What could be the cause?

[Flawizz]

IM sorry this might look a bit long but please i need help!

 

 

my pc crashed while doing some hdd and ssd swapping. now im trying to figure out whats the cause of my pc not working properly.

my ram sticks are faulty but i can still do most tasks.(will swap them this week or next)

my 1060 3gb is being detected as Nvidia microsoft basic display adapter.

using windows media creation tool to put windows 10 pro 64 bit on anything doesnt work. can it be the usb or the drive? or even perhaps the ram cause it stops halfway with an error

installing drivers for my 1060 doesnt work, it stops halfway and gives a 7zip error.

i can't install most stuff, like games and drivers.

What could be the cause?

now im here writing this and trying to figure out, wether my mobo is faulty, my ram is faulty (it already is but is it the cause of many things not working?), my ssd is faulty, my usb stick which had the media creation tool on it was faulty, im wondering if some of you awesome people on the forums have any idea

 

Thanks in advance!

[Derrk]

no offense, but this may have been the worst thing ive ever read.

It's pretty hard to follow. You know you have faulty ram? a side quest about a usb in the washing machine? Swapping HDDs from your machine and just popping them into his? VIRUSES IN THE SATA CABLES??? 

 

hope this helps. you can't just switch a hdd with windows into a new machine and hope it works. You need to reinstall windows on the drive. If his computer has viruses, just reinstalling the operating system on his current drive should take care of it

[Flawizz]

Just now, Derrk said:

no offense, but this may have been the worst thing ive ever read.

It's pretty hard to follow. You know you have faulty ram? a side quest about a usb in the washing machine? Swapping HDDs from your machine and just popping them into his? VIRUSES IN THE SATA CABLES??? 

 

hope this helps. you can't just switch a hdd with windows into a new machine and hope it works. You need to reinstall windows on the drive. If his computer has viruses, just reinstalling the operating system on his current drive should take care of it

yes i know and im sorry, english is not my first nor second language. also i was planning on plugging in an empty drive with windows in his pc and boot off that. just trying things out, im pretty new to this stuff.

[Anghammarad]

you said your ram was faulty... 

 

Faulty ram leads to crashing Operating systems, even may corrupt file systems... 

 

So either wait until you have new ram and start over, or use some gasoline and a match and start over with the whole machine...

 

As soon as you know that essential pieces may be broken... well don't swap around stuff wildly untill you swapped out the broken part.

[Derrk]

Just now, Flawizz said:

yes i know and im sorry, english is not my first nor second language. also i was planning on plugging in an empty drive with windows in his pc and boot off that. just trying things out, im pretty new to this stuff.

didn't mean to be rude. it was just a bit long, with lots of things going on. 

 

i recommend either:

taking out his hdd. putting a blank one in, and then installing windows to it from a usb

or

trying to reinstall windows into his current hdd which will remove viruses

[Flawizz]

1 minute ago, Anghammarad said:

you said your ram was faulty... 

 

Faulty ram leads to crashing Operating systems, even may corrupt file systems... 

 

So either wait until you have new ram and start over, or use some gasoline and a match and start over with the whole machine...

 

As soon as you know that essential pieces may be broken... well don't swap around stuff wildly untill you swapped out the broken part.

thanks alot <3 im sending my ram tomorrow and see what happens when they're fixed

[Flawizz]

9 minutes ago, Derrk said:

no offense, but this may have been the worst thing ive ever read.

It's pretty hard to follow. You know you have faulty ram? a side quest about a usb in the washing machine? Swapping HDDs from your machine and just popping them into his? VIRUSES IN THE SATA CABLES??? 

 

hope this helps. you can't just switch a hdd with windows into a new machine and hope it works. You need to reinstall windows on the drive. If his computer has viruses, just reinstalling the operating system on his current drive should take care of it

shortened it a bit, hope this is better. and ty for your help <3

[Anghammarad]

6 minutes ago, Flawizz said:

thanks alot <3 im sending my ram tomorrow and see what happens when they're fixed

They don't fix them anymore... just check if they are broken, if yes they just send a new pair... fixing would be too expensive...

 

Just for the future, if you know, your cpu or ram is defective, shut the system down and get a spare part/rma the broken thing. With that you mostly ever keep your system. 

 

When your HDD is dying, don't shut your system down, disable energy savings for the hdd (spinning ones not ssd) so that they don't spin down to save energy when not in direct use... get a new HDD as soon as possible and then copy over the data. Because each spin up/spin down might then be the last for the dying HDD...