Windows 10 results in repeated Internal Power Failure in Dell Inspiron

I disabled only the AMD Radeon R7 M265 Series driver and now It's working very fine :):chuckle:
Of Course I did that in the safe mode using the method stated below

MGR said:

Same issue here, same laptop... Am going to try the following:

Internal Power Error - upgrading Windows 10 - HP Support Forum - 5168643
All you need is to:

1. Login to safe mode: (I kept shift held when I restarted from the login screen a few times)
a. Windows + R
b. msconfig
c. Boot -> Safe mode -> minimal -> OK -> Restart

2. Uninstal drivers
a. Right click on My Computer
b. Devices
c. Uninstal Graphic and Network drivers - it can be one of them
Try to uninstal all possible drivers
d. Restart PC

3. Return from safe mode
a. Windows + R
b. msconfig
c. Boot -> unclick Safe mode -> OK -> Restart

Will let you guys know how it goes, safe mode works but only the touch screen....

I can't even manage to get pc to select safe mode on next boot before it crashes. Any suggestions?

Did you try the F12 Button during the boot?

Yes. But that doesn't seem to offer me safe mode, just non secure boot. Thanks for replying, much appreciated.

I think you can try Bootable Windows USB

May be you can find one here
Rufus - Create bootable USB drives the easy way

anthonyonten said:

I can't even manage to get pc to select safe mode on next boot before it crashes. Any suggestions?

Try to push the F8 key a lot of times until it takes you to the recovery screen, no matter if it shows you only the F2 and F12. I had the same problem as you.

FINALLY GOT IT WORKING.... I have the 4k Screen Edition of the Laptop

It's such a pain but I suppose Windows 10 only really released a day ago so these things will happen. It seems the M270 card is not a very popular one, and if you download the Official Windows 10 drivers from AMD and try to install them it still detects as M265. That's what the whole problem seems to be based around. Not sure if it's Dell or AMD needs to fix it but anyway, here's what I did.

1. Fresh Windows 10 Install from Memory Stick
2. Booted In, will download updates automatically and no way to stop the Blue Screen eventually coming up with INTERNAL_POWER_ERROR
3. Insert the Windows 10 Memory Stick again and boot from it.
4. Select Language and on next page at the bottom - Repair Your PC
5. Go to Troubleshoot - Advanced Options - Command Prompt
6. Type C: then ENTER
7. Type "BCDEDIT /SET {DEFAULT} BOOTMENUPOLICY LEGACY" (This will enable F8 during startup)
8. Boot into Safe Mode (Restart Laptop and Press F8 repeatedly), the Laptop may try to uninstall updates first and reboot into normal mode again .. Be patient and keep rebooting until you get into Safe Mode proper
9. Go to Device Manager, and right click on AMD Radeon M265 and Disable
10. Reboot and laptop should be stable, but you'll only have 1 graphics card... Continue with instructions to enable both.
11. Download the Windows 8.1 Drivers from the Dell Website
12. Install 7zip and Right Click on the downloaded file and Extract to a New Folder
13. In Device Manager, Right Click on the Disabled AMD Radeon M265 and Properties
14. Go to Driver Tab and Update Driver... Browse My Computer... Let Me Pick... Have Disk
15. Navigate to Extracted Folder - Packages - Drivers - Display - WB6A_INF - Double Click on c7176477
16. Windows should only show AMD Radeon M270 so select it
17. Once Installed run Windows Update and Check for New Updates, It should now see the card as the proper AMD Radeon M270 and download the Windows 10 Latest Driver (on my machine a black bar appeared along the bottom and the Intel Driver in Device Manager reported a problem, but a restart will fix that)
18. At this point all the Drivers should work fine with no more blue screens, but you still can't right click on the desktop in order to configure which apps use which graphics card and you'll have no Catalyst Control Centre, etc..
19. To fix this Download the latest AMD Drivers for Windows 10 (at time of writing this was 15.7.1)
20. Start the Installation Process - Select Custom Installation and UNTICK AMD DISPLAY DRIVER (Failing to do this will revert to the AMD Radeon M265 Driver again .. IF this happens hurry to Device Manager and Disable so as not to cause a blue screen, and Windows will remember the M270 Drivers it installed before ;-) Good Luck)
21. After installing Catalyst Control Centre the Installer will complain about "Warnings" but you can ignore them.
22. ALL DONE You can now Configure Switchable Graphics, and you'll have the Windows 10 Driver for both graphics cards installed

I assume this is more an AMD Fault than either Dell or Microsoft since AMD's own installer detects the card incorrectly, it is possible the card shares Hardware Device Info DEV SUBSYS etc.. too closely with the M265, but there's really no excuse. I assume when AMD releases a new driver it will quickly be adopted by Windows update and should fix it ... Here's hoping

kanzuri said:

Ok, so here isa recapitulation to this problem.

Symptoms:

When updating from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 in a Dell Inspiron 7000 series, and then trying to log in to your Microsoft account, it appears a blue screen showing an INTERNAL_POWER_ERROR. Then the computer restarts, and if you try to log in again, it happens again.

Diagnostic:

This happens because when updating from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10, Windows update downloads the wrong drivers. It downloads AMD Radeon R7 M265 driver instead of AMD Radeon R7 M270 driver, which causes the INTERNAL_POWER_ERROR when running Windows.

Solution:
see above

Great information, got my machine back on track, but after installing the AMD driver, the Intel driver reported problems, and it shifted into a slightly cropped mode. Had to update the Intel driver to fix it. Now we'll see if everything stays stable for awhile.

Hello there,
I'm trying to use the prompt command which you mentioned above to activate the F8, but it's giving me message
System cannot find the path specified
Will you please help me to run my system into the safe mode, so I can get rid of this AMD driver issue.

Your help would be much appreciated.

Thanks