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    • WLS-ITGuyW
      WLS-ITGuy
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      This laptop is going through the "This may take several minutes" screen but so far no prompt for selecting a keyboard.

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      • kamidonK
        kamidon @WLS-ITGuy
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        @WLS-ITGuy Ah ok. If it seems to stall on that screen, let's make sure the computer is completely off.
        So hold the power button down for 10 seconds, unplug and take the battery out.

        Put the battery back in, plug in the power, and turn it back on.
        Since it's an older laptop, maybe make several sandwiches or knit a sweater or two. 😉

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        • WLS-ITGuyW
          WLS-ITGuy @WLS-ITGuy
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          @WLS-ITGuy said in Laptop trying to factory reset itself:

          This laptop is going through the "This may take several minutes" screen but so far no prompt for selecting a keyboard.

          No keyboard prompt after the above finished.

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          • WLS-ITGuyW
            WLS-ITGuy @kamidon
            last edited by

            @kamidon said in Laptop trying to factory reset itself:

            @WLS-ITGuy Ah ok. If it seems to stall on that screen, let's make sure the computer is completely off.
            So hold the power button down for 10 seconds, unplug and take the battery out.

            Put the battery back in, plug in the power, and turn it back on.
            Since it's an older laptop, maybe make several sandwiches or knit a sweater or two. 😉

            Sorry - I was posting that I was doing the 1903 upgrade as I thought the OP posted that he had just done that.

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            • kamidonK
              kamidon @WLS-ITGuy
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              @WLS-ITGuy I'm so confused lmao!

              I think I got it though, so it's not factory resetting itself, it's just stalling on the 1903 screen?
              Or is the installation of 1903 just a step in troubleshooting?

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller
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                Yeah, the 1903 update seems the most likely culprit.

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                • maryM
                  mary
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                  It's giving me system recovery or checkup options. I'll run the checkup but at this point I'll put Fedora on it. #FUWindows

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                  • kamidonK
                    kamidon @mary
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                    @mary said in Laptop trying to factory reset itself:

                    It's giving me system recovery or checkup options. I'll run the checkup but at this point I'll put Fedora on it. #FUWindows

                    Windows: "But muh vidya games!"

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                      scotth @mary
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                      @mary I've had 3 updates give me grief. In the repair utility, I went to the commandline and ran a chkdsk (insert driver letter here): /r once I verified on which drive the OS was located in the repair utility. It seemed to work. After, I ran DISM and sfc

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                      • maryM
                        mary @kamidon
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                        @kamidon right! Seriously though, I'm running sfc/scannow to see if it will show anything

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller @kamidon
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                          @kamidon said in Laptop trying to factory reset itself:

                          @mary said in Laptop trying to factory reset itself:

                          It's giving me system recovery or checkup options. I'll run the checkup but at this point I'll put Fedora on it. #FUWindows

                          Windows: "But muh vidya games!"

                          Linux: Proton B!tch3s!!!

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                            scotth @mary
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                            @mary I had to chkdsk before I could get it to settle down. Not sure why.

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                            • kamidonK
                              kamidon @mary
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                              @mary said in Laptop trying to factory reset itself:

                              @kamidon right! Seriously though, I'm running sfc/scannow to see if it will show anything

                              That and what Scotth said as well. dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth and Chkdsk /r
                              Best to do Chkdsk last...that one is always risky...Roll the die one way and it'll slaughter your OS and then of course sometimes it'll fix your issue.
                              Don't recall if DISM has ever fixed anything for me, but it's worth trying.

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                              • kamidonK
                                kamidon @scottalanmiller
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                                @scottalanmiller said in Laptop trying to factory reset itself:

                                @kamidon said in Laptop trying to factory reset itself:

                                @mary said in Laptop trying to factory reset itself:

                                It's giving me system recovery or checkup options. I'll run the checkup but at this point I'll put Fedora on it. #FUWindows

                                Windows: "But muh vidya games!"

                                Linux: Proton B!tch3s!!!

                                Apparently I'm behind the times.
                                So I take it this Proton replaced Wine?

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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller @kamidon
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                                  @kamidon said in Laptop trying to factory reset itself:

                                  @scottalanmiller said in Laptop trying to factory reset itself:

                                  @kamidon said in Laptop trying to factory reset itself:

                                  @mary said in Laptop trying to factory reset itself:

                                  It's giving me system recovery or checkup options. I'll run the checkup but at this point I'll put Fedora on it. #FUWindows

                                  Windows: "But muh vidya games!"

                                  Linux: Proton B!tch3s!!!

                                  Apparently I'm behind the times.
                                  So I take it this Proton replaced Wine?

                                  Got announced like a year ago almost. Steam was fed up with microsoft and dedicated some crazy amount of resources to write compatibility layers for things like DirectX that were always the "lock in" of Windows. Proton is doing some amazing stuff.

                                  I've got games running on it already.

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                                  • kamidonK
                                    kamidon @scottalanmiller
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                                    @scottalanmiller said in Laptop trying to factory reset itself:

                                    @kamidon said in Laptop trying to factory reset itself:

                                    @scottalanmiller said in Laptop trying to factory reset itself:

                                    @kamidon said in Laptop trying to factory reset itself:

                                    @mary said in Laptop trying to factory reset itself:

                                    It's giving me system recovery or checkup options. I'll run the checkup but at this point I'll put Fedora on it. #FUWindows

                                    Windows: "But muh vidya games!"

                                    Linux: Proton B!tch3s!!!

                                    Apparently I'm behind the times.
                                    So I take it this Proton replaced Wine?

                                    Got announced like a year ago almost. Steam was fed up with microsoft and dedicated some crazy amount of resources to write compatibility layers for things like DirectX that were always the "lock in" of Windows. Proton is doing some amazing stuff.

                                    I've got games running on it already.

                                    Heh, well there's something for me to focus on! :face_with_stuck-out_tongue:

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                                      scotth
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                                      Here's another thing that helps sort out the issues. This command examines the cbs.log and dumps the results in a text file.

                                      findstr /c:"[SR]" %windir%\logs\cbs\cbs.log >sfcdetails.txt

                                      Google the entries and address the issues one at a time.

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