a cn gaming issue on my Mi Mix --- the game froze every 5 ~ 30 minutes for 2 months , April , May

a cn gaming issue on my Mi Mix --- the game froze every 5 ~ 30 minutes for 2 months , April , May

when the freezing happened , phone was bit hot

I complained to game support and Mi-phone support, uploaded log files

surprisingly in late May , the freezing was gone ... interesting

windows 8.1 windows update issues .... updates never finish ... keeps rolling back

so this old notebook running windows 8.1 got 119 updates to install

I triggered the install, but every time it failed

I tried to do it one by one , but it will do the whole lot anyway

now Microsoft got a windows update trouble shooter

https://support.microsoft.com/en-nz/help/10164/fix-windows-update-errors

run the windows update

Run the Windows Update troubleshooter

it fixed a few reg entries

it helped

it still fails if I do the whole lot

but I can do one update one by one, or 10 each time

sometimes ok, sometimes rolling back

I kept running the 

the Windows Update troubleshooter

now the updates to be installed down to 53

what a night

recover windows 8.1 on an old HP laptop --- repair BCD the funny way - and - repair the BSOD the funny way

the old HP  laptop was having weird hardware problems, and last month it had done lost of windows update, then it crashed and burnt big time

the error was horrible .... now its another mission to recover

here are the errors

Your PC needs to restart

Please hold down the power button
Error Code: 0x00000100
Parameters:
0x00000000006
0x00000000003
0x00000000128
0x00000000988

sometimes the machine BSOD as
Recovery
Your PC counldn't start properly
A required device isn't connected or can'be accessed
Error code: 0xc000000f

Press F8 for startup settings

I tried press F8 to select various boot options like safe , no help


You'll need to use the recovery tools on your installation media ....

I tried a recovery usb disc of unkown windows version, sadly the usb media suffered the same problem after the fist boot

I knew this old HP notebook had hardware problems like it will BSOD in summer --- over heating, although its winter here right now

on my windows 10 machine , I downloaded windows 10 from Microsoft, created repair media . But it failed to repair the start up problem , the log file stated wrong version

StorageCraft's shadow protect RE disc come to rescue, run the BCD repair tool ....
the machine booted to BSOD . press F8 .... choose safe mode

interestingly, the machine booted to the full mode ....

shut down the machine , start again, it is working now until next time ....

can't believe what happened

make a bootable usb disc from an ISO file --- rufus is good at the moment

its said to be easy. but not straight forward

tools

rufus

https://rufus.ie/

I have winiso on my windows 10, but not straigthforward

https://www.howtogeek.com/127377/the-best-free-tools-for-creating-a-bootable-windows-or-linux-usb-drive/