Tag: windows 10

Done with old laptop’s upgrade effort

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I got an email from H Power Computing asking if I wanted to replace my motherboard or not on the M2800. Apparently they didn’t read my last message to them telling them go ahead as a go ahead. So since I had the chance, I rolled that decision back and told them never mind, just restore it to the Windows 7 OS running and I would forget about Win10.…

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Fixing this old laptop might get expensive!!

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H Power Computing also messaged me about my M2800 laptop having Win10 installed. It’s not installing. They believe the motherboard is bad. So they quoted ordering a replacement (used from overseas) at $378.00. WTF do I do, abandon the effort with money already sunk in for the Windows 10 upgrade and the labor to troubleshooting/fix the laptop???…

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Sought professional help (for laptop)!

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It’s been over a week since I started trying to upgrade the old laptop (Dell M2800). I have been unusually patient, and it hasn’t aggravated me the way something like this normally would. It helps that it’s not the main computer, of course! But… I’ve given up trying on my own. I messaged H Power Computing aka Digital Solutions, the computer fix-it place I took this same laptop to in 2017, on Saturday to bring it in today.…

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Is this a lesson in futility?

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So it’s day 4 messing with this damned old laptop (3 years old so it’s not really old) trying to upgrade it to Windows 10. It keeps hanging at about 85%. I get the error:

0xC1900101-0x40021

I run this setupdiag.exe that I downloaded to see why it is stopping, and it can’t find any failure signatures. Searching online and seeing many, MANY people having upgrade issues, I tried several things… updated BIOS, ran Windows 7 updates several times, updated drivers.…

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