My windows 10 laptop will be working fine, then all of a sudden screen goes blank, the noise as if you have inserted a USB stick or something in plays, the screen comes back, then off, then on but whatever program you were running crashes. It's sporadic...any suggestions? Short of throwing it out the window??

I use my mac mainly but fired up the windows one for some other bits I can't do on the mac.

Check your event logs after it crashes and see what caused it. Most likely a corrupted driver if you have the install or created restore discs try reinstalling the drivers.

It's doing more flipping updates...possible cause. Why do windows PCs always need to do updates. Taking forever!!!

MS now saving up the updates for a big monthly update.

 

Takes ages, hours even. And my PC running a SSD can boot in about 10sec.

Well the issue I was having is fixed! Now playing planet coaster. And wow.

Ad said "That's why mum goes to Iceland". My take, "that's why I stick with Win 7".

Still plenty of issues with Win10, an update bjorked my sons laptop, corrupted the display driver, so he has to connect it to an external monitor; of course installing a WORKING driver isnt allowed, on the next update cycle Micro$hite install the defective driver again.

 

I gave him a spare copy of Win7 last night, bye bye Win10.

 

(This isnt on a Brand with known Win10 issues, but a 3 y/o DELL).

Edited 16 November, 20169 yr by GentleGiant

It's doing more flipping updates...possible cause. Why do windows PCs always need to do updates. Taking forever!!!

 

Don't worry, my Macs are just as bad and at least with Windows it doesn't decide to just forget your logon password so you have no alternative than to reinstall the whole operating system again losing everything you had on the drive. Must be why Apple are so keen to push cloud storage.

Don't worry, my Macs are just as bad and at least with Windows it doesn't decide to just forget your logon password so you have no alternative than to reinstall the whole operating system again losing everything you had on the drive. Must be why Apple are so keen to push cloud storage.

 

Vendors love cloud because it's a chance to get you onto their subscription model. Pays much better in the long run.

 

The customer is effectively locked into paying because it's difficult to move your stuff away and if you you stop paying you'll lose your stuff. With the added bonus you can crank up the prices in year two (just like insurance).

No way would Apple ever do that to it's loyal customers... oh too late.

 

Luckily I work off the two locations logic with anything digital. In that if you don't have at least two separate copies then you don't have any at all so I use Dropbox, Apple Storage, NAS and a backup harddrive with all my media and docs on at least 3 of the locations. 

Sounds like it was a display driver problem.

 

We recently bought one of these little guys:

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Beelink-BT3-MINI-PC-TV-BOX-4K-Smart-Media-Player-Intel-Atom-Windows-10-WIFI-HDMI-/162017858472?hash=item25b90453a8:g:UQYAAOSwAvJW9NoV

 

Although paid less than £100 shipped from UK.

 

It has for the past 2 or 3 weeks been constantly trying to update to the latest big windows 10 update. Then finally managed it the other day!

 

Always been an issue with windows have their updates!

Windows don't push the updates to all machines at the same time.

 

My desktop always gets them a few weeks before my Lenovo 100s netbook.

Still plenty of issues with Win10, an update bjorked my sons laptop, corrupted the display driver, so he has to connect it to an external monitor; of course installing a WORKING driver isnt allowed, on the next update cycle Micro$hite install the defective driver again.

I gave him a spare copy of Win7 last night, bye bye Win10.

(This isnt on a Brand with known Win10 issues, but a 3 y/o DELL).

Go to the Dell website and install the correct Dell drivers.

Dell 'adapt' their drivers so the same driver from elsewhere doesn't work for pretty much every piece of hardware inside.

Wifi is the usual one that stops working

Go to the Dell website and install the correct Dell drivers.

Dell 'adapt' their drivers so the same driver from elsewhere doesn't work for pretty much every piece of hardware inside.

Wifi is the usual one that stops working

 

 

Read the second part, as soon as MS does a scan, it detects the driver isnt the official MS one, and overwrites it again; this isnt too much of a pain if he is near a monitor he can borrow, but when he is out and it is plugged into a £3 million CNC machine running a job, and it suddenly reboots to a blank screen mid-job.....

 

Of course he could disable WIFI, so update cant run, but who is to say MS wont do what they did with the Win10 forced upgrade? Schedule it to wake the machine and install while you arent looking.

 

MS have a number of Win10 shafts most people dont know about yet.

 

1/ If you havent registered an account for your Win10 install, you will have to pay if you ever need to reinstall it - even if the hardware hasnt changed.

 

2/ The "Home" versions have an artificial RAM limit that the PRO and Enterprise versions dont.

 

3/ "For the lifetime of your device", in other words, change too much during an upgrade, or over a number of upgrades, and you will find yourself paying then £xxx to use your PC.

 

Luckily, I am not a big gamer - and the games I do play run perfectly well on Win7; in fact I am planning a XP Pro build next week, to test out how several games cope, and so I can play some older games that dont work well on Win7 64

The files are exactly the same name, version and size. But installing the official manufacturer one (which is what Windows update does) doesn't usually work on Dell kit.

Just use the official Dell updater app and you'll avoid this issue completely as it'll install the correct dell version so Windows update will see you have the latest version and skip installing it

The files are exactly the same name, version and size. But installing the official manufacturer one (which is what Windows update does) doesn't usually work on Dell kit.

Just use the official Dell updater app and you'll avoid this issue completely as it'll install the correct dell version so Windows update will see you have the latest version and skip installing it

 

AFAIK that is what he had done.

 

Past history now, the Laptop is back to Win7 64 bit Pro.

 

Luckily , for the people he works for, this problem only seems to happen on one specific model from Dell, although they were terribly amused to go into work one Monday and find the entire company network had had Win10 installed late Friday night.

 

Luckily, the bespoke software they control the CNCs etc with, was still working.