Seeking power supply advice

gunrunnerjohn · May 5, 2025

Isn't there any clue in the event logs? Sounds like time for a clean install and rebuilding Windows.

esebm · May 5, 2025

There are lots of Errors 1084, event IDs 10005 during the safe mode period.

gunrunnerjohn · May 5, 2025

I suspect we'd have to see those in context to see what was happening.

esebm · May 5, 2025

Here's a screen shot

gunrunnerjohn · May 5, 2025

My guess would be that doesn't run in Safe mode, either by design or something is missing.

esebm · May 5, 2025

Well, there was the black screen and "Safe Mode" in all 4 corners. If that isn't safe mode, then I don't know what is.

gunrunnerjohn · May 5, 2025

esebm said:
Well, there was the black screen and "Safe Mode" in all 4 corners. If that isn't safe mode, then I don't know what is.

Read my post again. Like I said, maybe that function doesn't run in Safe Mode.

esebm · May 5, 2025

OK, sorry, my bad.
The event viewer was checked when the PC was in win 11 mode. I didn't know that it would work in safe mode. I'll try that.

gunrunnerjohn · May 5, 2025

esebm said:
OK, sorry, my bad.
The event viewer was checked when the PC was in win 11 mode. I didn't know that it would work in safe mode. I'll try that.

I have no idea why that's throwing errors in normal mode, but that's certainly likely to be part of the problem.

esebm · May 5, 2025

I just checked, the event viewer works in safe mode but my screen capture software does not, so no screen shot.
But it shows the same error messages as above.

gunrunnerjohn · May 5, 2025

Yep, I'd start by chasing down that rabbit hole.

esebm · May 5, 2025

If I only knew how!

bobkn · May 5, 2025

A bit over a year ago, I had a problem with a USB port. (Horribly distorted sound from PC speakers, that communicate via USB.)

What I ultimately did was to image C: (Macrium Reflect), and follow with a clean install of Win 11. I thought that would determine whether I had corrupted drivers. (The speakers had worked previously, on the same hardware and OS, although not necessarily the same OS build.)

With a minimal Win11, the issue persisted. That may not have been absolute proof that it was a hardware issue, but it was good enough for me.

I restored the image to C.

The motherboard was still within the exchange window at the shop, so I replaced it with the exact same model. I put the drives in the same slots.

No USB issues. That has held true for nearly 18 months.

If "esebm's" problem turns out to not be a hardware issue, rebuilding Windows from scratch may not be fun.

gunrunnerjohn · May 5, 2025

bobkn said:
If "esebm's" problem turns out to not be a hardware issue, rebuilding Windows from scratch may not be fun.

The level of "fun" is related to how much you've installed and configured. When I replaced my wife's computer, it took a couple hours and she was back to her original operational state. For me, it took me a few days probably 20 hours or so, to get everything back to where all my applications and configuration was back.

However a clean install does give you a chance to clean out junk that you've installed over the years and start with a clean slate of only your current needs.

esebm · May 8, 2025

This PC drives me nuts! It ran for over 2 days without shutting down and I got my hopes up.
Today it started back with its antics.
What if I reinstall windows and this thing conks out on me in the middle of that? I'd be screwed, right?

Marcus Vinicus · May 8, 2025

@esebm

I haven't read every post in this thread but have you tried doing a selective startup and disabling all non-Microsoft services? This stops all 3rd party services from starting and may help to diagnose/eleminate some possibilities.

I think @Brink has a tutorial about using options like Selective Startup here at Elevenforum?

esebm · May 8, 2025

I had the system running in safe mode for about 24 hours without a problem, if that's what you mean.

gunrunnerjohn · May 8, 2025

I'm Starting to think hardware problems here, either memory or the motherboard/CPU. I think you've beat software debugging to death without any concrete results.

Marcus Vinicus · May 8, 2025

esebm said:
I had the system running in safe mode for about 24 hours without a problem, if that's what you mean.

Did those DCOM errors still appear in the Event Viewer when running in Safe Mode?

esebm · May 8, 2025

I don't remember that, sorry.
I'll run it in safe mode over night again and report back tomorrow morning.
I found this link https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/fix-distributedcom-error-10016-windows/ to fix those DCOM errors.

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