Windows 10 Anniversary Update

[Man Called X]

Anyone else have problems with your computer afterwards? Specifically a Nvidia video card?

My card started getting white lines through everything and eventually my hard drive was corrupted. Format and fresh install later, my computer is functioning. I have to use onboard video because if I'm plugged into the card, it's white lines/blocks. So I assume it's hardware failure.

But, installing Plex on to that fresh install that was literally Win 10 + Nvidia drivers, Plex causes a hard lockup and becomes completely unresponsive.

I'm stumped.

@gourimoko figure this shit out before I set fire to this fucking PC.

 

[gourimoko]

Anyone else have problems with your computer afterwards? Specifically a Nvidia video card?

My card started getting white lines through everything and eventually my hard drive was corrupted. Format and fresh install later, my computer is functioning. I have to use onboard video because if I'm plugged into the card, it's white lines/blocks. So I assume it's hardware failure.

But, installing Plex on to that fresh install that was literally Win 10 + Nvidia drivers, Plex causes a hard lockup and becomes completely unresponsive.

I'm stumped.

@gourimoko figure this shit out before I set fire to this fucking PC.

The last Windows update fucked up my desktop icons...

The one before that somehow wiped out a good portion of my 64-bit Program Files directory.

The 1607 (anniversary) update is actually pending for installation right now....

We'll see..

For what it's worth, I'm running dual Nvidia GTX cards right now, so we'll see if I experience problems.

BTW, FWIW, I noticed that Photoshop started giving me these crazy hardware glitches in the past few days. I had noticed that it had crashed, reset itself, and disabled hardware acceleration. I changed the settings and force launched through the Nvidia card and it's working again.

Will download the beta Nvidia drivers as a backup just in case. Also, if you're running Core processor that has an IGD, you really shouldn't be experiencing any problems unless the Nvidia card is in use, no?

 

[Man Called X]

Remove Nvidia drivers, plex works. But, plex web player will not build/load the dashboard, and Roku sees the network, but will not load a list of anything to watch.

PMS tries to use something like 60% CPU according to task manager while it's managing to do absolutely nothing as far as populating my playlist.

So at this point, Win10 is basically unusable for me if I can't get PMS to work correctly on it.

 

[gourimoko]

Remove Nvidia drivers, plex works. But, plex web player will not build/load the dashboard, and Roku sees the network, but will not load a list of anything to watch.

PMS tries to use something like 60% CPU according to task manager while it's managing to do absolutely nothing as far as populating my playlist.

So at this point, Win10 is basically unusable for me if I can't get PMS to work correctly on it.

Windows 10 update doesn't even install for me.. Completely broken.

As far as PMS, have you checked your actual Nvidia drivers? As in, have you tested them outside of the context of PMS? Also, why the fuck is Plex using your Nvidia card anyway, for CUDA transcoding??? On a Core processor, there's no reason for it to be using your GeForce card.

 

[Man Called X]

Windows 10 update doesn't even install for me.. Completely broken.

As far as PMS, have you checked your actual Nvidia drivers? As in, have you tested them outside of the context of PMS? Also, why the fuck is Plex using your Nvidia card anyway, for CUDA transcoding??? On a Core processor, there's no reason for it to be using your GeForce card.

It's an AMD phenom processor. I'm pretty sure the video card is fucked because the drivers always fail regardless of which set I use. But I'm still stumped why plex refuses to work properly.

I think I'm gonna do a fresh Win7 install to see if I can pms or my nvidia card to work at all.


Needless to say I'm unhappy because my sole reason for Win10 was so I could stream my Xbox1 to my PC and play while the wife and kid(s) *#2 is on the way in 7 months* used the TV.

 

[gourimoko]

It's an AMD phenom processor. I'm pretty sure the video card is fucked because the drivers always fail regardless of which set I use. But I'm still stumped why plex refuses to work properly.

I think I'm gonna do a fresh Win7 install to see if I can pms or my nvidia card to work at all.


Needless to say I'm unhappy because my sole reason for Win10 was so I could stream my Xbox1 to my PC and play while the wife and kid(s) *#2 is on the way in 7 months* used the TV.

If you've narrowed down the issue to the Anniversary Update, and everything works without the update installed, then just blacklist the update and/or disable automatic updates and do manual installs for security updates.

