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Problem I have a Lenovo Legion 5 Pro laptop that is running Windows 11. I am facing a couple of problems - which seem to be related to each other. For the last month or so, I have started noticing a problem where my laptop would randomly crash and restart. This problem is more frequent when I leave the laptop unattended (not a fixed duration; it can be 3 mins, it can be 10 mins) on battery power. During restart, the laptop would sometimes get stuck in the boot loop. The "Legion" logo would appear along with the loading circle. Then a black screen. Then the same thing appears again. Sometimes, the PC would try to diagnose itself while it is stuck in this boot loop. A text appears that goes something like "Diagnosing problems" (or something similar). I don't think it does anything useful in this scenario, because the boot loop would often continue. After waiting for a while, my laptop eventually boots up successfully. Can someone please help me with this? I am not sure what the problem is. I do have the latest Windows drivers. I would not want to visit the Lenovo technicians near me (I have my own reasons for wanting to avoid it), unless it is the last resort. I would rather "format C drive and reinstall Windows 11", if needed. Notes - 1. I have run `chkdsk` twice; it did not show any errors in particular. 2. I checked my power savings settings. It is set to sleep after 2 hours when on battery. 3. Regarding updating BIOS: The current BIOS version on my laptop is JUCN43WW. The Lenovo website states that there is an update, version JUCN63WW, that was released on Dec 1 2023. They even provide a download link and stuff. However, I am a bit wary about updating the BIOS. What happens if my laptop decides to crash in the middle! Specs AMD Ryzen 7 6800H Nvidia RTX 3070 32GB RAM BIOS: JUCN43WW OS: Windows 11 (with latest drivers, as of writing this post)

For some context, I built my PC in December of 2020. A couple weeks after some use, and some research, I found out that the RAM I had bought was capable of some overclocking. I overclocked my RAM pretty intensely and continued to use my PC for the next few months without any hiccups. However, one day, it suddenly shut off on me, and I couldn't turn it on. After some tinkering, I found out that the computer only worked with one stick of RAM incorrectly slotted in the 4th slot from the left (I believe if you're using only one stick, you put it in the 2nd slot). If I put one stick in the 2nd slot, the CPU debugging light on the motherboard lights up and the computer never boots into Windows. Despite this, I continued using my PC with only one stick of my RAM in the 4th slot, without any problems, but after a couple months, it suddenly shut down on me again. When I tried turning it back on, I was met with a Windows boot loop, specifically the "SrtTrail.txt" error. After completely wiping my SSD and reinstalling Windows 10 and 11 multiple times, nothing has fixed this boot loop and error. I would wipe my SSD, reinstall Windows, go through all of the updates, download all drivers, etc, and after 4-5 restarts, the computer arrives back to the boot loop all the same. As a result, I've personally reached the conclusion that it is not a software issue, but a hardware one. However, I am not sure which specific part(s) is causing this issue. I've already tested the PC with a different set of RAM sticks, and have taken out and put back in the CPU in the motherboard, both of which didn't help. My prime suspects are either the CPU, and/or the motherboard, but I obviously do not have any spare CPU or motherboard lying around to prove which part is broken. If anyone have any insights or suggestions, please let me know, I'm happy to provide any further details if there are any questions.

Hello everyone, Since last night, I've been having the following issue with my PC: it's stuck in a boot loop. When I turn on the PC, it seems to go through the POST, but then it crashes and restarts. On my screen, I briefly see the boot logo, but I can't get to Windows. Here's a video of the issue: https://imgur.com/dxsJ1gv The last q-codes fluctuate between 99 and A0. A0 appears to be the final q-code during POST, after which the operating system would typically start up. Code 99 stands for 'Super IO Initialization', which might indicate that a component is possibly not correctly connected, or that insufficient power is being supplied to a component. I've already tried the following: Unplugging all peripherals. No change. Disconnecting the GPU. No change. Disconnecting all SSDs. No change. Booting with only one RAM stick. No change. Changing the RAM stick's channel. No change. Trying a different RAM stick in one channel. No change. Disconnecting the water pump and fans. No change. Cleared CMOS. No change. It seems like the issue lies with the power supply. I've noticed something interesting. My PSU has a self-test function. If I press the button and the LED turns green, everything is okay. If that's not the case, there might be a problem. Here's what I've observed: When the PSU is completely disconnected from the system, the self-test passes. When the 10-pin ATX cable is connected, the self-test fails. The other cables don't seem to be a problem since the light still turns green with them connected. Here's a video of the self-test behavior: https://imgur.com/BTRDpRs To be honest, I'm not entirely sure what could be wrong. Could there be a short circuit in my motherboard? Could the issue lie with the cable? Or is it perhaps time for a new PSU? Specs: Motherboard: ROG Maximus X Formula PSU: Corsair AX1200i OS: Windows 11 64-bit Thanks in advance for all your help and suggestions!

