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Doctor Phynx
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Heya. As per guidelines, I'll do my best to elaborate as clearly as I can. I'll also try and explain all the events leading up to it.
So! I've had this Laptop for about... two years? Three years? It worked fine until about six months or so ago. Randomly, it just started to crash upon starting up. Nothing too big, I couldn't fix it regardless of the thirty attempts using online methods, so I did the easy way out: a clean installation of Windows 10 via USB. Previously, I already had Windows 10 installed on the laptop. It worked like a charm, everything on it functioned just as well as before. Skip forward a bit, and for some unknown reason, my laptop repeated this again (I was pretty cautious about what I downloaded after the first time.) This is where the errors started popping up; this time, when I went to repair it via Clean Installation, it went smoothly... up until it finished the installation and reset. Once it resets and enters the next phase (Getting Devices Ready) it freezes completely. Rebooting it causes me to get an error which tells me the installation was corrupted or something (I don't fully remember, I would check but I'm currently using the laptop to post this.) That's where I'm at now. Unable to cleanly and properly install windows. I have, however, figured a workaround.
Once I reach the error code of being unable to install Windows, by pressing SHIFT+F10, I can enter a command prompt. Entering "regedit" and navigating through to the "setup.exe" and changing the value from "1" to "3" allows me to boot past this, and continue setting everything up like normal. Here comes the kicker though: it seems as if I don't install windows properly (i.e. figuring a way beyond the Getting Devices Ready freeze) my drivers aren't working properly. The two drivers that aren't quite what I remember are the Display Driver, which prior to all these issues supported OpenGL yet no longer supports this, and the Network Adapter, which no longer functions, in which case I'm forced to resort to USB tethering via Galaxy S10. My laptop also refuses to allow Bluetooth, too. It does not show on anything, and picks up nothing.
TL;DR My laptop freezes at "Getting Devices Ready" and using regedit to boot past errors breaks my drivers. Any suggestions would be highly appreciated.
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So! I've had this Laptop for about... two years? Three years? It worked fine until about six months or so ago. Randomly, it just started to crash upon starting up. Nothing too big, I couldn't fix it regardless of the thirty attempts using online methods, so I did the easy way out: a clean installation of Windows 10 via USB. Previously, I already had Windows 10 installed on the laptop. It worked like a charm, everything on it functioned just as well as before. Skip forward a bit, and for some unknown reason, my laptop repeated this again (I was pretty cautious about what I downloaded after the first time.) This is where the errors started popping up; this time, when I went to repair it via Clean Installation, it went smoothly... up until it finished the installation and reset. Once it resets and enters the next phase (Getting Devices Ready) it freezes completely. Rebooting it causes me to get an error which tells me the installation was corrupted or something (I don't fully remember, I would check but I'm currently using the laptop to post this.) That's where I'm at now. Unable to cleanly and properly install windows. I have, however, figured a workaround.
Once I reach the error code of being unable to install Windows, by pressing SHIFT+F10, I can enter a command prompt. Entering "regedit" and navigating through to the "setup.exe" and changing the value from "1" to "3" allows me to boot past this, and continue setting everything up like normal. Here comes the kicker though: it seems as if I don't install windows properly (i.e. figuring a way beyond the Getting Devices Ready freeze) my drivers aren't working properly. The two drivers that aren't quite what I remember are the Display Driver, which prior to all these issues supported OpenGL yet no longer supports this, and the Network Adapter, which no longer functions, in which case I'm forced to resort to USB tethering via Galaxy S10. My laptop also refuses to allow Bluetooth, too. It does not show on anything, and picks up nothing.
TL;DR My laptop freezes at "Getting Devices Ready" and using regedit to boot past errors breaks my drivers. Any suggestions would be highly appreciated.
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