Crazy number of non-booting Windows 10 this week...

[Porthos]

The AMD 4000 series only works with old drivers. When 10 upgrades to a new build it installs their drivers that don't work. Laptops can be fixed using old drivers AND an EXTERNAL monitor to be able to see what your doing. But will happen again next year after the next build.

 

[MudRock]

Isnt that the culprit most of the time? AMD graphics drivers are terrible at best. I dont carry AMD GPU's only nVidia for that reason alone. I also dont carry AMD APU's either. I know I could make money off of them, but in the long run, I would lose money having to fix/warranty the product and I just dont want to lose money.. who does right?

Something most consumers don't realize. Big boxes make money on volume, even if it's garbage. We smaller guys make money on quality. I tell my customers that sell them quality (or the best I can) because I don't WANT them back in for warranty. Costs me money.

I don't see a lot of issues with AMD laptop processors except these dual graphics rigs can be a bit temperamental. As for desktops, Intel processors all the way and nVidia cards unless Radeon is requested.

The AMD 4000 series only works with old drivers. When 10 upgrades to a new build it installs their drivers that don't work. Laptops can be fixed using old drivers AND an EXTERNAL monitor to be able to see what your doing. But will happen next year after the next build.

This was an 8000 series dual set up, but yeah, I see too much AMD issues in the prebuilt desktop stuff.

 

[4ycr]

How did you determine it was the graphics drivers?

One of the reboots I managed to get the BSOD and the file started with ati so I thought it was to do with graphics

 

[Keegan]

One of the reboots I managed to get the BSOD and the file started with ati so I thought it was to do with graphics

You are right.
A crazy amount of HP laptops are coming in with this problem.

Start the computer in safe mode and remove the driver with Guru3d.com display driver uninstaller.
Then restart in normal mode and install the latest display driver.

Not always nice when drivers come through windows update

 

[MudRock]

You are right.
A crazy amount of HP laptops are coming in with this problem.

Start the computer in safe mode and remove the driver with Guru3d.com display driver uninstaller.
Then restart in normal mode and install the latest display driver.

Not always nice when drivers come through windows update

I guess a combination of issues here; Microsoft pushing driver updates automatically and Windows not seeming to BSOD and instead reporting it as a generic error.

I'm now on 5 of these last week now; 2 of which were video, 1 was failing drive, and 2 were bad BCDs. None of them reported anything different from each other.