Hi Mike,
Wow! an i7 core; very nice. Thanks very much for posting back your system specs!! Your system is quite a bit newer than the one I'm using. In fact, my best system is 6 years old; 2008. The Dell I am using is 8 years old used for my 10041 as above specs are:
DELL DIMENSION E520
CPU: Intel Core2 Duo 4300 CPU @1.80GHz; L2=2MB.
Chipset: Intel P965/G965; Southbridge: 82801H(IC8DH).
BIOS: Dell v2.3.2; 3/30/2007.
Video: NVIDIA GeFORCE 7300LE; 128MB Shared RAM.
Audio: Intel HD Audio.
RAM: 4GB-DDR2; PC2-5300.
HDD: Seagate ST3200826AS, SATA II-200GB.
Network: Intel 82562V 10/100 Ethernet embedded.
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For you and for the other people who are Win10 early adopters using the Tech Previews, I found a couple of odd glitches might be worth mentioning from my Presentation run-through yesterday at my Computer Club.
#1: When trying to run SAFE MODE anti-virus/anti-spyware scans, SAFE MODE locks up the keyboard and mouse as well as the START MENU. Tried 3 times to exit using Task Manager and other methods; nothing worked, so I had to completely reinstall Win10 Build 10041 after wiping the HDD completely.
#2: The reinstall of Win10 is similar to Win8/8.1 in that just booting off the install disk will not start the reinstallation program, it just bypasses the CD/DVD drive altogether. This is similar to newer machines that use UEFI BIOS and have the Starup of a removable device defaulted from the factory. This machine however has no UEFI BIOS; so I had to use GPARTED CONTROL to reformat the entire drive to NTFS. Once done, the Win10 reinstalled nicely as before.
#3: IE11 hangs after 3-10 seconds of use and doesn't seem to work. This is the new SPARTAN browser, which was not the same IE version as in Build 9926. It is supposed to be an early release of SPARTAN, but it's quite interesting that they didn't call it IE12 as advertised. It's 11.0.10010.1 I think. Anyway, that's not working at all. Perhaps M$ will relabel the IE release number to IE12 when the RTM occurs in June-August timeframe.
I do need to let everyone know that the Seagate 200GB HDD I grabbed for this test, did have a number of read sector erros on it, and it came from a Customer machine. So, it's not in pristine condition. The HDD I used for the earlier 9926 Build was also used but was in much better shape. It's entirely possible that Items #1 & #3 could be caused by a poor quality HDD. But, I wanted everyone to know that was a possibility. But the other 2 HDDs in this machine; 1 for Win10 Build 9926, and Win7 Home Premium 64bit work perfectly.
I have ordered a brand new 120GB SSD drive for the Build 10041 test, as I would like to know whether or not these 2 failures are related to a bad HDD, or that the Build 10041 software is simply flawed. I will post back to this thread in a week or so and report my observatioins.
I was wondering how your IE11(SPARTAN) browser worked, or if it worked on your succesful rebuild? Also, Chrome worked perfectly; did not test Firefox as I don't use that frequently.
Thanks again for this very helpful thread. Have a great week.
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