And speak of the devil, Microsoft has now pushed out Creators Update to everyone who had been deferring it. So now you have to take it.
That's the thing though. Win10 AU is not EOL. It's a Long Term Service Branch that's getting 5+5 support. Microsoft is going to be supporting that until 2026!They had to push the Creator's update, since the EOL'ed the older versions of the OS.
So, you can't defer forever...
Interesting. I don't recall deferring CU, don't have "defer upgrades" checked, but no CU has shown up so far. Checking for updates does have the "do you want to be among the first" remark as before.And speak of the devil, Microsoft has now pushed out Creators Update to everyone who had been deferring it. So now you have to take it.
I know that you've mentioned potentially bent pins before, and I was curious - can you "Restart" your PC from Windows, and will it restart properly?Tonight my PC tried another update on its own, and I fond it hung as usual. Luckily power cycling (twice) again still booted.
Not sure when one of these times it won't.
I'm wondering if I have one option. I'm assuming it's a hardware issue, likely bent CPU pins. But one thing to try would be re-installing the OS.
Linux would be your friend here. No forced updates and doesn't invade your privacy.Interesting. I don't recall deferring CU, don't have "defer upgrades" checked, but no CU has shown up so far. Checking for updates does have the "do you want to be among the first" remark as before.
Microsoft apparently always, always fails to do what the customers want. (To be fair, I won't tell them what I do desire.)
Windows 10 1511 will be retired on October 10, 2017, AU is 1607 I think it was.That's the thing though. Win10 AU is not EOL. It's a Long Term Service Branch that's getting 5+5 support. Microsoft is going to be supporting that until 2026!
Tonight my PC tried another update on its own, and I fond it hung as usual. Luckily power cycling (twice) again still booted.
Not sure when one of these times it won't.
I'm wondering if I have one option. I'm assuming it's a hardware issue, likely bent CPU pins. But one thing to try would be re-installing the OS.
I think there's an option to 're-install the OS but keep your files'. I'd be interested in trying that, but am thinking that might break the OS and leave the PC unbootable where at best I can re-install again but not keep my filed and I don't want that.
Wondering if there's any reasonable option for trying it and being able to restore if needed.
I haven't found any backup system I like. I found one I used once where I backed up some text files I want. It seems impractical to backup 1.5TB of mostly games, though I think I have less than 50% disk used.
If you think that there's a hardware stability issue, then doing anything significant with the OS is a really bad idea: you'll likely just end up with more of a mess than you started with.
Investigate the stability issue first, then determine if there is still an OS issue.
It's simple: runs stably, unless rebooted, generally with a patch/upgrade. Those always get a hardware hang and have to rollback except maybe small patches.
If you're asking for an opinion for what hardware could be faulty, it could be a number of things.
Didn't you do a thread recently about stability issues?
Can we clear this up (at least for now): Did you actually see some physical damage such as bent pins or not?
The nice thing here is that bent pins are on the board (if I remember your build correctly) not on the CPU. So ~$100 to get to a perfectly working computer may be worth it. In the words of VL, "Just sayin'..."
Microsoft is trying to make en enemy.
Tonight it rebooted without any warning other than a window to close about a half-hour earlier, just after I had typed in an unsaved article.
Microsoft really goofed badly when they implemented this update scheme. I mean really, it is bad enough that Windows has to reboot many times while updating.Also, Win10 has a 'quiet hours' feature during which time it's OK for MS to reboot the machine for updates. Admittedly the feature needs a lot of work, for example complete flexibility in choosing which hours (including all of them), but it's better than a machine that just reboots of its own accord.
I wonder if it's possible that your attention was diverted while typing and pressing say the Enter key caused a message to disappear immediately after it appeared.