Windows reset 99% 25 hours and still going!

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Hi everyone.

so, i decided to do a clean reset of my computer.

Thing is, its been over 25 hours now, that it has been at 99%, its not frozen, little circle is still spinning. What is your advice?

How long have you guys waited with this before. Do i turn it off? Do i wait it out?
OBS. I dont have any windows 10 CD.

Specs.
MSI gforce 970 GTX 4gb,
Intel i5 2500.
8gb ram.
1 TB 7200 hdd.


Thanks!

Best regards,
Martin.
 
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Colif
On another PC, download the Windows 10 media creation tool and use it to make a win 10 installer on USB

I doubt its doing anything still after 25 hours unless you have several 8tb drives in PC, which you don't. You could turn it off and restart, see what happens...

If it doesn't boot, since you did a full reset, I would just do a clean install.
change boot order so USB is first, hdd second
boot from installer
follow this helpful guide: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/1950-windows-10-clean-install.html

when you reach page asking for licence key, click "I don't have a key" and win 10 will continue installation and reactivate itself once finished.
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On another PC, download the Windows 10 media creation tool and use it to make a win 10 installer on USB

I doubt its doing anything still after 25 hours unless you have several 8tb drives in PC, which you don't. You could turn it off and restart, see what happens...

If it doesn't boot, since you did a full reset, I would just do a clean install.
change boot order so USB is first, hdd second
boot from installer
follow this helpful guide: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/1950-windows-10-clean-install.html

when you reach page asking for licence key, click "I don't have a key" and win 10 will continue installation and reactivate itself once finished.
 
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Hi, and thank you for your reply.

Was thinking that i might have to do that, even tho i still had a shred of hope.

Gonna restart it now, see what it says.

Thanks mate!
 
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update.

So, i just press the restart button, it shut down, started up, and now its installing windows.

Could it have finished the reset process?

Never ceases to amaze me this stuff.
 
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I tried to use that reset tool within windows before as well and had a similar problem. Mine just went to a black screen and stayed there for hours. I ended up just using the media creation tool and doing a clean install that way, as colif suggested.
 
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Hi, and thank you for your answer.

First time it ever did this with me, and i reset it frequently, only other thing i did this time, was to do the full reset thing, where it says if youre giving the PC away.

Its currently installing windows, gonna see if it will do that, or if it will get stuck here.. Crossing fingers.

Again, thank you for your help guys!
 
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Like really haha.. "thank god" ive been sick the last 24 hours, so didnt matter that much i guess (thats why i was so patient)

Thanks for the answer!

Installing windows now as we speak.

You think it did the clean clean reset? Even tho i restarted it?
 
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Atleast it wasnt so bad that it wasnt good for anything!

The thing is, after it installs windows, and goes to the setup (language etc)

I cant press anything.. Any fixer for that maybe?

damn it!
 
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what USB slots are you plugged into on PC? Are they the black ones at back of case? It shouldn't matter as win 10 should recognise USB 3 but its worth a try.

One fix is use PS2 mouse/keyboard but they pretty rare these days.

What motherboard do you have? it might be a setting in the bios for legacy USB support...
 
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Its plugged in the back, in the black ones, tried switching it around too..

I dont have any PS2 port keyboards or mouses lying around.

Funny thing is tho, when i touch the keyboard or mouse, it lights for a second, and then stops lighting again.

Using a cheap microsoft keyboard and a razer naga mouse.

baseboard is an intel (dont remember the model number)

 
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Yes, the keyboard/mouse would work in the BIOS, just not windows. I seen this before.

Easiest option might be fresh install but then it might still have same problem. Guess we find out pretty quickly... it should work though as it would be running off the USB or DVD, not off the hdd.

Maybe USB was part of the 1% you didn't get
 
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Hi again.

Been feeling under the weather, so didn't have the energy to respond.


PC is running now. Tried switching the USB's around again, and put 2x keyboards and 2x mice.


So, i've run into another problem, which was the reason why i did the clean reset.

My CPU and from time to time, my HDD too, runs at 100%. With nothing going on. Been trying with the internet for ages, can't seem to find a fix, got any idea what to do?


Thanks!
 
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have you got latest drivers for motherboard? its a fresh reset as well, it needs to get updates and other things

idle is when PC runs background tasks since you appear to be not using PC, so it might be doing a defrag on hdd or indexing your PC

you can Download Process explorer and run it as admin (it comes from Microsoft so its safe)

the default view is tree structure meaning like your task manager screen, it will show what processes are under each service, but unlike the task manager, it shows the activity of each part so you can see what is eating your hdd

Private bytes = actual ram usage
Working set = Ram + page file usage << this is the column that is likely to show hdd activity

This page shows what all the colours and headings mean, link at bottom of it shows how to use it to find problems. You can right click headers and run an av scan from within the program.

you can set it to replace task manager, you can right click the header row and add extra columns, I would go to I/O process and add reads/writes ad that will show hdd activity. You can move the columns around so you can see hdd activity right along side CPU if you want
 
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Thank you for your fast reply, you're a lifesaver!

