Upgrading 1809 to 1909 - mysterious problem.

Hi,

Every new update increments the versions numbers.

Try with the March 2019.
 
Alright, that was unexpected. It crashed during initial "preparing to setup" phase. I.e. from "normal" Windows. No BSOD, just same power down and reboot.
 

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There is a pattern, always fail during the same phase, applying the wim file!

At this point I think that installing Windows fresh into a clean SSD/HDD, with nothing more connected, to see if it works would be the best test to determine if there is some hardware problem.

Do you notice anything that could suggest a thermal problem?
 
Clean 1908 onto fresh SSD works, I already tried that. Shouldn't be a thermal issue - i'm quite an active gamer (you might have noticed), and never had anything resembling thermal issue even in most stressful games.
 
If I remember correctly when we started the installation wasn't in UEFI mode...
 
BIOS was in UEFI mode, it doesn't have any other mode anyway. Current Windows wasn't in UEFI, but now is. Clean 1908 was UEFI from the start.

Also, I've noticed that all browser cookies and history are gone. Is that a consequence of running FRST fix ?
 
Orkhis said:
BIOS was in UEFI mode, it doesn't have any other mode anyway. Current Windows wasn't in UEFI, but now is. Clean 1908 was UEFI from the start.
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It didn't had the normal UEFI partitions!

Also, I've noticed that all browser cookies and history are gone. Is that a consequence of running FRST fix ?
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Yes the EmptyTemp: directive does that sorry!
 
AFAIK the BIOS configuration and the installation mode must match that's is why on some machines when the change is done in the BIOS on the next boot it requests for a one time code to confirm the changes and avoid problems booting the system... I don't know how you managed to have two Windows installations working one installed in CSM mode (initial Windows 7) and the other in UEFI mode! I assumed that at some point you disabled CSM in the BIOS to do the fresh install?

My suggestion to do a clean install on a different drive was to help determine if there is some hardware problem or not.

I ask about an eventual thermal issue because the installation boots to WinPE and in that mode the system doesn't control the hardware the same way the installed OS does, I use WinPE many times and notice that some machines get hotter way faster in this mode...
 
Damn, it is persistent. Cloned current installation to SSD and tried to upgrade. Crashed all the same, but now almost right at the end of applying WIM. I wonder if SSD speed made a difference ?
 

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