Windows 10 various issues

doodah · 27 Feb 2019 at 12:17

I seem to be having a bad run of problems with Windows 10 installs recently. The latest one is with my HTPC (Ryzen 2500G, 16GB RAM, 4 x mechanical HDs & 1 SSD for boot). I run Kodi on there, as well as an Emby server and remote in a lot using Teamviwer.

Downloading torrents seemingly crashes the system
The task bar randomly kept reverting to auto hide without me telling it to, almost as if Explorer crashed
Random freezes/crashes when using Teamviwer
BSODs
Green lines on the TV it's connected to and weird issues where the TV acts as if there is no source, resulting in me either restarting the machine or remoting in to force it to wake up (turned off any options relating to shutting down HDs after inactivity)
Kodi must have updated to v18 and can barely hold itself together constantly crashing
Crashes and BSODs are getting worse

I have checked the temps and they seem fine. My only guess is the boot drive or Windows installation but have never seen a series of issues like these together. Any ideas?

I have a nVME 480GB HD that was intended for my main rig but seeing as I am heading towards reinstalling Windows, might stick it into the HTPC.

Admetos · 27 Feb 2019 at 12:54

Green lines on screen are normally a graphics issue. I would update the graphics drivers with clean install option, if it still continues try another graphics card.

footman · 1 Mar 2019 at 11:36

Try this: disable Windows installing drivers in Updates and use the manufacturers drivers only, seems to have cured my Win10 problems although I've got fingers crossed.
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-disable-automatic-driver-updates-windows-10

doodah · 1 Mar 2019 at 15:55

footman said:
Try this: disable Windows installing drivers in Updates and use the manufacturers drivers only, seems to have cured my Win10 problems although I've got fingers crossed.
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-disable-automatic-driver-updates-windows-10

Thank you. Did you need to roll back/uninstall potential problem drivers first?

footman · 1 Mar 2019 at 16:22

doodah said:
Thank you. Did you need to roll back/uninstall potential problem drivers first?

No, I just overwrote the Windows WHQL drivers with those I downloaded from the motherboard sites and then disabled driver updates, hope it works for you.

doodah · 1 Mar 2019 at 16:42

That's encouraging. I really can't be bothered to take my HTPC apart as the M.2 port is on the mobo's backside

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doodah · 2 Mar 2019 at 16:06

Yeah this install is ******. I tried to uninstall the AMD drivers, manually first and then with DDU. It crashed installing the updated drivers, tried again and they installed but now it crashes multiple times within minutes.

footman · 3 Mar 2019 at 09:48

doodah said:
Yeah this install is ******. I tried to uninstall the AMD drivers, manually first and then with DDU. It crashed installing the updated drivers, tried again and they installed but now it crashes multiple times within minutes.

I would try 2 things now assuming that you are able to get to a command prompt either in Windows Repair during a blue screen or Windows Repair from a bootable usb win10 media. Do a chkdsk to check for bad sectors on the drive and also create a bootable memtest usb drive and run it to check on your ram.

doodah · 3 Mar 2019 at 10:05

footman said:
I would try 2 things now assuming that you are able to get to a command prompt either in Windows Repair during a blue screen or Windows Repair from a bootable usb win10 media. Do a chkdsk to check for bad sectors on the drive and also create a bootable memtest usb drive and run it to check on your ram.

It was the perfect excuse to try out my new nVME SSD. Drivers and BIOS updated, I have told Windows to stop updating drivers (thanks) and it's running like a dream now

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footman · 3 Mar 2019 at 10:33

doodah said:
It was the perfect excuse to try out my new nVME SSD. Drivers and BIOS updated, I have told Windows to stop updating drivers (thanks) and it's running like a dream now .

good news