Stuck in a boot loop. A few minutes after i login even rho theres no issue the windows will keep on restarting. All i did was try to install the nvidia driver.... my computer can only boot cinsistantly into the recovery menu. It blue scrreened and restarted while i installed the driver. Theres no way to boot into desktop and even if i could its not like ubuntu where i could do "sudo apt remove *nvidia* && purge nvidia. I use linux. I only swapped to this os to try to use the drivers for my p102-100. Not to have a broken pc.

Hello, I am getting a BSOD and the error is CRITICAL PROCESS DIED. I can’t seem to be able to reset or do anything the the advances options menu. Safe mode does not work, I will not launch. Is there any fix? I have no data on the drives so if I have to format or us cmd to reset it that is ok.

So, I have upgraded my pc to a R9 7950x with Gigabyte X670E Aorus Master and Corsair 32gb (2x8) DDR5 During initial build/upgrade (2 weeks or so ago). I found that I have ran out of thermal paste. There was a bit left, but I didn't feel like it was enough, despite that I decided to apply what's left and buy some new thermal paste later. PC worked fine, temps ware a *normal for that CPU* at 100% it was at 95c while boosting to 5.35 GHZ (Running with AIO), had some issues with AMD's EXPO mode, to get RAM running at 5600mhz. After I have enabled it, It booted showing only 24gb instead of 32gb. After I did a reboot (It was long, around 5 - 15 min) and re-enabled EXPO, and it was working correctly at 5600mhz. (I did hear a low pitch noise from RAM sticks under load and sometimes in idle) So a few days ago finally ordered well described Noctua NT-H2 paste. It arrived yesterday, today I woke up, I booted up the PC for around 10 min and turned it off again. Waited for about 30 min for it to cool down (just in case). Removed the AIO cooler, cleared old thermal paste, applied new one, assembled everything back, turned it on, and immediately noticed that I didn't plug power & data cables for AIO Pump. Quickly powered off the system (it was running like that for less than 5 seconds). Made sure everything is plugged in. Turned it on again, fans started spinning, everything looked normal, but there wasn't any post codes (I do not remember, if there was any during first "aborted" boot) Onboard numeric display did not show any POST codes, and Q-LED was switching from DRAM to CPU for 1 second, every 10 - 20 secs. After a few minutes in this loop, it goes back to DRAM and stops switching. I was careful when applying thermal paste, I'm sure I did not over tightened the AIO, I have tried using every single DRAM slot with both ram sticks, (except 1st one, AIO pipes covers it), I have q-flashed the BIOS to latest version, I have made sure all the connectors on RAM and ram slots are clear, I have made sure all other connectors are connected properly, I have tried using clear CMOS button & jumper, I have tried unplugging the GPU, I have tried booting completely without any ram sticks, (Same Q-LED indication as booting with ram). I have pulled the board out of the case, and tried booting outside (Not sure what I was expecting, but yea..) I have even gone to disassembling the board's backplate, to gain access to the CMOS battery, but the backplate have tones of thermal compound between it and the actual board, and I thought I might lose warranty if I started pulling that apart despite none of the screws having any "Void if removed" stickers. Tried booting without any coolers attached, so I could feel the CPU, but it wasn't even warming up (I have touched it on the sides, and it was only running for less than 30 sec) USB devices do light up, if trying to run the board completely without CPU, it doesn't even attempt to start. I still think, it might be dead RAM. I did have problems with it, and I did hear low pitch noise when it was working, that noise was really noticeable when under load / stress testing. But I didn't think much of it, since DDR5 has a voltage controller thing on the actual stick that might have been emitting that noise So, what should I do, other than going through RMA? Or what have I done wrong, what could have possibly killed it? P.s. This is way far from my first time upgrading components, replacing thermal paste etc... But never had anything similar.

