changes i make in my pc such as updating a game or a driver reverts itself after i reboot my pc, any

[elder skiff]

is this a PC owned by your school?

This seems like your pc has an automatic restore going on when its booting up.

[vestal scaffold]

No, its my personal pc , can i change this automatic restore in any way?

[elder skiff]

no clue 🤷‍♂️ what you changed to make this happen

[vestal scaffold]

Nothing, just had a valorant update so pressed update ofc and restarted pc after and seen it was still there after i logged back on

[elder skiff]

so its just valorant?

also how much drive space left?

if you do not have enough drive space it might not be able to install.

[vestal scaffold]

No, any change i make e.g geforce update, changing refresh rate etc. I have enough disk space.

[elder skiff]

What programs you have on the pc that might trigger this behaviour ?

This is not normal

[vestal scaffold]

Nothing out of the ordinary, couple games, discord, spotify etc.. all the usual stuff

[elder skiff]

Great so its just usual

Will mark as resolved since its usual and we do not need to go through that list, since its usual.

[vestal scaffold]

But its not resolved?

[elder skiff]

but I do not get information? 😮

so I cannot resolve it

so its resolved 😄

Yes, call me childish but I do 20 of these a day volentary.

[vestal scaffold]

I've answered all your questions the best I can, if you dont want to help me then please remove the reaction to the post and let someone else handle it.

[elder skiff]

Great, what applications are you running when this is happening?

what is on the background?

You have to check them ALL

because you have no idea 😄 .

[vestal scaffold]

want me to list all 50 background processes that are currently running?

[elder skiff]

just screenshot the running programs

Windows Shift S and select that portion of the screen

Ctrl + C -> and Ctrl + V , Yeets it in here.

dont want you to do labor 🤷‍♂️ just simple copy paste suffices

[vestal scaffold]

Background process, apps or windows processes? 3 sections in task manager

[vestal scaffold]

yeah was going to do that anyway, just confirrming which ones you want me to send in

[elder skiff]

Well as much info is handy

I would go for the processes

[vestal scaffold]

Then after that its 85 windows processes, let me know if u want to see those

[elder skiff]

I would just straight up remove all razer crap of the pc

what a mouso core worker process?

Game manager service?

o.0 so much bloatware on there

open up msconfig -> Services -> click on "Hide all microsoft services" and remove all you dont need, and remove all things Razer for now.

[vestal scaffold]

"It controls which updates must be installed first and which can be installed later." according to google

[vestal scaffold]

something to do with Razer

[vestal scaffold]

I done this and removed the razer stuff and anything else i dont need, it required a pc restart and after i restarted its all checked the boxes again

nearly everything that could potentially help me requires a pc restart, and once i do restart it resets back to before, its like im stuck in the past or something

[elder skiff]

🤔

well did you remove all the services ?

like I said?

[vestal scaffold]

Yeah i remove them, and after i restart they come back again

After i press apply it pops up a screen either restart now or later

[bright gust]

buy a new pc

👍

[vestal scaffold]

Thanks

could it may be corruption in my SSD @elder skiff ? Just now i tried opening Nvidia control panel which is saved in the same SSD as windows and i got the error message "The system has attempted to load or restore a file into the registry, but the specified file is not in a registry file format."

Just scanned the drive in properties > tools > Error checking, and it found an issue , asks me to repair and restart so i did and the issue is well.. obviously still here after the restart

[elder skiff]

Yes offcourse it could be 🤷‍♂️

[vestal scaffold]

i tried unplugging it earlier and booting windows on a USB but it would just give me a black screen with a blinking white line (like in image)

constant loop of issues it seems

[bright gust]

rip bro 🙏💀

[vestal scaffold]

you having fun bud

[bright gust]

yes actually 💀

[vestal scaffold]

👍

[elder skiff]

Might need a new ssd 🤔

[vestal scaffold]

ive got another one here.

[vestal scaffold]

but how can i install windows on it if it gives me this screen when trying to boot up with creation tool on usb

[elder skiff]

how did you install the usb?

with the windows creation media tool?

[vestal scaffold]

yeah

[upper dirge]

No do a file backup and fresh install

[bright gust]

bro took me seriously 😭

[vestal scaffold]

Cant perform a fresh install if it requires me to restart the pc at the end

Which will just reset the progress of the install

[upper dirge]

Buy a new ssd and install windows on that

see if that works

[vestal scaffold]

I have a new ssd, cant install windows as booting the media creation tool on a usb doesnt work

[upper dirge]

Do you have a 2nd computer, laptop, etc?

