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I went through much of this headache last week. Following an update, the wife's all-in-one kept failing to boot, instead blue-screening with a 'machine check exception'. After 3 attempts at restoring all failed, I decided that it needed a fresh OS and if I was going to go through that trouble, I might as well put it on a new SSD...and since the guts were going to be exposed, I should go ahead an double the memory to a respectable 8GB. It was probably silly to do this, but in order to make it as easy as possible, I purchased Win 10 Home on a USB stick.

I get all the parts in, get Win 10 installing, and all seems good...until it started setting up devices then blue-screened. WTF | :WTF: It took me awhile to figure it out, but the problem was the onboard wifi adapter. I had to fight with it to remove it, but afterward Win 10 finished the install and the computer is better than new, going from over 2 minutes to less than 10 seconds from boot to Google.

Two things that I'd like to note here:
0: I'm surprised that a lowly non-critical device such as a wifi adapter can stop Win 10 from loading or finishing an install. Why not just disable the sucker and move on?
1: The error message was totally useless...OK, hardware issue...you know which device caused the crash, so why not be a little more helpful and share!

One more thing that has come to mind is that a great way to boost new PC sales would be to make older hardware obsolete. Suspicious | :suss: I had just about given up on the PC discussed above. Two weeks ago, my sister-in-law asked about an issue where WU keeps freezing at 82%...first question, 'how old is it'. answer, > 6 years, so I took the easy way out and advised to get a new one. I've since talked to my brother and he's going to try a new SSD and a fresh Win 7 install.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse

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