Hey There, I'm having trouble with my computer when I boot it up. For a good month or so now when I have been booting up my PC my BIOS settings always get reset, my PC doesn't post, and then I have to press the reset button to get it to post and I have to put them back in every time and then my PC then goes through into windows. Now this week, the problem has been getting worse, where I get up to the point where I have to put my BIOS settings back in, then sometimes it just goes through to a black screen (no error codes), sometimes it posts and is loading into windows then shuts itself off again and boot cycles, sometimes the PC has to repair itself, sometimes it just doesn't post at all. I have tried resetting windows 10. My motherboard is an Asus Crosshair VIII Impact, and I have windows installed on 2x Corsair MP510 480gb SSD's in RAID 0 (I know its stupid but I only use my computer for games and I wouldn't be too bothered if they kick the bucket and they lose everything). My problem then becomes two-fold. I understand that my BIOS settings not being saved is a CMOS battery issue and needs to be replaced, however in this particular board, the battery is heat shrinked into a plastic cover, when I cut the cover off, the battery connectors have been like soldered onto them and I'm not sure how to replace the battery, therefore does anyone know how to replace the battery on this motherboard. I have attached photos of CMOS battery. I have submitted an RMA to see if they can change the battery. Then my booting issues, why do I have to press the reset button to get it to post, why do I boot cycle and it shuts itself off randomly after it has posted, and why is my computer just being dank really lol. Would love to hear any suggestions or if anyone has had these problems before. Thank you

I recently purchased an RTX 3070 that was mining for less than 3 months for 350€ (~370$). It was running just fine after my RX 5700xt and installing up to date drivers with DDU. I played for 4 hours after that without any issues and then my PC rebooted. At this point I could only be 1min max in the desktop before It'll turn off and on again. I reinstalled the same driver with DDU after reseating almost everything in my pc, thinking it was a faulty install. I could use the PC for 2 hours before encountering the same behavior plus now I have, some BOSD: video scheduler internal error. After the first crash the GPU was hot to the touch but nor burning. Tere is no funny odors or fumes or anything like that. my specs: ryzen 5 2600 (it'll be replaced with a Ryzen 7 5800x in a week) asus prime B450M-A 2 x 8Go hyperX fury 2666MHz cas 16 EVGA 750w alim what I tried so far: reseating GPU, cables and ram Reinstalling gpu driver with ddu disabling DOCP removing the side panel and putting a fan blowing air into the case I'm using an old 1660ti to avoid using ddu to reinstall my rx5700xt Is the gpu faulty or is it just the cpu / motherboard too old for supporting it correctly? Why could it run fine for 4h and then just crashing?

I've a system with the bellow mentioned components. CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 Mobo: Asrock B450M Pro4-F R2.0 RAM: PNY XLR8 8GBx2 HDD: WD blue 1TB SSD: Lexar 256 GB PSU: Corsair CV 450W OR Thermaltake Litepower 450W GPU: Amd Radeon RX 550 4GB OR Nvidia GTX 960 2GB I bought the system in February 2021 and it was working great w/o any issues. However, recently I started facing random pixelation, freezes, crashes, and rebooting in both windows 10 and linux ( archlabs linux). I was using an Amd Radeon RX 550 4 GB at that time. I thought it might be a GPU issue. I reinstalled my GPU driver using DDU w/o resolution of the issue. I switched to a Nvidia GTX 960 2GB but the problem persisted. I changed my PSU from the Corsair one to the Thermaltake one but the issue still persisted. I was booting from my HDD at that time. I installed a new SSD and installed windows 10, windows 11, and linux on it. The issue still persisted in any given hardware combo. Once I uninstalled all of my drivers using DDU in windows or in linux didn't install nvidia or amd grahics drivers, I didn't have any issue at all. I've been using my PC w/o installing any vendor graphics drivers since then w/o any issue but the downside is that I can't play any games at all. Can you guys/girls please help me to find out which of my component might be causing the issue. I'm guessing this might have something to do with the PCIE slot or something. I've warranty of all of my parts. So, if I cant find the issue, I can claim warranty. Thanks a lot in advance for your help.

