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Hi there,I had some problems with software on my pc. I was going to uninstall it and re install it. My pc froze whilst it was uninstalling. I then force restarted my pc thinking that the worse that can happen is the program I was uninstalling could get could get corrupt, I was wrong. When my PC restarted it took a while and brought up a disk check screen, I skipped it thinking that it came up because I force restarted my PC. It then froze and I so I force restarted it. I then turned on my PC again and it brought up a automatic repair screen. Then it went blank. It will not boot into the automatic repair screen. i restarted my pc and the same thing happened. I then created a bootable USB stick with windows 10 on it so I can do a system restore point to see if that will help. So I plugged it in and booted into it. The windows logo flashed up and after 15 seconds it went blank. I then unplugged my SSD with windows installed onto it. I booted into the USB drive and it booted. I could install Windows, but that's not what I created it for and the drive that needs repairing was not plugged in. I then plugged my SSD back in and tried to boot the USB. The windows logo flashed up again for 15 seconds and then went blank again. I think my SSD is corrupted but I only got it 4 mouths ago and I don't see how that will top me booting into Windows on my USB Stick. At the moment I'm backing up my usb 3.0 drive and I'm going to make that a bootable USB with Windows 10 on it. Failing that I have no other way of fixing this. I tried my USB 3.0 drive and it did the something as with my other bootable USB driveAny help is appreciated Thanks -Archie P.S Here is my SSD -
I have newly made a custom PC that is having some problems booting. Every time I turn it on is come up with the American Megatrends screen and them once I press F1 it moves on to the BIOS and I have to manually select which device I want the PC to boot from even though I have my SSD boot drive at the highest boot priority in the BIOS. If anyone could help me I would greatly appreciate it. Here are my specs i7 6700k, Asus Z170 Deluxe motherboard, 16gb ddr4 ram, WD 2tb HDD, 250gb Samsung SSD, 750 Watt Corsair power supply, ROG GTX 1080, Corsair H100i
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Hey, so whenever I try to open my computer it boots up for about a second or whatever then immediately shuts off a second later. After being shut off, it automatically tries to boot again only to face the same problem. Eventually, it actually does boot. Only to randomly forcefully turn off 5 minutes later (which is actually how the problem first started - I was chatting to people and then my computer randomly shut off. CPU: Intel Core i7-6850K GPU: MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Memory: DDR4-3466 (running at 2133MHz, 4 sticks of 8 GB each) OS: Windows 10 Pro SSD (boot drive): Samsung 960 Pro (512GB) PSU: Corsair AX860i IMG_0303.MOV
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First of all, my hardware that is or could be related to the issue: Primary monitor is a 2560x1440p monitor connected to my pc with a DP cable, secondary monitor is a 1920x1080 monitor connected with DVI-D (dual link) cable and my 3rd monitor is 1600x900 connected with VGA. My GPU is a GTX 960 (latest drivers, I checked) with 4GB of Vram. I'm running Windows 10 (updated from 8.1) Now to the issue itself: I recently went to a LAN party and only brought my primary monitor. The LAN lasted for 4 days and then I returned to my own desk with the 2 other monitors. I boot up the PC and at first it only shows the picture in my 3rd monitor, not even detecting the other monitors. I reboot the PC, same issue. I reboot the PC with the 3rd monitor disconnected, it shows the picture only in my main monitor, not in the secondary one I also had plugged in. I connect all the monitors, restart the PC, and this is where the real issue begins: The PC shows the motherboard splash art, and after that, boots into a black screen with the cursor showing and the Windows 10 loading icon spinning on my secondary monitor. I reboot the PC, same issue. The thing is, I can still operate my PC while it's in this mode. I could (basically blindfolded) type in my password and (still blind) shut down or restart the PC from the desktop. I tried disconnecting my secondary monitor, only leaving the primary one and the 3rd one plugged in, and the problem is gone. I can operate my PC normally. Then I tried plugging the secondary in again, and the issue occurs again. Please, dear LTT community, help me.
