Every Windows Update Forces me to Reinstall Windows

[HannibalBarca]

Hi all,

I was hoping someone here might be able to help me with a problem I've been having.

Twice in a row now whenever the latest windows update comes in and I install it, once the computer restart the OS fails to boot. It takes me to trouble-shooter, which fails to diagnose issue. My only recourse to getting back in is to reinstall windows, which has been a big pain.

My mobo is an ASUS Tuf X570, I'm not particularly familiar with messing with BIOS settings but would anyone know if there's any setting in there that I should perhaps be messing with?

 

[FredFlint]

I would run a mem test program to test RAM as it looks like windows is getting corrupted. If you have set RAM XMP/DOCP, try setting it to default/Auto and test if that still has issues.

 

[HannibalBarca]

Hiya,

Cheers for the advice, I ran a mem test and didn't return any errors.

Got blue screened again after trying to install windows updates (got to about 30%) but this time instead of forcing me to reinstall windows it was able to roll back the attempted update. So not all the way there but it seems like progress has been made XD.

I'll go into the BIOS and see if I can find the ram settings and play with those and confirm back after the next time my computer tries to install updates with how that went.

 

[FredFlint]

Hiya,

Cheers for the advice, I ran a mem test and didn't return any errors.

Got blue screened again after trying to install windows updates (got to about 30%) but this time instead of forcing me to reinstall windows it was able to roll back the attempted update. So not all the way there but it seems like progress has been made XD.

I'll go into the BIOS and see if I can find the ram settings and play with those and confirm back after the next time my computer tries to install updates with how that went.

Use DISM, this is part of windows and is used for fixing the install.

Run Command Prompt as Admin:

To Scan for problems run this:
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth
To Restore Health (fix problems):
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-use-dism-command-line-utility-repair-windows-10-image

 

[t31os]

Might be worth slinging in a cheap 120gb ssd and testing an install on that if memory is clearing diagnostics. If you memtested but left an XMP profile in place, do take the ram off of XMP all the same, it could be a flaky/unstable XMP profile with the board and not a literal memory issue.

 

[Scougar]

I can't even update my daughters machine. She's stuck on a version that is at least a year out of date. I'll be flashing the bios later (early ryzen chip/board), to see if that works, otherwise I'll be doing the same as the OP... and re-installing.

Windows updates are a PITA at times.