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Hi,
I have old macs running Win10 x64 (1809) just fine:
- iMac12,2 (Radeon HD 6970M)
- 2x iMac11,3 (Radeon HD 5750)
- 3x macMini5,2 (Radeon HD 6630M)
These are old machine and I needed to manually select the driver for the GPU since the driver automatically selected by Windows didn't work so well... But again, everything runs smoothly on 1809. ...Well, except that I had to disable sleep on the iMacs, otherwise the monitor wouldn't turn back on (still reachable via VNC/RDP, though) but that's just a detail...
Now I tried to update to 1903 and it seemed to go fine. I can reach the login screen (and stay there for hours...) and everything is OK until I enter the password.
When I enter the password, I can see the desktop for a couple seconds and then the computer crashes (either a graphic glitch-> reboot, or an error message->reboot).
I thought : "Well windows tried to update the GPU driver and now everything is screwed up"... (but is the GPU driver really only loaded after the user logs in? I assumed it would be loaded sooner during the boot process.)
I rebooted into safe mode and went to the device manager. There were a bunch of yellow triangles now:
- monitor (generic non-PNP)
- GPU
- Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth
- AMD high definition Audio device
- Cirrus Logic CS4206A (AB24)
- Microsoft Hyper-V Virtualization Infrastructure Driver
Well... that doesn't look promising...
On the iMac11,3, I tried to manually replace the GPU driver (in safe mode) by the one for the Radeon HD 5750 (picked from a list) but upon reboot I don't get any improvement (graphic glitch -> reboot)...
- Because of the monitor driver issue?
- Because of the other driver issues?
I then rolled back to 1809 and tried the following:
- Prevent windows from updating the GPU driver according to this method (group policies):
However, after updating to 1903 again, I still get the same issue. And now the GPU is detected as a generic VGA adapter in safe mode.
- Does this mean the method to prevent driver update didn't work?
- Does this mean the problem is not only dependent on the GPU driver issue?
I don't know what to try now. I am not sure what the cause(s) of my problem(s) is/are.
Can anyone help me sort all that mess out?
Thank you very much in advance for your help.
Best,
-a-
PS: I know this is not a windows site and I understand if nobody wants to help me out but I know some of you smart guys out there may know how to troubleshoot this.
I have old macs running Win10 x64 (1809) just fine:
- iMac12,2 (Radeon HD 6970M)
- 2x iMac11,3 (Radeon HD 5750)
- 3x macMini5,2 (Radeon HD 6630M)
These are old machine and I needed to manually select the driver for the GPU since the driver automatically selected by Windows didn't work so well... But again, everything runs smoothly on 1809. ...Well, except that I had to disable sleep on the iMacs, otherwise the monitor wouldn't turn back on (still reachable via VNC/RDP, though) but that's just a detail...
Now I tried to update to 1903 and it seemed to go fine. I can reach the login screen (and stay there for hours...) and everything is OK until I enter the password.
When I enter the password, I can see the desktop for a couple seconds and then the computer crashes (either a graphic glitch-> reboot, or an error message->reboot).
I thought : "Well windows tried to update the GPU driver and now everything is screwed up"... (but is the GPU driver really only loaded after the user logs in? I assumed it would be loaded sooner during the boot process.)
I rebooted into safe mode and went to the device manager. There were a bunch of yellow triangles now:
- monitor (generic non-PNP)
- GPU
- Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth
- AMD high definition Audio device
- Cirrus Logic CS4206A (AB24)
- Microsoft Hyper-V Virtualization Infrastructure Driver
Well... that doesn't look promising...
On the iMac11,3, I tried to manually replace the GPU driver (in safe mode) by the one for the Radeon HD 5750 (picked from a list) but upon reboot I don't get any improvement (graphic glitch -> reboot)...
- Because of the monitor driver issue?
- Because of the other driver issues?
I then rolled back to 1809 and tried the following:
- Prevent windows from updating the GPU driver according to this method (group policies):
How to Prevent Windows from Automatically Updating Specific Drivers
Windows--especially Windows 10--has a bad habit of installing new updates for hardware drivers whether you want them or not.
www.howtogeek.com
- Does this mean the method to prevent driver update didn't work?
- Does this mean the problem is not only dependent on the GPU driver issue?
I don't know what to try now. I am not sure what the cause(s) of my problem(s) is/are.
Can anyone help me sort all that mess out?
Thank you very much in advance for your help.
Best,
-a-
PS: I know this is not a windows site and I understand if nobody wants to help me out but I know some of you smart guys out there may know how to troubleshoot this.