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Ironsfan

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#311424 14-Jan-2024 15:40
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Last night the graphics of my pc went pixelated. Tried the repair options but nothing would work as in I could not use the options as the system said I needed to login as admin but it says there is no admin account. Today I put another graphics card in and this cleared up the pixel problem. However the system will not run and I can still not use any of the repair options. I even put a windows 10 usb stick in to try a repair from that but it does not even see it. 

 

Spent hours on google on another computer but nothing has worked.

 

If you have some idea as to what is going on please reply as your help would be most appreciated.

 

 

 

 


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  #3181762 14-Jan-2024 17:14
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Did you boot the system with the repair stick inserted? That's something that needs to happen at startup. If you're lucky it will happen automatically when you start.

If not, then depending on the system you might also need to change an EFI option to allow it to boot from USB, or it might show you that option automatically during startup.



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  #3181897 14-Jan-2024 22:04
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Had forgotten to change boot order in bios. Can now get to safe mode with command prompt however I still can not get an admin account loaded. Have used net user "name" /add and that added an account. I then ran net localgroup administrators "name" /add but not matter what I do, I can not change it to an admin account. Shows as global group membership "none". The standard admin account is the same. 


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  #3181899 14-Jan-2024 22:52
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Does your machine have integrated graphics? Boot with just that might have success if it's enabled in efi.



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  #3182481 15-Jan-2024 22:06
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Well today I gave up and have wiped the drive and reinstalling windows. And of course, update after update.


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