Windows 10: Is upgrading to Win 10 to much of a risk?

I do remember it now that you mention it DavidE, it did foul up some HDD's. Although as mentioned in some of the posts in the link you put up, it was a preview version, nobody would expect a "bricked" anything from installing an OS, even a preview version. But being a preview, it comes with all the risks of a beta.

Frying (in the OP's words) a CPU is completely different, and it's an OS that has been RTM. The biggest problem IMO is/was the bullying by MS to get people upgraded to W10, whether by choice, or deception.

 

Lets say the Windows 10 destroyed 1,000 CPUs. There are currently more than 350 MILLION devices running Windows 10. So that means 1,000 CPUs out of 350 million is .00029% that got destroyed by Windows 10. (and there is NO evidence that Windows 10 has destroyed a single CPU, let alone 1,000 CPUs.) Your chances of getting struck by lighting in your life is about 5X greater than .00029%. So, personally, I would be way more concerned about getting struck by lightning than the upgrade to Windows 10 physically destroying your CPU.

 

I understand what you are saying.
This thread did seem to change from Fried CPU to any hardware damage
That's why i posted what i did.
It might explain why the OP was warned, it might just be old info, rumor, fact, etc.

I've seen a Windows program make changes to BIOS and brick a motherboard.
If a Windows program can do that, i believe Windows can also make BIOS changes, and do who knows what.

I never said it was likely, just that people have reported problems, nothing more, nothing less.

 

I'm "handicapped," and taking my giant desktop computer in to the Microsoft store is an impossibility. I'm isolated and old. Even if as little as 12 computers has these kind of severe problems, I can't take the chance! A couple of people did say they would help me but then dropped the ball. I can't even leave my house right now because my power wheelchair is in the shop... and it's been there for months. If this stuff is more like loch ness monster sightings than real happenings, how can I know that? And what about the totally unbelievable forced upgrades??? I got that dialogue box, trying to do the upgrade on my computer but I used "Never 10" to hold the new OS at bey until I was ready to let it in. Now I don't think I wanna let it in 'til I understand what's happening!

Even in a best-case-scenario, I'm gonna have to do the install without the Windows magnifier. I can't see any text on my screen without the magnifier. I have a workaround but now with this new issue, I think I might have to hold off until things become much safer. It'll cost me a hundred buck... but that's much better than losing a $5000 computer. I was hoping somebody would say that a clean install had to be very safe, as long as it's done without the in place upgrade. But I just donno what to think. This is beyond the scope of my knowledge.



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Any failed BIOs flash will brick a motherboard. I've seen reports of failed Winflash attempts bricking a motherboard. Other than that, I don't know of any other software that will alter BIOS settings to the point that its corrupted. I still don't class that as Windows destroying hardware. I personally, would never ever use Winflash to flash my BIOs. Anyway, lets see what the OP posts back with and go from there.

 

There is a huge difference between what an external program does when running under Windows 10 and what Windows 10 is even possible to do by itself.

 

Huh?? Can you supply some link to back up an OS changing anything in the BIOS?

And even if it could do that there is no way it can fry a processor. The only way that I'm aware of to fry a processor is heat and I don't see how an OS upgrade can run the temp of the processor so high it would fry it.

 

Given your situation I wouldn't bother upgrading.

Play it safe..

 

No i can't supply a link.
No it was not a BIOS flash.
It was caused by a Partition Management program making Disk Structure changes.
Believe it or not, If something can go wrong, it will, ...
This is off-topic, let's drop it.

 

There are overclocking utilities that I "think" can do that. But they are provided by the OEM who made the motherboard, as far as I know anyway. ASUS had one that I briefly played with years ago. My motherboard locked up and wouldn't post. No damage, I just had to reset BIOS to defaults. I quickly abandoned that utility. Anyway, its not something Windows would do all by itself on a stock install/upgrade.
The only time I've ever seen Windows alter a BIOS setting was when setting up a Windows To Go drive. It offers to reboot to that drive when your finished creating it to see if it works. I assume its altering the BIOS boot order. It only does it for that one boot anyway. Then goes back to defaults. I'm not even 100% sure it actually changes the BIOS boot order. It may just point the Windows boot loader to the drive that one time. The BIOS is proprietary so its basically a hands off as far as Microsoft is concerned.

 

This is one of those topics that will illicit all kinds of "what ifs". It's just human nature to speculate.

 

I donno. Ever since I got my system with Win 8 installed, something was different. Yucky! Right down to the pictures of flowers on my desktop! They actually look like MONSTERS!!!!!! *Smile And the new logo? They turned a nice graceful logo into a stiff depressing ugly "nothing!" *Smile My files continually disappear! I'm denied access to files! And Win 8.1 isn't much better. Right now, all my drawings are gone! Where the h_ _l are they? I can't believe the grass looks greener on the Mac side now!!!!!! If I didn't have to use the damned magnifier, I run to Linux! (And please don't suggest third party magnifiers. None of'em work for me.)

Anyway, unless I can find an explanation I can understand, I think I have to stick with Win 8.1 for now. I had hoped a clean install would mean I could avoid all this but I just donno enough here. Depressing. *Sad Sorry. A company that forces you to upgrade, even though they know that really bad things could happen to "some" people, in my mind, is totally capable of not giving a crap if my life is ripped apart when my computer stops working, forcing me to watch TV 'til I kick the bucket. *Smile

 

What happened to everything suggested in this thread you started June 2nd ?

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It is called technophobia. Even if there were 1,000 documented and proven cases of Windows 10 physically destroying computers (which there isn't), there remains more than 349,999,000 devices not destroyed by Windows 10.

 

I never heard of this kind of damage occurring from an upgrade. But if there was just ONE computer destroyed from the upgrade, that's too many. If it's yours, and you can't replace it because you don't have the money, how would you feel?