10-22-2015, 08:01 PM
Hello All,
New here (so hello again), found your site via YouTube vids and been very helpful so far for a few odds and ends... anyway onto the real quesiton and post.
I upgraded to Win 10 (from 8.1) torwards the end of Aug15, a few weeks after the release and all went well about 4 weeks after this I had a Blue screen crash (the new type) pale blue/sad smilley :-( and could not then load windows'
With the help of a friend I restored back to 8.1, and proceeded to then do another Win 10 install from a "clean" 1st C:\ drive (a 256GB SSD) -- the Win10 install succeded without any issue and I then proceeded to load all my apps to this drive. My 2nd drive main disk is a 1TB 'normal' disk and has all of my data on this.
After about a week up and running again the system then blue screened again -- not the same error message, however Win 10 does not seem to like something on my PC.
I'm back now again to Win 8.1 and everything is stable. I had to reload the Apps onto my 1st drive after a restore of Windows.
Since all of this I've now take another 1st disk image of my C:\ drive with Acronis -- fully loaded with apps and running OK.
I'm not so worried about the data (2nd disk) as I have this backed up to a NAS on the router and also to Dropbox....
So (and perhaps getting to the point), I do want to move to Win 10 at some point, howeve with the above have decided to wait a little longer.
What else can I do to "prepare" I've just installed a copy of "WhoCrashed" onto my machine incase but don't really know how I would get to the logs if the machine blue screen's again after a Win10 upgrade.
Now that I have images of my machine, I plane to update these on Win8.1 before my next upgrade and then a image of Win 10 after the upgarde but as above _should_ it crash again would not know how to recover without doing a restore (if you see what I mean).
Sadly (and stupidly) I did not take a note of the error codes that I kept from the previous attempts which I know I should but hey...... lesson learnt.
I have an inkinling the crash may have been caused by my Graphics card/driver, however this is more a hunch than anything.
Happy to post my PC specs (have these saved off from Speccy). Posted summary below (in a code window)
Sorry this 1st post is i) a little long, ii) a ramble and iii) about problems I have had and may well face again...
Hope someone can give me some pointers before I take the plunge again....
Many Thanks,
Brian
New here (so hello again), found your site via YouTube vids and been very helpful so far for a few odds and ends... anyway onto the real quesiton and post.
I upgraded to Win 10 (from 8.1) torwards the end of Aug15, a few weeks after the release and all went well about 4 weeks after this I had a Blue screen crash (the new type) pale blue/sad smilley :-( and could not then load windows'
With the help of a friend I restored back to 8.1, and proceeded to then do another Win 10 install from a "clean" 1st C:\ drive (a 256GB SSD) -- the Win10 install succeded without any issue and I then proceeded to load all my apps to this drive. My 2nd drive main disk is a 1TB 'normal' disk and has all of my data on this.
After about a week up and running again the system then blue screened again -- not the same error message, however Win 10 does not seem to like something on my PC.
I'm back now again to Win 8.1 and everything is stable. I had to reload the Apps onto my 1st drive after a restore of Windows.
Since all of this I've now take another 1st disk image of my C:\ drive with Acronis -- fully loaded with apps and running OK.
I'm not so worried about the data (2nd disk) as I have this backed up to a NAS on the router and also to Dropbox....
So (and perhaps getting to the point), I do want to move to Win 10 at some point, howeve with the above have decided to wait a little longer.
What else can I do to "prepare" I've just installed a copy of "WhoCrashed" onto my machine incase but don't really know how I would get to the logs if the machine blue screen's again after a Win10 upgrade.
Now that I have images of my machine, I plane to update these on Win8.1 before my next upgrade and then a image of Win 10 after the upgarde but as above _should_ it crash again would not know how to recover without doing a restore (if you see what I mean).
Sadly (and stupidly) I did not take a note of the error codes that I kept from the previous attempts which I know I should but hey...... lesson learnt.
I have an inkinling the crash may have been caused by my Graphics card/driver, however this is more a hunch than anything.
Happy to post my PC specs (have these saved off from Speccy). Posted summary below (in a code window)
Sorry this 1st post is i) a little long, ii) a ramble and iii) about problems I have had and may well face again...
Hope someone can give me some pointers before I take the plunge again....
Many Thanks,
Brian
Code:
Summary
Operating System
Windows 8.1 64-bit
CPU
Intel Core i7 4770K @ 3.50GHz 36 °C
Haswell 22nm Technology
RAM
8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 666MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. MAXIMUS VI HERO (SOCKET 1150) 28 °C
Graphics
NEC LCD1860NX (1280x1024@75Hz)
2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 (EVGA) 27 °C
Storage
1863GB Western Digital WDC WD2002FAEX-007BA0 (SATA) 33 °C
223GB OCZ-AGILITY3 (SSD) 30 °C
29GB Kingston DataTraveler 3.0 USB Device (USB)
Optical Drives
HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH24NSB0
LaCie Group SA LaCie 1394 DVD-R/RW+CD drive LUN 0. IEEE 1394 SBP2 Device
Audio
Realtek High Definition Audio