Right then,
About two weeks ago I bought a new Motherboard, CPU, Fan, memory and a WLAN PCIe card. These were to be placed into a four years old PC. The power supply and SSDs were replaced about two years ago.
All went well except for the WLAN card. It simply wouldn't work. Finally got into my router, made a few small changes and it worked. Well, for about an hour or so. I was streaming a movie and the screen froze. I rebooted and the troubles began.
Appears I need to do a clean install. I didn't consider that before. I can't get into Windows at all currently. I get either the black screen of death or a the black screen with the Windows logo but no spinning wheel.
I see from the MS page on creating Windows 10 installation media that, 'To get started, you will first need to have a license to install Windows 10'. My license is most like buried in the PC I'm trying to revive. Is there a means to obtain this somehow? I don't wish to go through the steps of the clean install, to fall short.
Advise?
Cheers!
About two weeks ago I bought a new Motherboard, CPU, Fan, memory and a WLAN PCIe card. These were to be placed into a four years old PC. The power supply and SSDs were replaced about two years ago.
All went well except for the WLAN card. It simply wouldn't work. Finally got into my router, made a few small changes and it worked. Well, for about an hour or so. I was streaming a movie and the screen froze. I rebooted and the troubles began.
Appears I need to do a clean install. I didn't consider that before. I can't get into Windows at all currently. I get either the black screen of death or a the black screen with the Windows logo but no spinning wheel.
I see from the MS page on creating Windows 10 installation media that, 'To get started, you will first need to have a license to install Windows 10'. My license is most like buried in the PC I'm trying to revive. Is there a means to obtain this somehow? I don't wish to go through the steps of the clean install, to fall short.
Advise?
Cheers!