Computer is a MSI GP62 6QF Laptop. When installing updates and then restarting, or whenever I restart it in general, it hangs on the MSI boot screen and will not continue reboot no matter how long I leave it. So now, I have updates pending and can't install them, as when I select shut down it tries a restart and gets hung up at the same point again...

So...I got in a hurry on a well priced board for my 9900k. In my blind excitement, I bought a z370 instead of the z390. After installing, I get stuck in boot loop with a few error codes. One is dram and the other is VGA. I reinstalled my poor z310 and have no issues. I can't get to bios to flash for 9th gen support without a post. Did I screw myself? Now I can't afford to buy a new board. Aorus z390 gaming 5 I9 9900kf 32 gb Corsair beast @ 2666 EVGA 2060 black oc edition

When i pull my gpu out of my pc it just enters this weird boot loop but when the gpu is in it works completley normally. (due to fan issues i tried to boot trough igpu to see if it would work) Sorry for the cable management it is only temporarily Specs: Cpu: intel core i7 12700k Gpu: zotac gtx 1060 6gb mini Ram: vengeance rgb rt 2*8gb 3600mhc cl16 MoBo: asus prime z690-p WIFI d4 Psu: Enermax modu 82+ 625W pc vid.mp4

I have been trying to reset my pc for 4 hours straight, if not longer. from all the error codes I've seen tonight I believe it was a stupid borked windows 11 update and some drivers got messed up. Every code that I searched mentioned drivers. Now after hours of trying to get it into the recovery environment for a windows reinstall, it just freezes as soon as it gets past the bios screen, meaning I cant get into the recovery screen to even try to reinstall. I am beyond frustrated cause to my knowledge there is almost nothing I can do. I would try to flash the newest bios to the MOBO but it doesnt seen to want to read it, and I wasnt sure if that might actually make it worse. My PC also keeps getting stuck in a boot loop and the only thing that gets it unstuck is a bios reset when powered down and then itll usually try to get into windows once, and then boot loop on the next power down my specs are as follows Gigabyte x299 designare ex i7 7740x corsair vengeance rgb le 32 gb 3200mhz samsung 970 evo 256gb m.2 ssd 2x team group ex 500gb ssd western digital 2tb hard drive msi rtx 270 duke there havent been any hardware changes recently, just the windows 11 update *Sort of update, I have attached a picture of how far it gets, and then freezes and won't let me do anything*

I have a Gigabyte AB350M HD3 and I haven't updated my bios in like four years because I didn't find any reason to but my CPU started underclocking out of nowhere (Ryzen 5 1600) so I thought maybe it's a system instability issue and I wanted to update then so I update to F20 from F10 and I couldn't start my PC for a long time so I removed the CMOS and replaced it with a new one it solved getting past the bios screen but then I couldn't get into windows so I wanted to install a fresh copy of windows out of a flash drive but the pc is stuck in some kind of a booting loop whenever the installation starts and the windows logo pops out, the pc restarts on its own and I don't know what's the problem if somebody can help me I would very grateful thank you.

Hey guys, I've been having an infinite boot loop issue for almost a week now with my laptop. Before the Boot Loop happened I was just updating some drivers for my laptop and it was running on Windows 10 version 21H1. Me and my brother, checked everything from the Windows Memory Diagnostic's Tests, to fresh installing Windows 10, and removing and reinstalling the batteries of the laptop. But I'm still stuck on the infinite boot loop. I asked a few people about this issue and they said there's either something wrong with the OS itself or the RAM or my Storage. As I mention before I did the WinMemDiag test and it showed that my RAM was working perfectly fine (since I was able to enter Safe Mode) and so is my storage which is a Toshiba 5400rpm 500gb HDD. So what I did was reinstall windows, but what I installed was the 20H2 version of windows instead of the 21H1 (since my laptop might've had compatibility issues with that version.) But unfortunately it still didn't work. I also did System Restore and it still didn't break free from the Boot Loop. I tried doing the multiple solutions found online and not even one of them worked. My laptop is a Lenovo IdeaPad 330-14AST. These are the following specs: - CPU: AMD A6-9225, 2 cores and 2 threads (2.6GHz~3.0GHz) - GPU 0: AMD R4 512mb - GPU 1: AMD Radeon 530 2GB - Storage: 500GB HDD I hope anyone can help me solve my problems because this laptop of mine just turned two years old. :<<

