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WTF just happened?!
I did the free upgrade to Windows 10 about 4 days before it expired - July 26th, if I recall. There have been a few problems along the way, but everything was working when I left for school tonight.
I came back and the screen was dark and unresponsive. I usually have my PC set to turn the screen off after 10 minutes and sleep after 20. But nada. So I had to shut the UPS off and try rebooting.
It comes up and starts spinning wheels - saying I have an inaccessible boot device! I'm about to poop myself! Never seen anything like this before! Was Windows 10 doing it or what?!
This went on for awhile, with it trying to repair itself, then rebooting, etc. NOTHING was working and I was seeing my entire computing life since 1992 flash before my eyes!
It was trying repairs and hard drive stuff ( probably a scandisk? ) and then it would just stop dead with a black screen and I'd have to shut down power and try again! Frack!
Then on one of the reboots, the BIOS boot screen says I have a new CPU and need to configure it! What?!
So I go into BIOS and it says I have an Intel CPU! I'm freaking out, because I have an AMD CPU! WTF?!
So I played with rebooting some more, and finally tried some other options - one of which was starting Windows in safe mode. It came up!
So after that. I tried just rebooting it again, and it's STILL saying that I have a new CPU, but FINALLY it magically boots into the full Windows 10 system, just like nothing ever happened!
Over ALL these years, I've NEVER made a rescue disk or restore point or any of that, because everything was so darned reliable, but I'm not sure what the heck to do now.
I have two cloned removable HD's from the Win 7 system, if I recall. Should I fire up Acronis and do one of this Windows 10 system? But what if, when it reboots, it goes bonkers again.
I'm scared, folks! Not sure what to do now!
This Asus Essentio is 6 years old and I'm wondering if some hardware has become flaky now, and failed and then recovered. But if the CPU went, it wouldn't be saying Intel, it wouldn't do ANYTHING, I don't think!
It's 11 PM here in Denver and I need to turn in, but my whole computing life, including home based part time business is on this machine. Holy cow!