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Question Need help with graphics problem

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jamesdsimone

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I have a computer at the office that stays on because it is setup to receive faxes. The problem is that if the power goes out which it does frequently when it is restarted it boots but the screen flashes so it is unusable. It has done this several times and I have been able to get it to boot to a stable desktop but I am not sure what the problem is and what I did to get it up and running except rebooting multiple times. Once it has booted to desktop it works fine. Any suggestions
 
Have you run any kind of diagnostics check on it? It could be a lot of things from the description. Is it using a discrete video card or is it an iGPU? If it's the latter, I'd run a memory diagnostics check because a failing RAM module seems like a distinct possibility.
 
Mopetar said:
Have you run any kind of diagnostics check on it? It could be a lot of things from the description. Is it using a discrete video card or is it an iGPU? If it's the latter, I'd run a memory diagnostics check because a failing RAM module seems like a distinct possibility.
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I was finally able to get it to a stable desktop. I was able to boot into safe mode to the cmd prompt and when I rebooted it started normally. It has integrated graphics, i5-3470. It runs without any problems once it boots normally. I'll run memory diagnostic. Replacing it is not a problem but it would be a major headache transferring all the data.
 
jamesdsimone said:
Replacing it is not a problem but it would be a major headache transferring all the data.
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the ONLY way i found that was the use of DISM – windows own tool – to INJECT drivers in an existing windows image/partition.


DISM starts from a cmd-console, therefore you have to boot your new computer with WindowsPE on a USB-stick.
Prepare a USB-Stick. Store ALL drivers the new hardware platform requires in an extra folder on that stick (e.g. “mydriver”)


Restore your Windows image on your new hardware. This restored image wouldn’t run properly, of course, so don’t start it!
Boot your new hardware with an USB-Stick/WindowsPE
start a cmd console and run DISKPART: you need DISKPART to assign a letter to your windows partition.
type: list disk
type: select disk 0
type: list partition
type: select partition 0 (or whatever partition you restored windows on)
type: assign letter=V (or whatever drive letter you prefer)
Do the same procedure to assign a drive letter to the USB-Stick (e.g. “U”)
type: exit (to leave DISKPART)
type: DISM /image:V: /Add-Driver /driver:U:\mydriver /recurse /forceunsigned


The restored windows partition has now all necessary driver for the new hardware platform injected and should boot without any hassle!

Have not tried that but if the dism command works, that would be cool. You can use clonezilla for the cloning.
 
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