Alright so I just got my 9 month old computer back from repair by the company that assembled it, It'd had a bad motherboard. Except now there's a new problem and I don't know if it's the fact that they put in the Win10 10-18 Red-whatever update the morning it came out or something even more sinister, but stuff was busted from the start and I'm on day two of this trash and I need to get back to work but my work is on the computer.
BASICALLY:
When I turn it on, it gives me a "Disk Read Error" and after a few times of restarting it will (very, verrryyy) slowly boot up. Then once logged in it takes several minutes (average 5) before the computer is loaded enough that it even functions- quite a departure from its previous lighting fast speed, and there isn't much on this computer as it is. Then it runs fine until seemingly at random the screen will flicker to black (to clarify it's not the monitor doing it, it doesn't turn off and on it runs normally when this happens), and then I will be back at my desktop, except there are no icons, my righthand tray on the task bar is missing icons, and windows of running programs will not display. If I hover over say an open youtube icon on the taskbar it shows the preview no problem, I can literally watch the video in the preview icon. Sound continues to work. Clicking the windows start icon works but the windows button on the keyboard only highlights it, not open it. Even if I shortcut to task manager it wont show up, nor will anything I "open". These things clearly are running, they will get icons on the taskbar with previews and all, but the windows will not display. On a couple occasions the screen then went to black and I couldn't do anything.
I ran all the troubleshooters and nothing showed, I ran check disk twice and nothing came up. I updated every driver possible and nothing.
I also have 100% disk usage for some reason? Something seems to be funky here.
I'm of course talking to the repair team but it's the weekend, and my warranty is expiring this month, so my hopes are not high on their end. I've already missed a month of work for this computer which I haven't even paid off yet, if anyone can help I'd be most grateful!
BASICALLY:
When I turn it on, it gives me a "Disk Read Error" and after a few times of restarting it will (very, verrryyy) slowly boot up. Then once logged in it takes several minutes (average 5) before the computer is loaded enough that it even functions- quite a departure from its previous lighting fast speed, and there isn't much on this computer as it is. Then it runs fine until seemingly at random the screen will flicker to black (to clarify it's not the monitor doing it, it doesn't turn off and on it runs normally when this happens), and then I will be back at my desktop, except there are no icons, my righthand tray on the task bar is missing icons, and windows of running programs will not display. If I hover over say an open youtube icon on the taskbar it shows the preview no problem, I can literally watch the video in the preview icon. Sound continues to work. Clicking the windows start icon works but the windows button on the keyboard only highlights it, not open it. Even if I shortcut to task manager it wont show up, nor will anything I "open". These things clearly are running, they will get icons on the taskbar with previews and all, but the windows will not display. On a couple occasions the screen then went to black and I couldn't do anything.
I ran all the troubleshooters and nothing showed, I ran check disk twice and nothing came up. I updated every driver possible and nothing.
I also have 100% disk usage for some reason? Something seems to be funky here.
I'm of course talking to the repair team but it's the weekend, and my warranty is expiring this month, so my hopes are not high on their end. I've already missed a month of work for this computer which I haven't even paid off yet, if anyone can help I'd be most grateful!