short_circut
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I’ve been using my system for a while without issues, until about a few months ago when I ran into problems that would randomly occur which would ultimately have to result in a reinstall of Windows. It would be a case of fine usage for 2-5 days, then the next day for no apparent reason something would just break and doing things like trying to run dism, a repair install or chkdsk would just outright break the system and force a windows reinstall.
One thing that I have been noticing with these installs, is that running sfc /scannow would always report a “corrupted files found but could not be repaired” issue even on a fresh install. DISM either has actually never been able to actually work, usually giving a “source files not found” error (even when locally sourcing the file). So for the past week I have been trying to get a “perfect” install from the get go.
But it has been proving to be impossible. The installs seem to be a game of rng where sometimes it will go through all the way to desktop (and even then there might be some problems like MS Store not opening), other times it would bsod after the automated restart and some times it would give the “Why did your computer restart?” Error in an endless loop. The only thing I’ve noticed is that disabling secure boot (switching boot from uefi to other os) seems to make the success rate higher but not guaranteed
So I thought it had to have been a usb issue. I’ve been using my brothers laptop (fully updated) with both media creation tool and using rufus to mount an iso to create 3 usb installs now, now of which was a recently purchased flash drive. Differences were minimal. Just purchased an official W11 usb from Microsoft so will have to wait for tomorrow but really having little hope.
I’m not entirely sure if the issues persist on the hardware side of things. Running memtest and hard drive scans (can’t remember which one in particular) came back clean
One thing that I have been noticing with these installs, is that running sfc /scannow would always report a “corrupted files found but could not be repaired” issue even on a fresh install. DISM either has actually never been able to actually work, usually giving a “source files not found” error (even when locally sourcing the file). So for the past week I have been trying to get a “perfect” install from the get go.
But it has been proving to be impossible. The installs seem to be a game of rng where sometimes it will go through all the way to desktop (and even then there might be some problems like MS Store not opening), other times it would bsod after the automated restart and some times it would give the “Why did your computer restart?” Error in an endless loop. The only thing I’ve noticed is that disabling secure boot (switching boot from uefi to other os) seems to make the success rate higher but not guaranteed
So I thought it had to have been a usb issue. I’ve been using my brothers laptop (fully updated) with both media creation tool and using rufus to mount an iso to create 3 usb installs now, now of which was a recently purchased flash drive. Differences were minimal. Just purchased an official W11 usb from Microsoft so will have to wait for tomorrow but really having little hope.
I’m not entirely sure if the issues persist on the hardware side of things. Running memtest and hard drive scans (can’t remember which one in particular) came back clean
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My Computer
System One
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- OS
- 11
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- Manufacturer/Model
- ASUS
- CPU
- I7-12700k
- Motherboard
- ASUS Z690-E
- Memory
- Corsair 64gb (4x16gb) DDR5
- Graphics Card(s)
- MSi RTX 4090
- Hard Drives
- Crucial T700