Help Me!!! (in screechy falsetto voice from The Fly) I'm trying to do a reset of my son's WIN 10

[abqtommy]

puter since we got the Blue Screen Of Death this morning. I'm at the point where the screen will
indicate 88% complete then the monitor will display No Signal while the power light either flashes
or stays on steady. I've shut the thing off and on a few times but come back to what I just described What can I expect now?

[PCIntern]

1. As Clubber Lang said in Rocky3:

Pain.

[CottonBear]

2. You should post this in the Computer Help and Support Group:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1095

[abqtommy]

3. Thanks, will do...

[Midnightwalk]

4. Here's a couple links

A couple ideas. You don’t know if it’s a hardware of software issue. First try to get the computer up in setup/bios mode. There may be a message saying something like push F1 while booting. Could be a different key.
[link:https://www.pcworld.com/article/241032/how-to-enter-your-pcs-bios.amp.html|]

If you can’t get there it’s probably a hardware issue.

You can try to get windows up in safe mode. You
Can find articles and videos looking for “boot pc in safe mode”. Here’s the Microsoft link
[link:https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/12376/windows-10-start-your-pc-in-safe-mode|]

Good luck.

[abqtommy]

5. Thanks, I already got in Safe Mode by pushing F4 and got a nifty menu. Finally wound up

doing Reset but I'm not sure I'll live long enough for it to complete...

[monmouth4]

6. OMG, "Safe Mode"..Got stuck in there a while back and took me ages to get out. Called the daughter

of a friend and she talked me through it. I'm askeered of SM..lol.

[Disaffected]

7. A long shot but

if you have not done so, try unplugging the computer power cord for a few seconds (rather than just using the on/off button).

[abqtommy]

8. Hey, that did help! It booted and let me enter pin and now it's installing whatever update I deleted

[Disaffected]

9. Cool,

completely shutting off power probably reset something in the power supply or BIOS(?). It has worked for me a couple of times.

[abqtommy]

10. Thanks. Up and running still lots to do but sonny boy has his yugioh going and I'm heading for a

nap.

[Disaffected]

11. Yer welcome :)

Take the nap - sounds like you've earned it!

[Demsrule86]

13. Good news!!! Updates cause the blue and sometime black screen of death also.

[Demsrule86]

12. Use Linux to save your files unless you have them backed up...also do you have a copy of windows 10?

You can download Linux onto a memory stick...make it bootable.