Having so many problems making my desktop work.

Peyton2458

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Ok so I built a gaming computer with the help of my dad but he's out of town and I'm having so many issues. First of all the gaming drivers make my computers restart in a loop until a windows error comes up. So I uninstalled then drivers and the restarting stopped and I reinstalled them hoping there was a glitch when I first installed them but it still restarts. Then I uninstalled them again but it acts as if the drivers are still installed. (Note I uninstalled the drivers in safe mode because it's the only thing I could do) and now I'm trying to reset my computer so I can activate windows which I didn't do and I hope that's fixes my problem but when I try to reset my computer it says "There was a problem resetting your computer" so I looked it up and did some commands in command prompt that is supposed to fix the problem but when I type the final command it says "The Process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process." Even though I'm using command prompt in the window so error place so the desktop isn't even loaded up. So my question is how the heck do I fix my problem so i can reset my computer and activate windows and then keep looking for my problem with the drivers? (I'm hoping windows not being activated is causing the gaming drivers to make my computer restart but it's probably not) Also I apologize in advance on any mistakes or missing information, this is really ticking me off and it's hard to think straight.
 
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If you are willing to reset the PC, why not fresh install instead?

is there anything on C drive you want to rescue? try making this on another PC: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/use-ubuntu-live-cd-to-backup-files-from-your-dead-windows-computer/
Also, on another PC, download the Windows 10 media creation tool and use it to make a win 10 installer on USB - unless you have one now


change boot order in BIOS so USB is first, hdd second
boot from installer
follow this guide: http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/1950-windows-10-clean-install.html

when you reach the screen asking for licence, click "I don't have a key" and win 10 will continue to install and then activate it with key unless you have already in which case...

Colif

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If you are willing to reset the PC, why not fresh install instead?

is there anything on C drive you want to rescue? try making this on another PC: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/use-ubuntu-live-cd-to-backup-files-from-your-dead-windows-computer/
Also, on another PC, download the Windows 10 media creation tool and use it to make a win 10 installer on USB - unless you have one now


change boot order in BIOS so USB is first, hdd second
boot from installer
follow this guide: http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/1950-windows-10-clean-install.html

when you reach the screen asking for licence, click "I don't have a key" and win 10 will continue to install and then activate it with key unless you have already in which case it should be auto.

On the screen where you choose where to install win 10, if it gives you an error about GPT drives, delete all the partitions on the hdd and press next. If it still gives error, cancel out of the installer and restart PC and start installer again, it will accept next on that screen this time (some PC just need a restart here)

Fresh install may not have same problem with the drivers. What drivers is it anyway? what gaming drivers?
 
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