What Happened
This afternoon my laptop froze randomly, waited for a minute, didn't respond so I'm like stuff it, pressed power button for 7 seconds to turn it off.
Turned it back on, won't turn on anymore, It was stuck in a reboot loop with the generic windows message "Your pc ran into a problem and needs restarting....."
So I'm like my bad luck, I'll clean install windows again, so I plug in my bootable USB with windows installation, won't boot, stuck on black screen. That's weird, this usb is 3 years old so I'm like maybe just stopped working. Went to make a new bootable drive but Microsoft's website needs the product key for that.
I got another bootable USB to restore product keys from systems that can't boot from Lazesoft, tried booting from this USB, doesn't work. screen stays black. however the same USB works on my desktop PC
What I've Tried
- Tried a lot to enter/trigger advanced startup options through various methods
- Thought of running safemode through bootable USB's windows installation but didn't boot
- last option to clean reinstall windows but again the installation USB didn't boot
- tried booting another USB with another software, didn't boot, screen stays blank/black
Specs:
CPU: Intel i7 7700hq
GPU: nVidia 960m
M.2: 250gb
HDD: 1TB
Ram: 8GB
OS: Windows 8.1 Pro
also has a optical drive if it helps anyone
PS: had a windows update early morning, besides that it was normal everyday university work and general PC use.