I finally managed to get a full midi tower, this was my first time building a pc. I made sure to make sure that all the parts were compatible and I followed manuals when I was assembling it. However when I turned it on it and chose the default bios settings it showed the MSI pro series logo and text along with "Preparing Automatic Repair", it then either boot loops showing the automatic repair thing or will stay on it. Also when it boot loops there are graphical artefacts (maybe) (grean/red dots along the entire screen/in lines). I've tried reseating the ram, checking all the power connections and removing the motherboard from the case to see if it was shorting. Does anyone know what could cause this? Here are my system specs: Ryzen 5 5600g MSI B550 a pro 2 x 8Gb Viper gaming Patriot ram @3200mhz 400 watt Cooler Master MWE v2 PSU 128Gb m.2 + 2TB HDD

I was trying to install windows 11 and I enabled secure boot after enabling tpm. It also asked me to enable a platform key so I set it to the default one. When I saved and exited it started boot looping. My mobo is a gigabyte b450 aorus m

Hey everyone! I posted this on Reddit, too, but I figured I'd share it here too to increase my chance of getting to the bottom of this problem! Sorry, but this is going to be a long post! My rig: - CPU: AMD Ryzen 3700x (stock cooler, Amazon warehouse) - MOBO: Asus B550 Tuf Gaming (now Asus X570-F Strix) - GPU: Gigabyte RTX 2080 windforce (used, 2 years old) - PSU: Corsair TX650M (Amazon warehouse) - RAM: Crucial Ballistix 2x16 GB 3600MHz RGB - SSD: NVMe M.2 Sabrent Rocket 500 GB (PCIe 3.0) - HDD: Maxtor 2 TB portable hard drive (opened and connected as internal) - CASE: Corsair 275R This was built on October last year, although I got the 2080 on January 2021, but it has been working fine ever since. Here's the issue: my PC randomly rebooted (as if I pressed the physical reboot button) but didn't POST, it got stuck with the DRAM LED on. This happened once already, all it took was turning off and on the PSU but this time it didn't work. Not only that, sometimes after rebooting the PC got stuck on either DRAM, CPU or VGA, although only rarely on CPU. So, I tried the usual troubleshooting with the old motherboard: - Resetting CMOS - Reseating CMOS battery - Flashing BIOS update through EzFlash Utility - Reseating CPU - Changing GPU (I had an old R7770 by XFX laying around) - Unplugging HDD - Reseating RAM On this matter, when I tried one stick on B2 slot (which should have priority among the four) the PC started boot looping, i.e. getting all the way to VGA LED and immediately going back to DRAM as if I pressed the physical reboot button, then repeating indefinitely. Any stick on B2 slot had this effect, while any stick on A2 (the other priority slot) just made the PC stuck on any POST step as described before. I thought that this could have been a motherboard tracing issue, so I bought a new board (X570-F Strix) and rebuilt my PC, only to encounter the same issue. The thing is, this time it's A2 that is causing the boot loop, and not only that, this time I tried a single stick of RAM in any slot and it looks like A1 is doing the same as A2 while B1 and B2 are "fine" (still no POST, but it's better than boot looping I guess). I can't figure out the schematics, but as far as I know RAM slots are connected 2 by 2 to the CPU, so could this mean that I have a faulty CPU? I just hope that whatever started the issue didn't propagate it to the other components, or this will be impossible to solve. I'll try a different stick of RAM that I'll be borrowing from a friend of mine just to make sure it's not that, I'll keep you posted. Thank you in advance!

