downgrade to 7, and transfer to laptop

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

What do I need to do, and can it be done?

Laptop is having reboot issues with an OEM Windows 10 Pro 64b.

My game PC is an OEM Windows 7 64b Pro that has been upgraded to Windows 10.

The laptop is a family members and they need it back.

I've installed Windows 10 6 times on the laptop and the same issue comes up. Fresh reformatted installs.

Can I remove the Windows 7 to 10 upgrade on my game machine and install it (Windows 7) on the laptop, and transfer the Windows 10 from the Laptop onto the game machine?

 

[mvbighead]

Not likely. Typically, a license is assigned to a set of hardware. Trying to get around that is not advised usually.

When you say reboot issues... blue screens? Any sort of logs or information you can use to determine the problem source? I would assume some device that is not compatible. Check and disable devices that are iffy (card readers/etc). Also, run memtest+ to ensure you don't have memory issues deep in there somewhere.

And, look for a BIOS update to the laptop. The problem you are seeing may have been corrected.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Not likely. Typically, a license is assigned to a set of hardware. Trying to get around that is not advised usually.

When you say reboot issues... blue screens? Any sort of logs or information you can use to determine the problem source? I would assume some device that is not compatible. Check and disable devices that are iffy (card readers/etc). Also, run memtest+ to ensure you don't have memory issues deep in there somewhere.

And, look for a BIOS update to the laptop. The problem you are seeing may have been corrected.

No BSOD

Reboot/Restart hangs. Cold boot will work sometimes.

Gonna look into the bios, and possibly run MemtestHCI. It might be an issue with the power config

 

[mvbighead]

No BSOD

Reboot/Restart hangs. Cold boot will work sometimes.

Gonna look into the bios, and possibly run MemtestHCI. It might be an issue with the power config

If it is a laptop, make sure it is set to powersaving. The high performance settings typically lock a CPU to use full power 100% of the time, and laptops are not designed to run that way typically. Back in my PC working days, had repeated customers with high-performance set on the laptop and the fan would be running full force all the time (loud). Set it to Balanced/PowerSaving and the CPU throttles down accordingly and the system runs cool.

May also be wise to blow/vacuum the system from the ports to try and remove any dust if the device is getting warm.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

The only thing I changed in the power settings is for the screen, hard drive, and a few other things not to sleep or shut down.

I cleaned the system out when I had it apart when I was changing the power adapter.

Just flashed the bios. It was out dated by 3 or 4 bios updates. Gonna reboot and see what happens.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Reboot works. It might have been the bios. I'll be fooling around with it and report back later.

Thank you 🙂

 

[mvbighead]

Sweet! Hope it continues to work well for you.