Hey guys... THANKS to all of you who have offered suggestions/help/etc!!!!!

Let's see... one said "system not verified". True... it's a friend's system and he screwed up "his first try" for...

Hi guys...

Tried (many times) the standard keystrokes at startup... F2 to BIOS, etc.

From most of what I've found on GOOGLE... Win10 has a FAST BOOT option which over-rides any manufacturer's...

Hi...

Have a Dell XPS 8300 which came with Win7 Home Premium. 10-12 days ago, finally got my system upgraded to Win10... but, after completing the password, all I get is a black screen.
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Here's some info on the AMD laptop

7/20/2015 2:00:17 PM
Acer / Aspire 5253 - 1
1ghz / AMD C-50 Processor / 2logical proc / 1proc / 64-bit
RAM = 4096mb
Bank 1 = BANK0, 2048mb, DIMM0, --...

Wow... A LOT of reading for me and then try out here!! But a little info (to help/hinder) on the above comments:

1. I selected the Netbook and AMD to try Win10 cause they are, basically,...

I've TWO PCs... a little N450 Atom Netbook and (so-so) AMD (4gb) laptop. Netbook came with Win7 Starter; laptop with Win8.0. I've loaded both up with Win7 Pro, then Ultimate, then Win8.0 Pro and...

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Installed 64bit (N450 is 64; N270 only 32)... only took like 45 min... so, two in a row. However, 64bit is WAY slower than (yesterday's) 32bit... so, once I finish here, I'm going back...

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Finally got Win10/10162 to install on my NETBOOK/ATOM. Strangest part was... ran right on thru in about 45-50 minutes!??? Going to start all over again tomorrow... run it 2-3...

Country...

Looks like you're in FLA?? Weeki Wachee here... hour north of Tampa

Steve

Hey Country... Really you appreciate your thoughts, advice, etc... just HATE when I can't solve my own problems... ugh.

The NETBOOK (atom cpu) is ONLY 32-bit; the AMD 64-bit CPU... which is why I...

Both SEEM to meet the minimum requirements... not smart enough about the display adapters; the ATOM has an "Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator 3150", the AMD an "AMD Radeon HD 6250 Graphics".
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Hi... tried the last two Win10 pre-releases... 32bit... downloaded the ISOs, burned to DVDs, and ran install:

1. On an ATOM processor... NETBOOK
2. On an AMD processor... full LAPTOP

ONCE,...

Thanks to both of you (ARC & RMONROE)!!! Couple of more comments... just as FYI in case anyone has more to offer:

1. ISOs would DEFINITELY be the answer I would hope for. As I said... TWO Win8...

Hi... hope this is proper place for my (in future) questions:

I've 2 laptops; Toshiba came with Win8... not upgraded to Win8.1; then a Samsung, came with Win 8, upgraded to Win8.1. Neither came...