Hello, first post there, i hope its the right place. Some data: Notebook HP Envy x360 13-ag0006nl with a ryzen 2500u I just left this laptop off for a bit and the battery was completely drained. When i powered it on i received a message regarding a bad cmos crc from the bios and default option will be loaded. Ok. I enter the bios and loaded default options, save and exit. Now Windows from the integrated nvme wont boot. I tried disabling the tpm, disabling secure boot, going into rescue with F11. Nothing. Then i tried to use a Windows usb installer (win10 21h1), same thing, starts loading and then is stuck on the animation and doesnt move. I tried a ubuntu mate 20.04 live usb and loads fine to the desktop. ???? I tried a WinPE rescue image, stuck on boot. At this point i was annoyed. I opened the laptop, got the nvme and plug it in a dell latitude, boom, works first time. more question marks ????? I even tried removing the UEFI entries with the ubuntu live but no results. I reflashed the bios to the latest version, nothing. Since i opened it already i tried to boot to the WinPE without the nvme installed. Stuck on boot again. I dont know what to do at this point Any suggestion?

So basically, when I boot my PC it stutters on startup (video attached). This stuttering vanishes after I run something like chrome, discord, or a game. I'm not sure what about these applications that cause the stuttering to go away - maybe it's the power draw or GPU acceleration. This stuttering does not come back until I reboot my PC. If I shut down or restart my PC while experiencing this stuttering behavior, it will try for 10-20 mins and result in a Driver Power State Failure BSoD. This has happened since I built my PC two years ago. The issue is that when windows updates, it will sometimes reboot as part of the process. This causes the stuttering behavior, BSoD, and failure to update. Right now my PC is stuck in a boot loop between reverting update changes and the BSoD. Unfortunately I cannot provide logs right now since my PC is stuck in a boot loop. Any help would be greatly appreciated! System Information: x64 Windows RYZEN 5 3600 Sapphire Pulse RX 5700 MSI B450 TOMAHAWK Corsair TXM Gold 550 W RAM: Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 16 GB DDR4-3000 (BLS2K8G4D30AESBK) SSD: Crucial P1 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME VID_20210811_095240(0).mp4

TL; DR: My HP-Compaq nx9110 (referred to as "The Laptop") will power on, but after the Compaq splash screen, it will flash to a black screen with only the top-left command-prompt-style underscore, then flash again and be back at the Compaq splash screen. This loops infinitely. I can access BIOS, but so far none of the basic methods of recovery have any effect. ------------------------------------------------------------- This Laptop's Specs: Model: HP-Compaq nx9110 (PC796AV) system board ID: 089C Processor: Intel Pentium 4 @3.00 Ghz System memory: 640 MB Graphics: ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 IGP original OS: Windows XP PhoenixBIOS setup utility Bios version: F.42 KBC version: 31.42 Serial #: 2UA443P3PM UUID #: F8DB125F186511D9 913E000FB00FBABE No bios passwords are set, both floppy and CD-ROM boot options are enabled. default boot order: 1) Floppy drive 2)ATAPI CD-ROM drive 3)Hard Drive --- Samsung HM160HC-(PM) 4) Network Adapter ------------------------------------------------------------- Long version: I recently began work on restoring an old HP-Compaq business laptop from 2002-03 (cleaning, re-applying thermal paste, checking components for damage, etc). The original 2.5" HDD (80gb, 4200rpm) that was in it would not show up in BIOS boot order, nor when I plugged it into my desktop via USB-to-IDE adapter. I chalked that up as it being dead and bought a new similar model (Samsung, 160gb 5400rpm). When I got the new HDD, I first plugged it into my desktop via the same usb-to-IDE connector, initialized the disk and formatted the whole disk to 1 volume, MBR boot sector. (NTSF as far as I know) Then, I tried plugging this initialized blank drive into the laptop along with a Windows 10 installation USB stick, to reload windows. (as far as I could tell from research, Win10 should work with this hardware) This resulted in a loop of: Compaq splash screen -> half a second of the Windows logo showing up -> black screen -> back to the Compaq splash screen. So I figured, "okay, this hardware is too old to recognize a bootable USB perhaps." I checked in the boot order screen, and the USB stick DOES show up as a valid boot option, but even disabling every other option didn't yield any different result. My next attempt was to install Win10 directly to the HDD using a tool called Win-To-Usb, which took the .iso created by the Windows Media Creation Tool and essentially installed it to the HDD as if it was connected to a new computer. I then put this drive back in the Laptop, powered it on, and this results in the startup loop I'm currently in. I haven't been able to find any info specifically related to this model and Windows 10 together, so my research is at a standstill. Any advice is welcome; my skill level is what I'd describe as intermediate. Ideas I still have: -try installing Win 7 or Win XP on the drive instead to see if it's just Win10 uncompatibility -create installation media on CD-ROM to see if that will work properly (I'll re-initialize the HDD first, of course) - chuck the damn thing out the window to see how durable it is, proceed to use it as a fancy doorstop. Boot Order: System info:

