issue that crashes everything the next time Microsoft decides to drop a random update and tries to install it when I shut down my PC...............

 

Lets hope my recovery works I guess.......

 

 

[Verrierr]

You might want to run memtest and crystldiskinfo, to check if faulty hardware isn't the issue. The amount of crappy you're getting seems to be a bit too much to blame it all on OS.

[DrMacintosh]

1 minute ago, Verrierr said:

You might want to run memtest and crystldiskinfo, to check if faulty hardware isn't the issue. The amount of crappy you're getting seems to be a bit too much to blame it all on OS.

Well maybe I can.......if the recovery works.......

[Slottr]

Doesnt sound sound like OS problems to be honest.. from my experience, it sounds like your hard drive is.

[DrMacintosh]

1 minute ago, Slottr said:

Doesnt sound sound like OS problems to be honest.. from my experience, it sounds like your hard drive is the problem

Unless the drive miraculously failed in the span of less than an hour I don't see how it's the drive , it might be my RAM but idk. If the drive is damaged in some way, now is the perfect time to get an SSD, although I really don't have the cash for it atm and decent sized SSDs are not cheap.

[MSWindowsinside]

Could also be a bad sata connection, check your event log if you can log in to the system again. Windows has nothing to do with it, I hate it when people point their fingers at a huge company just because they can.

[WAR Corporation]

@DrMacintosh Just get a 120 / 240 GB SDD and then buy something better in the future.

I've had the same problem with windows 10 and it wasn't the hard drive, was just the "windows awesome (terrible)" updates. I reinstalled Win10, disabled updates (Click on the start menu>Write "services">Look for "Windows Update">From "automatic startup" or whatever, turn that to disabled and then stop the service.). Windows 10 is now snappier than before, and I don't get the constant errors "cortana and start menu stopped working" uh microsoft y?

 

Hope this helped...

[DrMacintosh]

12 minutes ago, WAR Corporation said:

@DrMacintosh Just get a 120 / 240 GB SDD and then buy something better in the future.

I've had the same problem with windows 10 and it wasn't the hard drive, was just the "windows awesome (terrible)" updates. I reinstalled Win10, disabled updates (Click on the start menu>Write "services">Look for "Windows Update">From "automatic startup" or whatever, turn that to disabled and then stop the service.). Windows 10 is now snappier than before, and I don't get the constant errors "cortana and start menu stopped working" uh microsoft y?

 

Hope this helped...

I'm definitely considering an SSD. After a failed recovery attempt the thing restarted into Windows somehow. Right now I'm shuffling through any last minute data that I can't live without like my downs loads folder and some random docs to my 2TB secondary drive just I case sh*t hits the fan again. Right now the system seems stable and the disk usage is under control again. 

[DrMacintosh]

1 hour ago, Verrierr said:

You might want to run memtest and crystldiskinfo, to check if faulty hardware isn't the issue. The amount of crappy you're getting seems to be a bit too much to blame it all on OS.

The system is up and running and is stable for now, how exactly do I use those programs or is it as simple as clicking download and run? 

[DrMacintosh]

35 minutes ago, WAR Corporation said:

@DrMacintosh Just get a 120 / 240 GB SDD and then buy something better in the future.

I've had the same problem with windows 10 and it wasn't the hard drive, was just the "windows awesome (terrible)" updates. I reinstalled Win10, disabled updates (Click on the start menu>Write "services">Look for "Windows Update">From "automatic startup" or whatever, turn that to disabled and then stop the service.). Windows 10 is now snappier than before, and I don't get the constant errors "cortana and start menu stopped working" uh microsoft y?

 

Hope this helped...

Btw, this whole thing started when I wanted to upgrade my drivers.....now after all this trouble and hair pulling and a failed restore.........Crimson reports I'm on the latest drivers now.......what the actual f*ck is going on......

[Verrierr]

8 hours ago, DrMacintosh said:

The system is up and running and is stable for now, how exactly do I use those programs or is it as simple as clicking download and run? 

For crystal disk info you only need to download and run it.

Things get a little more complicated with memtest since it functions as a kind of mini OS and you need to boot it from USB thumbdrive or CD drive. But this also isn't all that hard. Just go to memtest's website download the free edition of USB/CD version and if your moderately versed in the "arts of tech" you should be able to figure out the rest.

 

But if your system remains stable the I suppose there's no need to bother