Updating to Windows 10 version 1803 freezes on the Windows logo upon reboot

Anonymous
2018-05-03T03:35:15+00:00

I've tried using Windows Update, repairing Windows update, using Windows Media Tool to create a bootable USB for a clean install, unplugging all peripherals including mouse and keyboard, reseting BIOS settings to defaults. No matter what I try, when booting to setup after installation through Windows Update, or when booting from the USB ISO the system hangs on the Windows logo for hours with no spinning dots and no hard drive activity. All I can do it hit the reset button. When trying to install via Windows Update and having to do a hard reset when it locks up, the resulting error code I find is 0xc1900101.

i7 965

ASUS P6T Deluxe

12GB RAM

310GB Free on OS drive

SoundBlaster Z

Nvidia GeForce GTX 970

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Install and upgrade

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-07-03T13:49:01+00:00

    VMware Workstation is what I use to test on various hosts - particularly easy to keep "virgin" systems. It runs nearly as fast as a native system, since I use SSDs. I also have customers that use VMs, so being able to test there is a plus.

    As for VitualBox, tried it once, seemed fine. VMware people have a decade of experience over them, plus, well, it's Oracle, so you never know when they'll pull back on the access like they did with Java.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-07-03T05:54:39+00:00

    isn't it a bit overkill to use VMWare (I guess it's vSphere Hypervisor?) on a desktop board? VirtualBox seems as more obvious choice to me.

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-07-03T03:45:30+00:00

    :-)

    I poured through discussion groups mentioning difficulty with VT-d. Are you using VMware too? That's probably the only reason to keep it on for higher performance virtualization, as far as I know.

    Tiran

    6FootMedia

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-07-03T03:11:03+00:00

    May I ask how on earth you tracked this to VT-d?  Worked great for me as well, but that seems unguessable to me!

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-07-03T02:57:47+00:00

    I have the same problem with an HP z200 workstation. I watched my machine spin for 5 hours before looking around for a possible issue. Disabling VT-d did the trick immediately.

    I use VMWare quite a bit and am unsure if disabling this feature will slow down VM operation or make shared devices unusable; at present I find that networking continues to perform, but I have not tested printers or other external devices.

    usoft needs to get on this!!!

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