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Roger Wright24-Jun-23 5:44

24-Jun-23 5:44

Nope. There is no Windows drive. It stops at 4% Preparing Files - it never does anything to the drive.

Will Rogers never met me.

Gerry Schmitz24-Jun-23 3:44

Gerry Schmitz

24-Jun-23 3:44

I would never buy a new PC, expecting to "upgrade" the OS on it. I would only buy with the desired OS "pre-installed". Unless I was building from scratch.

"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I

Roger Wright24-Jun-23 3:47

24-Jun-23 3:47

Since I've never bought a prebuilt PC since 1994, that's exactly what I'm doing - build from scratch.

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Gerry Schmitz24-Jun-23 6:14

Gerry Schmitz

24-Jun-23 6:14

Replace the motherboard?

(My mistake: when someone says "new PC", I assume off the shelf; I just refer to my "latest creation")

Roger Wright24-Jun-23 6:32

24-Jun-23 6:32

That's certainly a possibility, Gerry, but not until I'm convinced that it's faulty. The odds of bad RAM are far higher than a bad MB. Oh well, it will eventually become obvious what's wrong. Big Grin | :-D

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Richard Andrew x6424-Jun-23 3:50

Richard Andrew x64

24-Jun-23 3:50

Have you considered that you might have a bad memory module? Did you make certain that the RAM you installed is on the compatibility list of the motherboard?

I have always used Asus motherboards with great success.

The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.

Roger Wright24-Jun-23 5:47

24-Jun-23 5:47

It's possible, Richard, but I've no reliable way to test it. The motherboard BIOS setup includes MEMTEST86, but the results are inconclusive. It bails out and fails while running, but the summary results say PASS: 100%. Go figure. There are other memory test utilities out there, but they all assume an operating system is there to execute them. I do have a fresh copy of Ubuntu that I can try, I guess.

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Richard Andrew x6424-Jun-23 5:50

Richard Andrew x64

24-Jun-23 5:50

Yes, the Ubuntu sounds like a very good thing to try. I had the same problem with a machine that I built in 2015. It wouldn't load Windows and the problem turned out to be the RAM was not compatible with the motherboard. That's something very important to be aware of.

The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.

Roger Wright24-Jun-23 5:54

24-Jun-23 5:54

Curiously, I used the PC Builder system at Newegg to select components, and it supposedly checks compatibility. But then I did do all my own checking just in case.

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Nelek25-Jun-23 4:11

Nelek

25-Jun-23 4:11

Hiren's stopped the work a while ago, but there is another new DVD of it for PC's from windows 10 times.

It might bring a couple of tools inside helpfull for the new hardware.

M.D.V.

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Peter Adam26-Jun-23 8:46

Peter Adam

26-Jun-23 8:46

There is many ways to check, you can use the Windows Memory Test Point 9 here , you can make your own bootable memtest86+ stick (download UEFI or MBR boot): MemTest86 - Download now!, or use Hiren's BootCD 15.2 Download | TechSpot.

Maybe checking that the RAM runs on the specs in the motherboard helps, my Kingston Fury RAMs did not start with the last two AMD boards (Asus, Asrock), had to manually set the frequency (lucky me, nothing beyond that). It was auto-recognized as a much slower RAM with different timing.

Roger Wright26-Jun-23 14:32

26-Jun-23 14:32

The MemTest86 UEFI boot stick did the trick. I've isolated it to one pair of memory sticks, but can't sort it out beyond that. Sadly, since I've never had a failure before, I didn't keep the original packaging, so I can't return those two. Oh well, I suppose 32 GB will do for now. Thanks for the tip!

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Jan Heckman26-Jun-23 9:32

Jan Heckman

26-Jun-23 9:32

Was going to say I never had anything like this. Well, but failure to start into Windows (must have been 7 at the time) I had once and it was cured after noticing the memory modules were not clearly endorsed, or rather, I could not get anyone to say that they had a working config same as mine. So I changed the memory, which had practically be given to me, hated to spend money on an uncertain thing, but then it worked ok.
And yes, it was an ASUS mobo, like all others I worked with.
Afaik/reputation-wise Asus has good builds but documentation is not of same level.

