My BIOS calls it quick boot, and I turned it off when I was troubleshooting a memory upgrade a few months ago. Sure enough, a RAM check LED stayed on during boot, and I put the old RAM back and solved that problem. It also turns out that you can't find a 32 GB DDR3 upgrade with CAS 7 in stock anywhere, so I'm staying with my 16 GB with CAS 7.
Whoops, I missed the tutorial. I have looked at it now, and I did execute "powercfg /h off". I don't have a sleep button, and hybernation isn't enabled, so a lot of buttons and options shown in the tutorial don't appear on my Power Options screens.
One thing that I'm concerned about is leaving "sleep" checked in Shutdown Options.
If you don't plan to sleep your PC that's fine. I find sleep very useful to save power and wake up my PC fast vs wasting time powering down and up if it's a desktop or stationary laptop with power connected all the time. You should give sleep a try- you don't have to use it when not convenient.
If you don't plan to sleep your PC that's fine. I find sleep very useful to save power and wake up my PC fast vs wasting time powering down and up if it's a desktop or stationary laptop with power connected all the time. You should give sleep a try
I was wondering why I needed to power down my motherboard in order to get the computer to boot.
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Was having trouble getting Windows to boot, and, as I have posted here, usually recovered by booting to a recovery thumb drive or DVD, asking to repair boot issues, and then selecting exit to Windows. Installed WU KB5006738 and nothing would get Windows to boot.
Tried reinstalling Windows from a rescue thumb drive created by a Microsoft download. It wouldn't accept the option of keeping my files and applications because there was an incomplete Windows Update on the system drive. The Macrium Reflect boot repair didn't do it, either.
I have an Acronis full backup only a few days old. I'm working on a project with a deadline in a couple of weeks and need its files, even since the backup. Found a way to do this online: boot to rescue media, select the option to open a command console, run notepad.exe, and use its File -> Open menu with "Send to" to copy folders to another thumb drive. You may need to run 'bcdedit | find "osdevice" ' to find your system disk. This is huge. Remember it, if you don't have another workaround to recover files from a bricked Windows computer.
The plan is to restore the system disk using Acronis, disable Windows Update, and reinstall Windows with the option keeping my files (and perhaps application installations) from a recovery media created by a Microsoft download. It's a 21H1 build, probably the first one since the file date is a few months back.
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Got the computer back by an Acronis full restore from a backup just a couple of days old. I saved the few files that I needed by using notepad under Windows RE, by using its Open menu as a mini-file manager to copy a few folders to a thumb drive. I'm continuing the work on another computer. I've disabled Windows Update on the Windows computer until after my project's deadline. I'm working out how to mirror my project files between the Windows computer and my other computer using a NAS that they both see.
Looking at my Windows laptop, the reason that it stopped booting after its last WU was that the Microsoft display adapter was "updated" to one that doesn't see external displays (including my KVMA switch), doesn't support the laptop's screen resolution, and won't update. The laptop's current Windows 10 build won't execute the manufacturer's driver installer, which was written for Windows 8. I'm looking at backing out of its last WU.
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