*I'm about to mark this thread as solved*

I know the computer is not booting. There's no indication it is- we couldn't get a POST screen, fans revving, no difference even after waiting for several...

Indeed- I'll try one last solution and if that doesn't work I'll assume the board's bad.

Thanks everyone for your feedback.

We were unable to get into the BIOS setup as we couldn't get the board to POST. I don't know any specifics on the PSU- it's probably the one that came with the case and is listed as a "SFX 450W PSU"...

The 1070 was indeed removed completely from the machine. This made no difference.

Thanks for you feedback, however when I looked at the computer I did this and sadly it did not fix the problem.

My friend has a computer he built. It was working fine until recently since he's having this problem where the computer won't boot. I had a look at it today:

Specs of this machine:

Motherboard:...

You're after "VMWare Workstation Player *12*" (12 is their latest version). Their website is pretty confusing- I won't lie, I've gotten lost on it looking for it as well.

It seems that this is the...

Might be a driver problem- Windows update, in addition to grabbing you the latest updates, also gets/ updates device drivers. This has caused problems for me beforehand with different devices.
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Thank you. I will check that out later.

I have a computer that has been experiencing seemingly random BSODs. The first time was when the computer BSOD-ed a couple days ago while watching a video. It has also BSOD-ed when copying a folder...

I would really recommend that you start with something like VMWare or VirtualBox. Hyper-V is a little difficult for starters to understand. I would recommend that you use VMWare- its what I...

I suspected you were using MAK. KMS requires a threshold where you have to have like 20+ machines using it before it'll work

: D That's great.

Yeah- variables, conditional statements, etc... are what can control the flow of a script and program. That's an excellent idea for having two separate options for capturing and deploying. For...

*>>The solution is to add 'timeout.exe' and 'timeout.exe.mui' to the WinPE image.

*mount WinPE's .boot.wim*

On a Windows 10 machine:
-Navigate to %WINDIR%\System32\
-Search 'timeout.exe'...

Yeah, that doesn't seem to work in WinPE. Rats... will have to seek out another solution

Seems to have worked for me (I should probably test in WinPE). Here's my script:

File: arg.cmd

@ECHO OFF
ECHO Testing timer...
TIMEOUT /t 5
ECHO Timer over...

Output:

Yes, with a USB flash drive you have read/ write permissions. With a .iso this isn't the case, unless you have some sort of software that can modify it.

What's your volume activation solution? (KMS or MAK)? I imagine you're using a MAK key.

I have observed some activation flakiness with both Windows and Office when using a volume activation...

-My 'reference machine' is a virtual machine and there is no USB involved. I cannot 'plug' a USB stick into the virtual machine (I'm using VMWare). I build a .iso file to work around it. .iso is a...

1>> Its going to have a mind of its own. If you took that drive out and plugged it into another computer the Windows partition is going to be a different letter. Generally the first OS to be...

1>>Yes
2>>Yes
3>>Yes

1*>You don't want to keep capturing your image- do that only once when you have it exactly how you want it and are ready to deploy. Then, back that captured .wim up to a...

Either extension is acceptable. For the sake of keeping things consistent, I would use .cmd

Oh, that's fine- don't hesitate to ask questions.

1>>Yeah, mainly all of that is confusing since I really messed up there when explaining that. Actually, you have an opportunity here to further...

*Assuming that you will be referencing them from the startnet.cmd script*

-Copy the script files to <winpemountdir>\Windows\System32.
-If they are batch scripts then save them as <filename>.cmd...