Windows 10: Window 10 installs just fine on old laptop, but won't boot after close down

Discus and support Window 10 installs just fine on old laptop, but won't boot after close down in Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade to solve the problem; I have tried to install Windows 10 on my old Asus U45jc laptop. I made a fresh install on a new ssd born with Windows 7 on the old hdd. The laptop... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade' started by Jens Chr Jensen, Apr 8, 2020.

  1. Window 10 installs just fine on old laptop, but won't boot after close down


    I have tried to install Windows 10 on my old Asus U45jc laptop. I made a fresh install on a new ssd born with Windows 7 on the old hdd.


    The laptop can boot in efi-mode, but it is just an option in the bios. I have tried to install Windows 10 in both efi and legacy, and unfortunately there is no difference. The following applies to both.


    No problem in making the usb or booting from it from either a gpt disk for efi or mbr disk for legacy. The installer works flawless, and after the installation I can make every setting I want and run any installed application. So if I never needed to close my laptop, there wouldn't be any problem.


    During the installation there are two reboots. As far as I can see on the activity LED's, both boot from the SSD, even if there also but apparently a little later is activity on the USB.


    But when I have made my settings and reboot the machine, it is dead - or almost.


    In the first few cases efi I got a log in screen, but both keyboards and a cabled one tried too were unresponsive and only the external monitor and the mouse worked. I used the mouse to get an on screen keyboard, and an inspection of the hardware my system is danish, not sure what it is called in the us version, but it is where you can see the hardware and drivers. Both keyboard drivers were marked as not working, and trying to update them, I was told that the best drivers were already installed.


    But as said - both keyboards and both displays worked perfectly during installation and in the installed system before it was closed down.


    I cannot, tell if the system installed in legacy mode boots at all it is trying a least, because there is just a black screen and nothing seems to work. The external monitor ask me to check the cable which is just fine and then goes into sleep mode. The built in monitor shows nothing at all. And the same is true, if the external monitor is unplugged.


    Asus has no drivers for the laptop later than for windows 8, but I can't see any reason why it shouldn't be able to run Windows 10 - the installer didn't protest during checking the machine, and the system ran smoothlessly untill it was closed down - also with the USB safely removed. Just to say that it didn't rely on the installation image.


    Any suggestion would be very much appreciated. Thank you in advance.


    Jens

    :)
     
    Jens Chr Jensen, Apr 8, 2020
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  2. P4-630 Win User

    windows 10 boot problems

    I had windows 10 installed on my old laptop, I also had a boot problem, but my HDD just stopped spinning and I was unable to load windows.
    It still had the Asus factory recovery partition which I used to reinstall windows 7.
    I found out that my HDD was fine in windows 7, nothing wrong with it, staying with windows 7 SP1 on this laptop and I stay with windows 8.1 on my main laptop.
    No windows 10 for me!
     
    P4-630, Apr 8, 2020
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  3. Windows 10 USB boot

    Hi there, am not a windows 10 expert. I have a pc in the bedroom on windows 10, I messed up the bootloader trying to fix the xp on that system.

    System wont boot, trying to repair via win 10 usb installer.

    Downloaded the media creation tool to install windows 10 installer on usb stick. Not compatible with a host of usb sticks I have. Tried the usb sticks that others use, but I think they use rufus; as the media creation tool by win 10 does not detect the usb stick.

    So quick question, the win10 machine i am trying to repair the bootloader is a win7 upgraded to win10.
    If i were to use the usb win10 installer to "repair installation" does the version of the iso downloaded via the media creation tool matter?

    There is three options:
    Windows 10
    Windows 10 Home
    Windows 10 N

    Also is there a step by step instead of using rufus as I want to try an alternative method of creating a usb win 10 installer. Preferably with more compatibility.

    System is a asus sabertooth 990 (r2?) with AMD phenom X 6.

    Also is there any other software I can load onto the usb that can repair the bootloader easily?
    That would be the ideal alternative. Thanks
     
    TRUELOVE95, Apr 8, 2020
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  4. Window 10 installs just fine on old laptop, but won't boot after close down

    Windows 10 random automatic repair after changing boot priority.

    Hello. So i have an Windows 10 Pro. Sometimes when i am changing in bios boot order from USB to HDD ( SDD ) windows starts booting with AUTOMATIC REPAIR and then restarting. Is this something with BIOS \ Windows 10 bug related? Tested on pc and on laptop , and sometimes it doing the same.


    Situation on PC first,listen:

    Few days ago after i change boot in UEFI BIOS from USB to SSD.
    Then Windows 10 showed at 1 boot Automatic Repair.
    When starting Windows 10 boot loader starts by "preparing automatic repair" and diagnosing pc.
    Interesting is that if I restart Windows (after procedure mentioned earlier) it will boot normally. This startup problem was occured only when starting system again after shutdown or restarted pc from windows.So i was needed 2 boots to boot properly to windows.
    But on pc, format was needed to remove completely issue and after format is fine.

    Pc :
    2x8gb Kingston Hyperx 1600mhz DDR3
    SSD samsung Evo 250 gb
    4790k stock
    Asus Sabertooth Z97 Mark 2 with UEFI BIOS


    Now laptop with old standard bios:
    On laptop i made the same operation, change boot from USB to HDD and on first boot Windows 10 shows Automatic Repair. But it happened once and i cant reproduce. No format was needed.

    laptop is very old with 2gb ram

    Why on pc format was needed when on laptop not?



    Thanks for suggestions.
     
    litwicki24, Apr 8, 2020
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