Recent content by RutnitheDwarf

So, the issue has been solved! It was in most part a PEBCAK error, unfortunately (or fortunately since then it was solvable). When I had originally had issues, I'd updated the BIOS to the latest version. Last night after setting Memtest86+ to run (and it did come back no errors after 8 passes!)...

So the update of where I've gotten before I set my computer to run Memtest for the night: I played around a bit with a few settings just to look for consistencies and to see how far I could get in the entire process. The monitor issue was indeed irrelevant and made no difference. With my...

Fair enough. So far I ran 1 pass of Memtest86+ with 0 errors. If I'm not mistaken you need minimum 8 passes to be accurate, right? I can run 8 fresh ones overnight/while at work and update once those are done tomorrow. I'll admit I don't really know how to test a cpu and especially outside of...

Alright, apologies for the late reply. So after work now I combined solutions from both suggestions and have made some progress. I completely wiped the new HDD, I did a full format of the USB drive and put a fresh Windows image on there. I then tried a fresh install with no ethernet cable and...

Alright, thank you. That gives me a good direction to start in. It's late now so I'll begin again at this tomorrow but thinking I'll check the HDD while remaking the image on the USB drive (HDD is a Western Digital Red Plus btw). Then assuming HDD checks out try again with fresh image on the USB...

So to start from the beginning, I've been trying to upgrade my PC currently running Windows 8.1 to Windows 10. In trying to update straight on the same HDD it would get to about 50% and then reset, revert changes, and I'd get error message 0xC1900101 - 0x30018 saying that the installation failed...