HDD is running just fine now.

Thing is, the CPU usage is spread out on normal tasks, but the tasks are using too much, compared to what it normally would.. "Task manager 60% - system interrupts 70% - firefox 30%" etc etc..
 
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Its probably drivers, need to figure out what motherboard you have.

can you download and run speccy free version, it will tell us what motherbaord you have. run it and in the left column it will show a summary of your PC, you can highlight it all and copy/paste into here if you like

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/fix-high-cpu-usage-caused-system-interrupts/
 
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Okay, so motherboard is Sandy Bridge, Intel DH67CL, (LGA1155).

I updated it now, and restarted the PC, nothing new..

Got the driver MEI_ALLOS_8.1.0.1248_1.5m.
 
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Thank you alot for your help, and have a nice evening.

Will keep trying here.

Can't seem to find any windows 10 drivers for it, barely any for older windows.. Probably because of intel not producing baseboards anymore!

Thanks.
 
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I was surprised Intel made lga 1155 boards, till I saw it was made in 2011. Its only just out of reach. I wonder if you have the latest BIOS (or should I say, the last) as it could help too.

You can download a program called Driver Booster and use it as a guide to find drivers. I wouldn't trust it to install any but it can recommend ones you are missing, and then just need to search for them. << i wouldn't normally recommend this as it can install the wrong drivers, hence reason I suggested to just use it as a guide

edit: brainfreeze
 
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Yes, it's an older computer, bought it around 2011-2012. Upgraded to MSI GTX 970 4gb twinfrozen not long ago tho.
besides that it's all 2011-2012 original 😉

Yeah, i was thinking about that, but as you said, they tend to do alot of harm, i'll try and get it as a guide, and skim through it, to see what i missed.

Btw, i did another reset today (not clean) since i now have a USB problem, which i never had before.

The normal ports i use, wont work, and the thing is, the other 2 i now use, which was the only ones that worked,
suddenly stopped working today. I have some problems with my computer freezing from time to time, no idea why, but after the second time it did it today, i noticed that it wasn't a freeze, but simply the USB ports that stopped working, hence the reset. (Other USB ports still doesn't work after the reset) gonna have to look into it later.

Being very unlucky with computers atm. Just bought my girlfriend an older one, which i placed my old GTX 560 1gb into, but it didn't fit! So had to move the motherboard, and some other modifications, plus all the minor things besides that, and now this stuff with mine too, i usually enjoy fixing the PC's even tho it takes time, and i don't have that much knowledge about it, besides from what i learned by trying to do it myself, but it's getting a bit blah now.
 
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if it only started happening after you updated the MEI file from Intel, its possible there was a USB drive there you should have upgraded to as well. The MEI file manages the chipset so perhaps its not compatible with the USB drivers you were using as well. But if it still does it after a reset, um...

You might be on the newest bios since its dated 12th April 2012. check in speccy again and see if bios number is 0160, otherwise the update file is on this page under download type BIOS

My last PC was made in 2006, that PC you have isn't that old in comparison. Its a shame Intel didn't support it and give it win 10 drivers, though for most part win 8 drivers are okay. Not sure how Intel work their chip family numbers out as my PC is LGA 1150, yet yours is higher (that is just confusing)

You might be best getting a shop to look at it, it could be something else is going bad.
 
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It is very strange, and semi anoying, since this baseboard should be with me much longer (hopefully)
but yeah, the market is what the market is..

It happened after the clean reset, where i restarted it after it went idle at 99%..

BUT! I installed driverbooster, and downloaded drivers i needed, and USB ports (the normal ones i usually use) Is working again. hmmm.

No change to the 100% CPU tho, still. I had this problem before, and i did ALOT of stuff to try and fix it, and it did get fixed, BUT embarassed to say, i don't remember how i fixed it, or if it maybe picked up a driver later on, that got rid of it, wouldn't be able to say.


Computer was running super, before i did the clean reset, i just wanted more. After i upgraded to my GTX, i rammed the graphics in battlefront up to ultra, and it ran like a dream,(unlimited powaaah) there was a few other settings, motion blur etc i wanted to max out too, and it had a SLIGHT FPS problem, and yeah, that's why i did the reset, also because i had so many games and other stuff i wasn't using. Greed i suppose..

BIOS: Versio BLH6710H.86A.0076.2010.1115.1959, so from what i see, it should be up to date..



 
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maybe bios is right, i can't tell as INtel just calls it 0160 which doesn't seem to match your codes. See if DB suggests anything else

the strange percentages of CPU usage is odd. interrupts are drivers and if you just did a reset, did you reinstall MEI whatever it was.
 
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