Recommend hardware changes for upgrading from Win-7 to Win-10

It doesn't make financial sense to build anything under $500. You can buy a pc with back to school specials. You could have saved more with sales tax holiday last week in texas.

Buying a computer system is an easy (lazy) way out, The challenge is in assembling one - and do it with customized components. That way I'm not forced to use whatever quality of components Dell or HP sell as a package. Yes, it may cost a little bit more, but the satisfaction that goes with it is worth it. The experience also prepares me to troubleshoot if something in the computer starts to act up -- with help from members of the Forum, of course !!!

The problem with your situation is that you have a 11 year old motherboard with aging capacitors and they may go bad at any time. You have an old GPU with a Windows 10 driver that dated 3 years ago. Power supply with aging capacitors.

I haven't checked whether your current cpu got the spectre and meltdown fixes. Then you have to find out whether any cpu that is compatible with your current motherboard have spectre and meltdown fixes.

So the only thing I keep is the computer case. But even that is not worth it because new $30 cases have fans everywhere (especially nobody have optical drives anymore).

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Intel does not offer any spectre or meltdown fixes to Core 2 Duo's and Quad's CPU's (wolfdale and yorkfield).

https://newsroom.intel.com/wp-conten...e-guidance.pdf

Can't update to a core 2 quad cpu.

Bree
I followed your suggestions (2nd Aug 19) for installing Win-10. Made the bootable flash drive successfully through the media creation tool. But when I attempted to upgrade and activate to Win-10 (64 bit) from within Win-7 (Pro-32 bit), I got the following error message:

Error # OxC1900101-Ox20017. " The installation failed in the SAFE_OS phase with an error during BOOT operation"

I read the diagnostics under this error number and carried out the proposed fixes, i.e. update Win-7, uninstall Malwarebyte antivirus, disconnect all external hardware, e.g. printer, scanner, external hard drives. I then tried to repeat the steps to do the upgrade through the Win-10 bootable flash drive as before. Got the same error message.
Appreciate any further comments and suggestions as to (a) what does a failure in the SAFE_OS during boot operation mean, (b) what can I do to solve it. Is this anything to do with the hardware in my computer? I listed these in my first posting above.
Thanks for any help

n2bn2b said:

Error # OxC1900101-Ox20017. " The installation failed in the SAFE_OS phase with an error during BOOT operation"

I read the diagnostics under this error number and carried out the proposed fixes, i.e. update Win-7, uninstall Malwarebyte antivirus, disconnect all external hardware, e.g. printer, scanner, external hard drives. I then tried to repeat the steps to do the upgrade through the Win-10 bootable flash drive as before. Got the same error message.

This is usually a driver problem. See if this document from Microsoft helps....

Code	0xC1900101 - 0x20017

Cause

A driver has caused an illegal operation. Windows was not able to migrate the driver, resulting in a rollback of the operating system. This is a SafeOS boot failure, typically caused by drivers or non-Microsoft disk encryption software.

Mitigation

Ensure that all that drivers are updated. Open the Setuperr.log and Setupact.log files in the %windir%\Panther directory, and then locate the problem drivers. For more information, see Understanding Failures and Log Files. Update or uninstall the problem drivers.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...ion-procedures


For help in analysing Setuperr.log and Setupact.log see the section on Log Files.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...rade/log-files

Bree, Thanks for your suggestions. Here is what all I tried, without success - so far. I did a full WIn-7 update including all optional updates to make sure that if any of them dealt with driver updates it might fix the error 0xC900101-0x20017. Got the same error message. I also opened the WIndowupdate.diagcab and used its non-professional diagnostic tool. Got a message saying that it automatically fixed update code. It came with 2 messages. (1) the Service Registration was missing or corrupt & it is now fixed. (2) the problems installing recent updates are now fixed. I tried updating to Win-10 again using my bootable flash drive as before. it downloaded the update 100% and went to restart Windows. But it did not power up . So I am presuming it is the boot failure that you mentioned in your earlier posting.
I opened the Setuperr.log and Setupact.log but I am not knowledgeable enough to interpret them. I am copying both as attachments. Appreciate your help in analyzing and suggesting a fix. Thanks

n2bn2b said:

I opened the Setuperr.log and Setupact.log but I am not knowledgeable enough to interpret them. I am copying both as attachments...

I don't seem to find anything relevant in those logs. Where did you copy them from?

I think the logs we need should be found in $Windows.~BT\Sources\Rollback, there should also be a setupapi.dev.log that may be useful.

sorry I got those two from the wrong folder. Reattaching the setupact & setuperr logs from the rollback folder. Couldn't find setupapi.dev.log, but only setupapi.offline.log. This may not provide the relevant info

n2bn2b said:

Reattaching the setupact & setuperr logs from the rollback folder.

OK, thanks. Can you now look for setupact/setuperr logs in C:\Windows\Panther please.

Bree
Here are the setupact/setuperr logs in C:\Windows~BT\Panther


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