So recently, I got a nearly bricked HDD from my dad. I put it in, but alas, it was loud and slow. Eventually, it started slowing the whole machine down, however I didnt have 30 minutes to wait until my PC powers off, I remove it and then it powers on again. I have disconnected Hard Drives at runtime in the past, and had no bad experiences doing so, so I did exactly that. Unfortunately, this time I wasn't let off so easy. In moments, I got a KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR, followed by an infinite boot -> BSOD -> reboot loop. I have no idea what to do. Automatic repair failed, as per usual, and I've never really encountered this issue before. Reinstalling or formatting is not an option. Anyone know what to do now?

So i got a new PC: Ryzen 7 5800X - No OC + No integrated graphics RTX 3060 32GB RAM @ something over 3000Mhz 850 Watts PSU 1TB Crucial M.2 1TB Crucial SSD (Boot drive) My pc ran well until now, ive had it for 3 days. But now it is stuck in a boot loop when i start it. And no automatic repair is coming up. Im also not able to run Startup Repair. Its just black screen for 10 seconds, then a quick screen from win10 saying Restarting... That all started after it tried to install a windows update on boot btw. I did all the basic troubleshooting steps like re-seating the RAM and checking all the connections, both from the PSU and on the IO. I dont know what to do now, and sending it back would take ages and would be really hard for me right now, so i would try anything before that. Also sorry for my bad english, in german.

Hello. So I was using my pc normally for about 10 minutes and then pc froze and nothing was responding, no keyboard mouse response. I reset the pc and it was boot looping ( starts and stops and starts and so on). So i removed the cmos battery and then pc is working normally again. My question is what could be the issue? I'm guessing it could be xmp issue. Some settings i was using before in bios: Intel speedstep, Eist, voltage optimzation, rth = enabled xmp 2400mhz = enabled memory fast boot = enabled fast boot = enabled After resetting the bios, i've disabled all the settings that i've mentioned and currently running the sticks at 2133mhz. Can someone give me any information on what could be the issue, thanks. My specs: Intel i5 10400f Gigabyte b460m d2v (edit from 360*) 16gb corsair vengeance 2400mhz

I had a random hard reset happening the last couple of weeks. I tried to monitor both power and heat and couldn't see any issues with either before it would suddenly do a hard reset. Sometimes it would reset almost immediately after booting again and other times it would work without issues for days. Some times I was gaming, other times I was just watching youtube or surfing the net. Yesterday I exchanged the PSU with a new (same as old) and removed a power strip I thought might have had some issues and it worked flawlessly until this morning and now it won't boot at all. I sometimes get the "Automatic Windows Repair" text but after a few seconds it resets again. I've tried booting from USB, both windows 10 and Ubuntu, but after hitting "Boot from live usb" it just resets again. So it seems the bootloader runs, but it's having trouble handling over to OS startup of some kind. Have tried resetting CMOS and updating to latest BIOS. I have recently installed a new nvme M.2 unit and the issues started after (not immediately right after), but the monitoring software for the device reported no errors as far as I can tell. Windows 10 64 bit Asus ROG stric x570-f with latest BIOS AMD 3700X 4x8GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB 3200MHz DDR4 SDRAM DIMM 288-pin Gainward GeForce RTX 3070 Phoenix GS Samsung 960 EVO 250GB M.2 PCIe SSD (BOOT device) WD Black SN850 NVMe SSD (new storage drive) 2 x Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250GB BK OEM (Storage) Corsair RMX750 (750W 80+ gold)