[vestal scaffold]

laptop yea

[upper dirge]

Try using the tool on that to make the boot usb

[vestal scaffold]

the boot usb is made, i made it on the laptop

[upper dirge]

Oh ok

[vestal scaffold]

it just gives me this screen when i try to boot on it, or if i choose UEFI USB in boot override in bios it just makes my screen go black for 1 second then back to the bios

[upper dirge]

Try updating the bios on your motherboard. Find the motherboard manufacturers webpage and download the latest bios.

Then put it on a usb and plug it into your desktop and update the bios

Maybe that will fix the windows install issue

[lyric shuttle]

As a temporary thing, disable secureboot and see if you can uefi boot then

if it does boot, you just need to clear keys or make exception for efi file with it enabled

[vestal scaffold]

i'll update the bios first like what @upper dirge was saying, if im still stuck then ill try this

[upper dirge]

What motherboard do you have?

Just curious

[vestal scaffold]

B450M DS3H

[upper dirge]

What’s the manufacturer

[lyric shuttle]

gigabyte

[upper dirge]

👍

[vestal scaffold]

Bios update done, required a reboot and after the reboot its still on the new update

So thats good news

Ill go into windows and check if i can update / check if changes will save now

[upper dirge]

Yeah that’s good. I’d be very surprised if it reverted a bios update. I was assuming the update issue was only windows related

[vestal scaffold]

You never know, would be typical for it to happen to me 😂

[vestal scaffold]

still the same error codes.

[upper dirge]

Now try reinstalling windows to that new ssd

[vestal scaffold]

From google or USB

[upper dirge]

Usb

[vestal scaffold]

Will it automatically over write the windows i have on my other ssd

Or do you recommend i unplug the ssd with windows on it

[upper dirge]

Yes, unplug it

Just to be safe

[vestal scaffold]

Got a blue screen error half way through making the usb lol

[upper dirge]

Ooof

[vestal scaffold]

Same thing, uefi wont work and normal usb is blinking white line

Ill try disable secureboot

Disabling secureboot doesnt make a difference @lyric shuttle

[elder skiff]

what is crystaldiskinfo saying?

download it and try? mightr have a bad SSD / HDD

[vestal scaffold]

Health status is Good on all 3 of my drives

[elder skiff]

screenshots?

[elder skiff]

yeah well, just straight up reinstall windows 🤔

if after this long , you are still struggling with this issue.

@vestal scaffold

[vestal scaffold]

i literally cant lol.

whenever it forces to restart pc at the end

it just disappears

the reinstall progress.

[elder skiff]

yeah Well your SSD is screwed in that case

SOLIDIFIED 😄

Is that a thing?

YES

[vestal scaffold]

yea

[elder skiff]

it means it cannot write anymore 😦

only solution is buy a new SSD.

[vestal scaffold]

i have a new one

well not new

but

2nd one

[elder skiff]

Well remove this SSD.

Its literally garbage

maybe you can get some data off it, but I would not trust it.

[vestal scaffold]

i dont have anything major on it

windows and Riot games i think is all there is on it

[elder skiff]

ah ok , just remove it from the PC (physically) and insert the new SSD in there.

[vestal scaffold]

but i cant install windows on the new SSD as i cant boot up with USB

[elder skiff]

wait you made the USB on this pc?

[vestal scaffold]

although i could boot up with windows 8.1 media creation tool earlier on today

[vestal scaffold]

tried both this pc and laptop

[elder skiff]

use the laptop to make the windows 10 creation media tool

[vestal scaffold]

ill try again

[vestal scaffold]

@elder skiff u here

[elder skiff]

yeah

you said you try again ? 😮

so Im waiting for the result?

[vestal scaffold]

Custom install or upgrade

Im on windows setup menu

[elder skiff]

well custom install

[vestal scaffold]

Installing now, ill let u know how it goes

Fingers crossed it should save after the restart considering the other ssd is SOLIDIFIED

[elder skiff]

yeah its not really the term, but after a certain amount of writes it just sticks in that way

🤷‍♂️ its how some SSD may, be

Had that happen to an old evo 860 of mine.

[vestal scaffold]

Lasted me long enough, i had it for a while

Pc is restarting now

Yeah setting up windows now, looks all good it didnt go back in time @elder skiff

😁😁

[elder skiff]

Good

Well hjave fun 😄 I consider this fixed

[vestal scaffold]

Yeah id say it is for now, ill confirm it when im done the setup so that the thread can be closed

Changed my refresh rate in nvidia control panel and restarted my pc to test if the changes were still reverting and theyre not, the refresh rate stayed the same!

@upper dirge @lyric shuttle @elder skiff thanks guys for the help

This is resolved.