To blacklist the Anniversary Update, install WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) and then select Windows Update V.1607 and block it.

You should be good to go.

 

[Man Called X]

If you've narrowed down the issue to the Anniversary Update, and everything works without the update installed, then just blacklist the update and/or disable automatic updates and do manual installs for security updates.

To blacklist the Anniversary Update, install WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) and then select Windows Update V.1607 and block it.

You should be good to go.

Don't know how I can blacklist the update. It comes as part of the creation tool. No way to go back now. Guess it's Windows 7 and hoping I can get it fixed for plex.

Or my next step, burning the whole fucking thing and never bothering to buy another one again.

 

[Man Called X]

@gourimoko I'm downloading an older build of Win10 and will try a fresh install of it on my reformatted SSD.

Obviously I'm not the only one having this problem, as I found the huge reddit thread about it.

Gonna try a couple of the "fixes" before I do the fresh install tho. Who knows, I might not even have a busted video card.

Windows 10 Death Anniversary Update.

FFS, if I didn't game, I'd just switch to a Linux build altogether.

 

[gourimoko]

@gourimoko I'm downloading an older build of Win10 and will try a fresh install of it on my reformatted SSD.

Obviously I'm not the only one having this problem, as I found the huge reddit thread about it.

Gonna try a couple of the "fixes" before I do the fresh install tho. Who knows, I might not even have a busted video card.

Windows 10 Death Anniversary Update.

FFS, if I didn't game, I'd just switch to a Linux build altogether.

X, I'm not sure what you're reading on Reddit, but you shouldn't do this....

1) You can roll-back any Windows Update, including 1607.
2) If you're dead-set on reinstalling, don't use non-retail releases. Just use the retail release that's valid for your license.
3) Install WSUS and blacklist the 1607 update; this will prevent it from installing while keeping you fairly up to date on all other updates. You're done.

4) If you really cannot be bothered with any of that, just disable automatic updates all together. That takes 2 seconds and would solve your problem. Yes, you'd need to install security updates manually, but, that's not a huge deal and you could do this once every few months without worry.

 

[bigfoot5415]

Anyone able to message me a easy to install, free version of Windows 10? IPTorrents hasnt given me what I need.

I need to be spoon fed damn it!!!

 

[Man Called X]

X, I'm not sure what you're reading on Reddit, but you shouldn't do this....

1) You can roll-back any Windows Update, including 1607.
2) If you're dead-set on reinstalling, don't use non-retail releases. Just use the retail release that's valid for your license.
3) Install WSUS and blacklist the 1607 update; this will prevent it from installing while keeping you fairly up to date on all other updates. You're done.

4) If you really cannot be bothered with any of that, just disable automatic updates all together. That takes 2 seconds and would solve your problem. Yes, you'd need to install security updates manually, but, that's not a huge deal and you could do this once every few months without worry.

I didn't think you could turn off auto updates on Windows 10. If you can, I've never found an option. Only the defer option if you have Win10 Pro.

As for why I'm doing a fresh install of the last build(1151)? There is no other option for me at this point. Anniversary update deletes restore points/removed rollback ability after 10 days. Microsoft has refused to admit there are any issues. Plex does not work.

Before I formatted and fresh installed the shit update, my computer was nonfunctioning. No ability to rollback to something that had to be deleted.

None of these issues happened before the DAU.

The common denominator, the DAU.

 

[gourimoko]

I didn't think you could turn off auto updates on Windows 10. If you can, I've never found an option. Only the defer option if you have Win10 Pro.

As for why I'm doing a fresh install of the last build(1151)? There is no other option for me at this point. Anniversary update deletes restore points/removed rollback ability after 10 days. Microsoft has refused to admit there are any issues. Plex does not work.

Before I formatted and fresh installed the shit update, my computer was nonfunctioning. No ability to rollback to something that had to be deleted.

None of these issues happened before the DAU.

The common denominator, the DAU.

http://www.howtogeek.com/224471/how-to-prevent-windows-10-from-automatically-downloading-updates/

Or, as I stated earlier, you can use WSUS to have a more surgical approach.

 

[Man Called X]

http://www.howtogeek.com/224471/how-to-prevent-windows-10-from-automatically-downloading-updates/

Or, as I stated earlier, you can use WSUS to have a more surgical approach.

WSUS was how I planned on doing it.

 

[BMAN]

Fucking nerds...