Jeremy Falcon24-Jun-23 4:27

24-Jun-23 4:27

Roger Wright wrote:
I've assembled a lot of PC's in the past 30 years, for myself and for others. I've never experienced a single glitch, as everything has always gone perfectly smoothly.

It's probably the RAM, everything else is cookie-cutter. Motherboards come with a lot of optimizations these days in the areas of CPU, GPU, and RAM. Assuming you're supplying enough power to all the parts or you're not overheating... Here's what you need to do:

Go get a BIOS update on a USB stick from another computer. Update your BIOS to fix any bugs, etc. since the motherboard was released.
Then go into your BIOS and disable ALL optimizations - especially for your RAM.
Now, install windows. Go through the Windows update process, etc.
Then and only then, turn back on those optimizations one-by-one to see if you still have a problem.

Roger Wright wrote:
But I've never used an ASUS motherboard. I will never do so again.

ASUS sucks now. They used to be awesome. Times change.

Jeremy Falcon

Richard Andrew x6424-Jun-23 5:15

Richard Andrew x64

24-Jun-23 5:15

Jeremy Falcon wrote:
ASUS sucks now. They used to be awesome. Times change

This is the first I've heard of this. Is it the quality control? The components they use? What sucks about them? I've always had good luck with them.

The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.

Jeremy Falcon24-Jun-23 5:33

24-Jun-23 5:33

Richard Andrew x64 wrote:
This is the first I've heard of this. Is it the quality control? The components they use? What sucks about them? I've always had good luck with them.

I haven't built a PC myself lately, so I haven't personally bought an ASUS motherboard recently. But, I'm going off this video[^] which talks about overvoltage in a beta feature treated as production ready that also voids your warranty if you use the fix for it... despite it being a fix for something that shouldn't be sent to the consumer in the first place as it wasn't fully tested.

Jeremy Falcon

honey the codewitch24-Jun-23 5:43

honey the codewitch

24-Jun-23 5:43

I don't agree with your assessment of their boards. I've had continuously good luck with their ROG and TUF lines, even now.

My current board is an ASUS ROG Strix. My last Board was a TUF. I only buy ASUS boards.

Don't know what you've found with them, but other than one misstep with a backward cap on some batches of one of their boards in the ROG line at one point, they've been solid - and every company screws up once in awhile.

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Jeremy Falcon24-Jun-23 5:47

24-Jun-23 5:47

We've already established a discussion with you has a 99.9% probability of being an argument. I would expect you'd not agree. I wouldn't expect a reply however.

Jeremy Falcon

honey the codewitch24-Jun-23 6:09

honey the codewitch

24-Jun-23 6:09

If I had glanced at your username before I replied I wouldn't have expected a helpful response anyway.

Have a nice day.

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https://honeythecodewitch/gfx

Jeremy Falcon24-Jun-23 9:41

24-Jun-23 9:41

Cool. So we established you don’t fully read the posts you reply to.

Have a nice day.

Jeremy Falcon

honey the codewitch24-Jun-23 10:55

honey the codewitch

24-Jun-23 10:55

I read the part where you said don't expect a reply from you. As you replied twice.

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https://honeythecodewitch/gfx

Jeremy Falcon24-Jun-23 12:15

24-Jun-23 12:15

Clearly, being as argumentative as you are… you feel the need to get the last word.

Fine, you can have it. Just leave me alone. I tire of this childish behavior.

Jeremy Falcon

haughtonomous25-Jun-23 21:26

haughtonomous

25-Jun-23 21:26

Boy, you are one silly intemperate person!

Jeremy Falcon26-Jun-23 3:12

26-Jun-23 3:12

For one, I don't care what you think. For two, don't judge me based on your out of context conclusion. For three, if you actually were neutral and opted to lean on intellectual observations of this thread, you'll see I was right in all my points. Instead, you feel the need to demonstrate your bias to help you feel better like you're a savior or something. You're not.

So, to put it simply, if you're going to be "that type" who loves to argue then leave me alone as well. You are not worth my time with this low level of discourse. If CP had a blocking feature, I'd block you too. I deseve peace, not the antics of argumentative people with nothing better to do.

Jeremy Falcon