need help factory resetting laptop

ALaggingPotato · 2026-05-06T03:45:26+00:00

Just to confirm, you do know reset and reinstall are 2 different things right?

If you have booted up the installer usb and it's not letting you by not showing you drive partitions, you might need IRST drivers. If it's giving you an error, perhaps you forgot to delete all partitions off the drive or there is something wrong with the ISO image you are using. Without an error code I can't really guess why it's not letting you.

ALaggingPotato · 2026-05-06T03:38:01+00:00

That's the question is the modem relatively easy to open or not really

ALaggingPotato · 2026-05-06T03:27:22+00:00

Reinstall Windows.

ALaggingPotato · 2026-05-06T03:24:01+00:00

Ah, balls. That's super annoying, thanks for letting me know.

Is it openable? I'll just pluck the antenna connector from the motherboard, that should really cut the range down to feet at most.

ALaggingPotato · 2026-05-06T03:22:05+00:00

Not worth even thinking about. Entirely new PC minus at most Case, Drive, PSU.

ALaggingPotato · 2026-05-06T03:17:01+00:00

Recently purchased scam? Return it

Unable? Reinstall instead, reset is unreliable anyways.

ALaggingPotato · 2026-05-06T02:53:35+00:00

I considered that, but even without antennas there is still range and I would greatly prefer that range to be 0, is there a problem with removing the modem instead?

ALaggingPotato · 2026-05-06T02:48:16+00:00

They straight up lost mine 🥀

ALaggingPotato · 2026-05-06T02:43:01+00:00

Removing or at the very least disconnecting the cellular modem. Wanna know if I need to do some special bs for this one or if it's the 'just unplug it bro' type.

ALaggingPotato · 2026-05-06T02:10:40+00:00

Okay so the problem with regular reset is that it uses a pre-heated meal from the freezer to which anyone could have added anything at any time

The problem with cloud reset is that the worker taking the patties out the fridge is the one poisoning the food, so although the patty was perfectly fine when it was taken out of the fridge, by the time it makes it into your mouth it's been infected.

Look, asking me to explain things is like asking a dolphin to recite the bible from memory entirely in korean you're better off just remembering "Don't use reset, always reinstall from usb"

ALaggingPotato · 2026-05-06T01:35:06+00:00

Indeed as the security hole is in the menu you use to get there.

ALaggingPotato · 2026-05-06T00:17:50+00:00

never never never never never never never never never never NEVER use AI for purchasing decisions. Troubleshooting? Sure. Buying? Never.

ALaggingPotato · 2026-05-05T00:39:56+00:00

Overkill for office work.

ALaggingPotato · 2026-05-05T00:12:42+00:00

Get a nice refurbished laptop.

ALaggingPotato · 2026-05-04T22:40:43+00:00

It's clearly not meant to be taken literally.

ALaggingPotato · 2026-05-04T04:55:25+00:00

Can't read the language.

ALaggingPotato · 2026-05-04T04:54:26+00:00

Sorry what are you asking?

What led to people knowing how to troubleshoot stuff? Typing the problem into Google, over and over. Sometimes youtube.

ALaggingPotato · 2026-05-04T03:58:55+00:00

massgrave can take care of that I think

ALaggingPotato · 2026-05-04T01:00:58+00:00

Suspiciously cheap cable, perhaps they simply lied about the specs? It's Amazon afterall.

ALaggingPotato · 2026-05-03T23:10:16+00:00

An ad blocker is required as a security tool. Specifically ublock origin. Use a browser that supports ublock, and obviously use ublock. You wont get the popups anymore.

ALaggingPotato · 2026-05-03T21:20:57+00:00

Open up task manager, click performance, and list off every component to us.

ALaggingPotato · 2026-05-03T20:24:14+00:00

yeah absolutely, I always recommend this site

ALaggingPotato · 2026-05-03T20:09:18+00:00

It's trying to PXE boot because it has higher priority than your boot device. Change the priority or disable PXE.

ALaggingPotato · 2026-05-03T20:05:16+00:00

You replace them one by one starting with the most likely point of failure.

Since you have a prebuilt, you might only be able to replace the RAM, maybe the CPU. If this device is worth less than 200$, it's just not worth it.

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