Falcon said:
i did those and actually got windows running, once. then the motherboard itself failed to post after a regular windows shutdown.
windows is fixed, the computer still acts goofy tho
If the PC doesn’t POST for ANY reason, it’s either a bad BIOS config or bad hardware. By itself, Windows WILL NOT prevent your computer from POSTing, and I challenge you to find any linux fanboys who will tell you otherwise. The only times that Windows will prevent a POST is when you have overclocked from Windows incorrectly or failed at a reflash.
The proceedure I’ve listed has fixed several dozen of the errors like you’ve got. I believe I’ve only had to reformat on 2 of out those I’ve tried it on and those also had a corrupted registry and the backups didn’t take.