I am limited on my budget here too, of course. I am at a loss and really fed up.to the point where I would seriously consider trading in this model for a 2014 or something with 8g of ram like mine. but since the problem seems to only occur on the NEWER builds, I am afraid it will not help. I was HOPING that the new build of windows (which was supposed to come out last month and was/is going to be called build 2004 from what I have heard) would solve this. so I got frustrated again and deleted my windows partition with bootcamp once again. but I guess I disabled too many things because now not only can I not get into normal mode, but I am having trouble getting into safe mode. I even tried going into the device manager in safe mode and disabling anything I thought could help, such as display adapter, network adapter, sound adapters, etc.anything at all that I would imagine is using an apple driver from the bootcamp software. I can't install the windows bootcamp software from safe mode as it says the windows installer is not running in safe mode. So then I restarted a few times from that screen until windows brings me to the AUTOMATIC REPAIR screen at which point I can choose to go into safe mode, or even safe mode with networking.both work fine.which leads me to believe this HAS to be some kind of driver issue, but I can't figure out what it is. mouse and keyboard would stop moving, the on-screen time would seem to stand still forever.the only sign of life I had was my capslock button light would come on and off if I toggle it, but that's it. I even tried doing windows updates to see if they could update to the newer builds, and they did seem to install but upon the last reboot, the Windows logon screen would lockup about 5 seconds after I arrived. (fwiw I always use BootCamp assistant in the hopes that it would be more compatible). a few billion hours of trial and error later revealed that these same builds I could UPGRADE to would also allow me to do a fresh install using that same build. I think the first build was 1511, then 1609, then maybe 1709 (forgive me if I am misquoting the build numbers as its been a while)… I found that if I updated them build by build from one build to the next, it continued to work until about the 3rd or 4th build.and then that's when it failed. So I got my hands on a copy of the first few original builds of Windows 10 and found, to my surprise, that this worked seemingly flawlessly. The current build WILL NOT install for me. I kept running into the same issues as you. I too have a freshly installed Catalina from the internet recovery install. I have tried the original apple 256g m.2 drive that it came with, and have also tried a 128gb and a 512gb one as well. I've been trying for over three months, lol.
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