- Jul 25, 2016
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I have a desktop made of different parts, I had 2 friends who are experts with hardware pick my specs and then I assembled the pc. I am not computer illiterate, but I have spent 4 days on this and things have become worse. I have hit a metaphorical brick wall. I am completely at a loss for any meaningful answers. My PC constists of an MSI motherboard (cant remember model # and cant check any more), Nvidea Geforce GTX 560 +, 16gb DDR 3 RAM, Intel I5 processor, and 2 western digital internal hard drives that were recycled from my old pc (both worked fine on windows 7 64 bit just moments before the update/upgrade (250gb and 500gb.)) Sequence of events:
1. Update to Windows 10, excited to see the new features
2. Notice Performance getting slower and slower
3. Begin trouble shooting performance, the following steps were all recommended by members of the community or actual microsoft employees
4. Was told my hard drives are probably too full (foolishly the first thing i deleted was the old Windows 7 backup files, dead weight right? Wrong! Welcome to ****!)
5. Change Pagefile settings off of automated but onto the suggested settings
6. Tried restoring to windows 7 (but Im an idiot who deleted the backup, remember?!)
7. Tried windows reset with (save my personal files setting), failed, booted back into 10 with no new problems
8. created iso flash drive and dvd, neither are detected by windows (The bios recognizes the drives are online, the dvd is spinning, however they say please enter a valid boot system)
9. attempted windows reset with (delete all files) setting, stuck overnight at 47%...after going to sleep and waking up, I decide I had better press the reset button on my pc (might as well have pressed it with a sledge hammer traveling 100 miles an hour)
10. Awesome new problem! PC no longer boots to windows 10, gets stuck and says something along the lines of please enter a valid boot drive and press control+alt+delete to reset
11. Change bios settings around (alter boot order some more, disable UEFI, enable legacy settings)
12. Even cooler new error, says some stuff about my hardware and then tries to connect to a network that doesnt exist to do a boot, PXE mof failed to connect please insert boot drive and press control alt delete to reset
13. read everything i can find about pxe mof error, no one has any answers that dont involve replacing the hard drives or motherboard)
14. cynically read this forum and type this post
15. jump off bridge
Notes: Yes I tried to use rufus, DBANS boot and nuke, I know how to mount isos, burn images correctly, I wasnt blindly altering BIOS commands, I tried making repair disks from Windows and MAC (using windows boot camp assistant), none of these even registered, so they didnt mess up the PC....none of it freaking works okay? If one more person tells me to create another freaking restore disk, my ghost (im a ghost after the bridge thing) is coming back to haunt your butt! I have learned that originally the performance probably suffered because I claimed ownership of the hard drive and checked the box saying include subfolders and files (this can apparently lock microsoft out of updating windows.) I think there is a step or 2 I forgot to mention, this process has been long and arduous. I cannot remember everything off the top of my head, forgive me. I actually hate Microsoft now with a passion, it is as if they are my worst enemy who laughed in my face while they tortured me for days. I think i need therapy after the "Upgrade". THE CAKE IS A LIE, dont do it! Anyone have any clue how to fix this??
1. Update to Windows 10, excited to see the new features
2. Notice Performance getting slower and slower
3. Begin trouble shooting performance, the following steps were all recommended by members of the community or actual microsoft employees
4. Was told my hard drives are probably too full (foolishly the first thing i deleted was the old Windows 7 backup files, dead weight right? Wrong! Welcome to ****!)
5. Change Pagefile settings off of automated but onto the suggested settings
6. Tried restoring to windows 7 (but Im an idiot who deleted the backup, remember?!)
7. Tried windows reset with (save my personal files setting), failed, booted back into 10 with no new problems
8. created iso flash drive and dvd, neither are detected by windows (The bios recognizes the drives are online, the dvd is spinning, however they say please enter a valid boot system)
9. attempted windows reset with (delete all files) setting, stuck overnight at 47%...after going to sleep and waking up, I decide I had better press the reset button on my pc (might as well have pressed it with a sledge hammer traveling 100 miles an hour)
10. Awesome new problem! PC no longer boots to windows 10, gets stuck and says something along the lines of please enter a valid boot drive and press control+alt+delete to reset
11. Change bios settings around (alter boot order some more, disable UEFI, enable legacy settings)
12. Even cooler new error, says some stuff about my hardware and then tries to connect to a network that doesnt exist to do a boot, PXE mof failed to connect please insert boot drive and press control alt delete to reset
13. read everything i can find about pxe mof error, no one has any answers that dont involve replacing the hard drives or motherboard)
14. cynically read this forum and type this post
15. jump off bridge
Notes: Yes I tried to use rufus, DBANS boot and nuke, I know how to mount isos, burn images correctly, I wasnt blindly altering BIOS commands, I tried making repair disks from Windows and MAC (using windows boot camp assistant), none of these even registered, so they didnt mess up the PC....none of it freaking works okay? If one more person tells me to create another freaking restore disk, my ghost (im a ghost after the bridge thing) is coming back to haunt your butt! I have learned that originally the performance probably suffered because I claimed ownership of the hard drive and checked the box saying include subfolders and files (this can apparently lock microsoft out of updating windows.) I think there is a step or 2 I forgot to mention, this process has been long and arduous. I cannot remember everything off the top of my head, forgive me. I actually hate Microsoft now with a passion, it is as if they are my worst enemy who laughed in my face while they tortured me for days. I think i need therapy after the "Upgrade". THE CAKE IS A LIE, dont do it! Anyone have any clue how to fix this??
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