Windows 10: Resetting PC problem via windows and media creation tool

The chkdsk command when run with switches /x /f /r typically runs up to a number in the low teens. It remains there until the fix and recover is completed. On a 750 GB HD it can take 4 hours. The larger the drive or the more issues found the longer the test.
There were no major problems found or fixed in the above results.

Sometimes settings needed to be modified in order to text the RAM using Memtest86+ version 5.01
These are some of the trial and error modifications:

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Note
If you have fast boot or ultra fast boot enabled in your UEFI firmware settings, then you will need to temporarily disable fast boot or ultra fast boot to be able to boot from a USB.

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1. Try another USB stick
2. Try all USB ports (2.0 and 3.0)
3. Maybe when using UEFI Bios you have to temporarily switch to Legacy in BIOS settings
4. Turn off temporarily fast boot, secure boot, CSM if enabled


For startup and recovery > settings > system failure:
a) un-check automatically restart
b) make sure that write debugging information displays: automatic memory dump

 

Started the mem test. I couldn’t boot from USB so I M running it from a dvd.

how do I know how ,any passes? Is it the number of hashtags?

 

On the right side it displays
RAM
Timings
Pass
Follow the numbers in the Pass
If there is just 1 error you an abort testing.
The testing can be ran overnight and viewed the next day.
When the testing is complete please use a camera or smart phone camera to take a picture and post the image into the thread.
It sometimes takes passes into the 20s to find malfunctioning RAM.
So the longer the test the better the testing conditions.

 

Cheers, I just thought it was strange it had been running a while with no passes. I’ll let it run for tonight

 

How long should I let this go for?

 

Hi,
You're on pass #16 you can close it now 0 errors.

 

Memtest86 + version 5.01
8GB RAM, 16 passes = pass

 

Hi zbook, so after carrying out the above, everything seems fine? (Apart from having an old PC)

were rhe crashes 8 was having down to drivers?

 

When Memtest86+ version 5.01 is in use there is minimal to no Windows activity.
So monitoring the computer environment restarts after the completion of the test.
The computer can now be evaluated for stability /instability knowing that RAM passed.
Post #18 had displayed the BSOD with the misbehaving Nvidia graphics driver.

Use the computer (games, etc.) and in a few days post a new zip.
At any time if there is a BSOD run the beta log collector and post a zip into the thread for troubleshooting.
log collector v2-beta08.zip