de.das.dude
Pro Indian Modder
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- Jun 13, 2010
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- Stuck in a PC. halp.
System Name | Monke | Work Thinkpad| Old Monke |
---|---|
Processor | Ryzen 5600X | Ryzen 5500U | FX8320 |
Motherboard | ASRock B550 Extreme4 | ? | Asrock 990FX Extreme 4 |
Cooling | 240mm Rad | Not needed | hyper 212 EVO |
Memory | 2x16GB DDR4 3600 Corsair RGB | 16 GB DDR4 3600 | 16GB DDR3 1600 |
Video Card(s) | Sapphire Pulse RX6700XT 12GB | Vega 8 | Sapphire Pulse RX580 8GB |
Storage | Samsung 980 nvme (Primary) | some samsung SSD |
Display(s) | Dell 2723DS | Some 14" 1080p 98%sRGB IPS | Dell 2240L |
Case | Ant Esports Tempered case | Thinkpad | Antec |
Audio Device(s) | Logitech Z333 | Jabra corpo stuff |
Power Supply | Corsair RM750e | not needed | Corsair GS 600 |
Mouse | Logitech G400 | nipple |
Keyboard | Logitech G213 | stock kb is awesome | Logitech K230 |
VR HMD | ;_; |
Software | Windows 10 Professional x3 |
Benchmark Scores | There are no marks on my bench |
After spending two sleepless nights in a row not knowing what to do when my update procedure kept failing on me... and after finally achieving windows 8.1 with.. frankly, very silly solutions... i thought it would make a guide for the people who are yet o encounter this horrible experience.
This guide presumes you have decent english comprehension skills and patience.
1. Configuring your windows update.
First you need to disable manual checking of windows updates. You can do this from Control Panel -> Windows Update, and then look in the top left of the screen.
Set it to "Do not check for updates automatically"
2. You will need a specific update i.e. KB 2871389 for windows 8.1 upgrade to be available in your windows store.
Since you have disabled automatic updates, you will no longer need to look at the screen showing this update failed to install.
Instead click here to download the update manually from microsoft themselves. They did this because they know how horribly windows 8 updater is bugged.
After it finishes downloading, go to the download location, right click on the file and "Run as Administrator"
Still fails? Click the online trouble shooter to fix problems. On starting you will find two options, updater and a intelligent file transfer. clcik one and follow through then run the program again and do the other one.
4. Restart PC to install the update.
5. Go check in windows store. If it does not download, then disconnect internet and reconnect again.
6. As soon as it starts downloading there is a chance it can get stuck at a couple of key points.
i.e at 50%, at 62%
Just disconnect internet and reconnect.
7. You can pause the download when ever and shut down PC and resume again the next day from where you left off.
THis should do it.
Afterwards many people complain their activation has been lost. just open run (windows key + R) and type "wsreset.exe" and press enter. That should do it.
More tricks-
For anyone who wants to find their serial number and other useful (lol or maybe useless) information just open command line and type
>wmic
hit enter and type
>os
hit enter and scroll to the right. enjoy
trick brought to you by @Drone
This guide presumes you have decent english comprehension skills and patience.
1. Configuring your windows update.
First you need to disable manual checking of windows updates. You can do this from Control Panel -> Windows Update, and then look in the top left of the screen.
Set it to "Do not check for updates automatically"
2. You will need a specific update i.e. KB 2871389 for windows 8.1 upgrade to be available in your windows store.
Since you have disabled automatic updates, you will no longer need to look at the screen showing this update failed to install.
Instead click here to download the update manually from microsoft themselves. They did this because they know how horribly windows 8 updater is bugged.
After it finishes downloading, go to the download location, right click on the file and "Run as Administrator"
Still fails? Click the online trouble shooter to fix problems. On starting you will find two options, updater and a intelligent file transfer. clcik one and follow through then run the program again and do the other one.
4. Restart PC to install the update.
5. Go check in windows store. If it does not download, then disconnect internet and reconnect again.
6. As soon as it starts downloading there is a chance it can get stuck at a couple of key points.
i.e at 50%, at 62%
Just disconnect internet and reconnect.
7. You can pause the download when ever and shut down PC and resume again the next day from where you left off.
THis should do it.
Afterwards many people complain their activation has been lost. just open run (windows key + R) and type "wsreset.exe" and press enter. That should do it.
More tricks-
For anyone who wants to find their serial number and other useful (lol or maybe useless) information just open command line and type
>wmic
hit enter and type
>os
hit enter and scroll to the right. enjoy
trick brought to you by @Drone
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