The W10 March 2032 update showed a screen saying its ready. So shortly thereafter switched off my PC. Turns out it was not ready at all, so I interrupted the update process. CRASH. Could not restart, role back or anything but getting stuck in a repair-diagnostics-reboot loop. Tried everything, but no dice.
After 3 days trying, decided to do a clean reinstall: no dice either. Checking all the error messages decided that maybe the GPU was the problem. NVIDIA GTX 570. Took that one physically out, reinstall went smoothly.
Once running and updated, Device Manager warned that "PCI Simple Communication Controller" was not installed, no driver.
I also checked my Device Manager System to see if there was any mention of a MEI at all, also nothing.
Could not find a driver for that PCI controller, probably because I am running a i7 2600K from 2011.
Whatever. I tried to put back the GPU, but the PC would not start or was running with a blocked display, because I only had a black screen. Switching from GPU to integrated graphics also did not work.
Until the March 2023 update, this old rig was running perfectly and still very quick. The GPU was never under heavy load, at least not for long, no gaming and only occasionally video editing at 1080p max. After W7 I did a clean reinstall to W10. This rig worked perfect and never had problems with updates.
Now it looks I might end up having to buy at least a new GPU, maybe a complete new rig.
Some questions:
Some additional details:
PC home-buildt 2011.
Motherboard Asus P8Z68-V Pro gen 3 ; CPU i7-2600k; 16 GB Kingston RAM (4 sticks), GPU ASUS-NVIDIA GTX 570, integrated graphics HD3600.
I plundered some old pc's and laptops recently, and bought something new, so now I have a 240 GB SSD as OS drive, a 250 GB SSD for video editing, and a 1 TB SSD for daily data work and pictures. And 2 HDDs (1TB+2TB) as data and media backup.
After 3 days trying, decided to do a clean reinstall: no dice either. Checking all the error messages decided that maybe the GPU was the problem. NVIDIA GTX 570. Took that one physically out, reinstall went smoothly.
Once running and updated, Device Manager warned that "PCI Simple Communication Controller" was not installed, no driver.
I also checked my Device Manager System to see if there was any mention of a MEI at all, also nothing.
Could not find a driver for that PCI controller, probably because I am running a i7 2600K from 2011.
Whatever. I tried to put back the GPU, but the PC would not start or was running with a blocked display, because I only had a black screen. Switching from GPU to integrated graphics also did not work.
Until the March 2023 update, this old rig was running perfectly and still very quick. The GPU was never under heavy load, at least not for long, no gaming and only occasionally video editing at 1080p max. After W7 I did a clean reinstall to W10. This rig worked perfect and never had problems with updates.
Now it looks I might end up having to buy at least a new GPU, maybe a complete new rig.
Some questions:
- Can the missing driver stop the GPU from being instlled or accessed?
- Would a clean install using a very early Windows 10 version maybe solve the PCI driver problem or the GPU not being accepted?
- Can the repeated hard reboots during the initial crash finish off (killl) my GPU?
Some additional details:
PC home-buildt 2011.
Motherboard Asus P8Z68-V Pro gen 3 ; CPU i7-2600k; 16 GB Kingston RAM (4 sticks), GPU ASUS-NVIDIA GTX 570, integrated graphics HD3600.
I plundered some old pc's and laptops recently, and bought something new, so now I have a 240 GB SSD as OS drive, a 250 GB SSD for video editing, and a 1 TB SSD for daily data work and pictures. And 2 HDDs (1TB+2TB) as data and media backup.