Re: [tlug] Windows and motherboards

[Furkan Mustafa <furkan@example.com>]

On 2024/10/27 2:39, Raymond Wan wrote:
> I took the hard drives out and plugged them
> into a computer of similar age (probably 7 years?).  I think I had to
> switch them to Legacy from UEFI in order to read the drives.
>
> Anyway, Windows started briefly and then I got a blue screen of death
> in both cases.  Very strange for hard disks that should be working.
> My only guess is that they were tied to the motherboard (something
> that started with Windows 7?).  But the BSOD didn't give me a helpful
> error message.
>
> Why I thought of this while reading Steve's message is that booting
> off a USB drive and/or swapping hard disks with another computer were
> "standard" troubleshooting steps that we would do with a broken
> [desktop] computer.  So infuriating that this no longer works.  :-(
> Thanks, Microsoft...

Windows doesn't cope well with hardware changes. (eg. suddenly
being booted on a different machine)

Sometimes booting into safe mode helps, internet people say. ymmv

Furkan Mustafa
https://rainlab.co.jp