It looks like an internet or dns name resolution problem. (get.activated.win could not be resolved) Can you ping that site?
why did it work the third time? I didn't change anything. Do those errors state that the site is blocked or unavailable? I think it said there were other errors. BTW, the laptop I just installed 10ent IoT is not booting again. Startup repair did not work. There is no system restore point. What else can i try? I think it may have to do with antivirus checking preboot for malware or something like that.
Not boot how exactly? Not starting from SSD at all?? Error message during startup? Locking up/error during the Windows startup sceen/logo? Also you should turn off secure boot if it is activated. This can give sometimes problems on (not only) older systems when Windows tries to update Secure Boot certificates.
I'm getting really baffled here. You say the laptop will once again no longer boot, then in the next post you ping the get.activated.io site - was that with the same laptop? Or different device on the same internet provider? Have you run memory and disk diagnostics on that troublesome laptop?
I allowed some kind of boot scan with Bitdefender I think it was. I rebooted and it would not boot. The older laptop has 24h2 wn11 ioT and has no problems. This laptop has win10 ioT. This is the one with problems. This thread is about this laptop. I just reset windows and it's running now.
I'm getting a lot of blue screens. They seem to happen when I play videos through Firefox. It would blue screen then reboot automatically only to say there is no operating system. I then shut it off and restart it and it boots up until I play another video. I have gone to HP and downloaded the graphic driver which is older than the driver I had installed but it still crashes. Here are some screenshots of event viewer if anyone sees or knows what the problem is.
lynchknot did not mean to offend, or discourage you from asking for help here, it's what these forums are are about and for. But just a bare bones Operating System install has an enormous number of moving targets that can be a source of conflicts & issues from: specific hardware, firmware and how it's configured. We still don't have your system specifications, what firmware version your running , driver versions or a list of software you've installed. Everyone is trying to help you trouble shoot in a situation not unlike asking a mechanic to find out what's wrong with your car blindfolded...
Surely some of the problems of @lynchknot and his troublesome laptop could be self inflicted. But his mention of the swollen battery and damaged keyboard still concern me. There may have been ram sticks, disk drives, or or other electronics boards in close proximity to that battery. I have seen no mention of any hardware diagnostics, ram or disk drive testing, being performed before reinstalling windows. Maybe a good idea to boot some sort of a rescue disk (Sergei strelec??) and run some tests.
And there's so much more: just the UEFI CA 2023 Certificate update/issue and Bitdefender's Ring-O driver alone have have produced issues just like lynchknot's for tens of millions Windows installations, and there's so much more that it could be like bad RAM as the Captain mentions, other software, and obviously hardware like dimensional stress breaking board traces or more typically severing chip package contact from swollen battery -- and we're still black-boxing this...
Not to mention the board itself. The gold/platinum leads on and inside the circuit board are delicate, and some of them are runway-length optimized. Heat can damage them slightly, which changes signal runtimes and can lead to all sorts of hard-to-diagnose issues.
I haven't installed much yet. I've only used 50GB so far. I wasn't able to navigate to system information until this install. The blue screens seems to have stopped. I removed the swollen battery long ago. The damaged key is actually the pgdown key It's the only key that isn't working. I installed Bitdender because AV comparatives gives it high scores. Is there a better alternative? OS Name Microsoft Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC Version 10.0.19044 Build 19044 Other OS Description Not Available OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation System Name DESKTOP-5VG8S11 System Manufacturer HP System Model HP ENVY x360 Convertible 13-y0XX System Type x64-based PC System SKU X7U84UAR#ABA Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7500U CPU @ 2.70GHz, 2904 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s) BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. F.18, 6/29/2020 SMBIOS Version 2.8 Embedded Controller Version 5.11 BIOS Mode UEFI BaseBoard Manufacturer HP BaseBoard Product 82B7 BaseBoard Version 05.11 Platform Role Mobile Secure Boot State On PCR7 Configuration Elevation Required to View Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32 Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1 Locale United States Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "10.0.19041.6456" User Name DESKTOP-5VG8S11\ROMzombi Time Zone Pacific Daylight Time Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 16.0 GB Total Physical Memory 15.9 GB Available Physical Memory 6.87 GB Total Virtual Memory 18.8 GB Available Virtual Memory 7.88 GB Page File Space 2.88 GB Page File C:\pagefile.sys Kernel DMA Protection Off Virtualization-based security Not enabled Device Encryption Support Elevation Required to View Hyper-V - VM Monitor Mode Extensions Yes Hyper-V - Second Level Address Translation Extensions Yes Hyper-V - Virtualization Enabled in Firmware No Hyper-V - Data Execution Protection Yes
I see a multitude of shovelware I'd never install including redundant security software that's bound to create conflicts galore (and parts of itself useless in this setup), slow your system to a crawl, and backdoor everything... Similarly the HP Support Software (unless your employer requires it) is a performance robbing rats nest, and another backdoor to your system and your data. Three browsers and only one that's modestly secure is kind of like putting extra wheels on the car because you have the tools and can... It's not surprising your SSD is in good shape it's your RAM that the Captain and I thought was at greater risk of being a source of the sort of issues you're reporting, though any third party kernel level driver can do this as well -- like Bitdefender.
So what would you remove (bitdefender) and what would you install? I disabled the antivirus in comodo firewall and disabled firewall in bitdefender... I don't think this laptop is crawling. Its running normally right now.