dotCodyMar 21

Windows refuses to boot. Cannot boot from USB. Rare fresh install screen but no USB input. PNP Driver Watchdog error BSOD

https://lemmy.world/post/44533190

Show threadScrubblesMar 21
Unplanned crash like all this tells me RAM. I would say disk, but if you can’t get to even a boot disk (which loads to ram) then I say ram. Watchdog too to me says ram because it sounds like it tried to write and failed. Run memtest and see what happens
Show threaddotCodyMar 21

How do I perform a memtest when the pc will not boot?

Show threadteftMar 21
Download memtest86+ to a thumbdrive, boot from the thumbdrive and run the tests.
Show threadEvil_ShrubberyMar 21

We have been giving them this simple advice for 10 days now (they have several posts regarding this issue, you can look it up), they just disregard it.

(That and live-booting any OS from USB just for diagnostics.)

Show threadteftMar 21
We can only lead a user to the water hole. We can’t make them drink.
Show threadEvil_Shrubbery
Oh, the water hole of a water cooled PC can leak & cause such symptoms … we prob should not make them drink it tho.
Mar 21 at 1:20pmWeb