I'm running Windows 10 on a new desktop (e.g. not an upgrade from Windows 7), with an SSD harddrive.
It crashes with a blue screen of death every time I boot now. (This happened after Skyrim crashed and I did a force reboot.)
I've created a bootable thumbdrive, and using F11 at the splash screen I can tell it to boot off the thumb drive. Sometimes it does boot to the screen with repair options, but often it crashes before then.
On those times I can get it to boot to the screen with repair options, I've tried several things. I've tried to repair windows, I've tried to do a reset, I've tried to open a command line (and sometimes succeed), and I've tried to tell it to start in safe mode (never works.) But no matter what I try, the result is another crash.
The closest I've come is twice I have gotten as far as it asking me to choose which system point to roll back to. I choose one. It briefly flashes a message that says "gathering a few things" (or something like that), then the screen goes black, then it reboots to the splash screen and then crashes again.
All these blue screens of death throw up a bunch of different error codes: IIRQ not equal to zero, the kernal whatever, clock time out, and a few others.
Any suggestions?
If this caused by bad drivers, should I try to unplug hardware (this is a homebuilt machine)? If so, which hardware? Also, I do have another desktop that runs Vista. Would hooking up that old HD let me boot Vista and would that then let me access what is wrong in Win 10?
Much thanks to anyone who can help.
It crashes with a blue screen of death every time I boot now. (This happened after Skyrim crashed and I did a force reboot.)
I've created a bootable thumbdrive, and using F11 at the splash screen I can tell it to boot off the thumb drive. Sometimes it does boot to the screen with repair options, but often it crashes before then.
On those times I can get it to boot to the screen with repair options, I've tried several things. I've tried to repair windows, I've tried to do a reset, I've tried to open a command line (and sometimes succeed), and I've tried to tell it to start in safe mode (never works.) But no matter what I try, the result is another crash.
The closest I've come is twice I have gotten as far as it asking me to choose which system point to roll back to. I choose one. It briefly flashes a message that says "gathering a few things" (or something like that), then the screen goes black, then it reboots to the splash screen and then crashes again.
All these blue screens of death throw up a bunch of different error codes: IIRQ not equal to zero, the kernal whatever, clock time out, and a few others.
Any suggestions?
If this caused by bad drivers, should I try to unplug hardware (this is a homebuilt machine)? If so, which hardware? Also, I do have another desktop that runs Vista. Would hooking up that old HD let me boot Vista and would that then let me access what is wrong in Win 10?
Much thanks to anyone who can help.