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Recently bought a Noctua NHL9i, admittedly I did not do the appropriate research ahead of time before buying the fan, and turned out the cpu cooler didn't fit on my cpu, it being a AMD FX 8300. So, at that point i wanted to get some usage out of the fan for the time being, and noticed it was the same size as the case fan that came with the system. So, i took out the stock fan and put in the Noctua. When i was behind the tower while it was running the other day, i noticed the Noctua wasn't running, so i opened it and took a look at it. Turns out the Noctua only spins while the system is booting, and then it refuses to spin. The stock fan requires 1.6 watts on a 3 pin psu to run and the Noctua needs 2.52 on a 4 pin. Any suggestions on what to do to either fix the Noctua for use as a case fan, or anything else? -
I have a weird problem if it can called a problem, however after a year of use it´s starting to annoy me, so I guess maybe I am just looking for answers. I have a watercooled 6700k in a Asus 170 pro gaming motherboard, a GTX 1080 and 16 gb of ram. CPU has been overclocked at 4,8 ghz for over a year. Power supply is an EVGA modular 750W. Sometimes Win 10 needs to reboot to install updates, on every first attempt it always fails the reboot and a screen comes up telling me that the overclocking has failed. I unplug the power cord and on every second reboot it works just fine. Furthermore I have been rather lucky with my system, it has never failed while running ... so, it´s only the weird "first boot" issue. Running various extensive stress tests also don´t bring the PC down, temperatures are usually great as well. It does not fail on boot if the system is not overclocked, other minor overclocks like 4,3 or 4,5 makes the PC halt of first boot attempt again. I have also tried various overclocking methods from both experience and youtube. It has always been like that. -
I was playing Titanfall 2 last night and I pulled my Xbox 360 controller out and my PC shut down. No warning or error messages. Then when I tried to turn it back on it wouldn't boot up properly. Nothing would output to my monitor. I had to turn it off again by holding down the power button. Repeated 3 times then went to bed. Worked fine when I got home from work this afternoon. I've had this issue with booting periodically since I've had this PC. Sometimes it just wont output anything to the monitor. If I keep trying eventually it works. Restarting it often causes this problem. To the point where I won't restart my PC. I turn it off by using shut down. Then hit the button to turn it back on. Any thoughts on how I could make my PC more reliable? Thanks Windows 10 64-bit i5-6500 MSI - H170 Gaming M3 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard Kingston - HyperX Fury Black 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory Crucial - BX200 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 660 2GB Video Card (second hand and is a bit noisy) Corsair - Builder 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply
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MISTAKE MADE IN THE MOBO BIOS CAN'T MAKE THE PC TO BOOT NO MORE NOTHING BOOTS AT ALL TRYED TO JUMP START IT WITH NO SUCCESS mobo: MSI B250I GAMING PRO AC I should change my username to very dumb rookie builder.. A few days ago i built my 2nd gaming pc. Everything went well, booted perfectly, everything installed correctly. I have been gaming hard on it ever since. I have been experiencing something i didn't with my first pc. Every time i boot the system i go straight to bios. I know there is a way to change this on the mobo bios but since i didn't figure it out right away the first time, i decided to figure it out later since i was too exited to game on it. Today i decided to figure it out again. And i actually did but decided to keep exploring my mobo bios to know more about it. This is when i commited my dumb mistake. I DON'T KNOW WHERE IN THE BIOS I ENDED UP BUT I GOT INTO A CODING SECTION. I TRIED TO GO BACK BUT IT WAS TOO LATE. THE 3 SECONDS I WAS ALOUD TO PRESS "ESC" HAD PASSED AND I WAS STUCK IN THERE. I DID NOT UNDERSTOOD HOW TO GET OUT OF IT. TRIED EVERY KEY ON THE KEYBOARD. NOTHING WORKED SO I FORCED POWERED IT DOWN. I then pressed the power button and it wouldn't boot anymore. Try every little hit i knew. Tried to jump start it with a screwdriver too on what i hope to be the right pins in the right circumpstances and nothing happened. Tried clearing the cmos too and nothing. Help idk what to do anymore. Everything was going fine for the bit i had it which is less than a week. As you may understand now my knowledge of computers is still limited. Got into it about 3 years ago. Focused on the gaming. Not on usefull stuff ...
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Hi there. Some days ago I decided to upgrade my system. I bought everything new, except for the GPU. The new parts arrived quickly, I managed to put everything together and put my old GPU (HD 6770) in until the new one would arrive. It all worked. Then my GPU arrived (AMD RX 480 4G, sapphire). I put it in - everything was fine. I installed the drivers from the AMD Website and did a restart when the installation process was finished. But that didn't work out so well. I got a black screen with a little white bar randomly placed somewhere in the upper left of the screen. I can't even go into the BIOS because the black screen happens to appear just instantly after starting the PC. After 10-20 minutes windows boots up and everything works perfectly fine, windows detects the GPU, it all works. -- Here a few sidenotes -- If I press *Del* a few times after starting I can get into the BIOS, but only after 10-20 minutes starring at that black screen. I did update the BIOS to the newest version. While the PC is having that black screen the EZ DEBUG LED at my mainboard lights up in the VGA spot. When I'm in Windows that light disappears... My current system is: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 2x8GB DDR4 G.Skill Aegis F4-3000 Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 480 4GB DDR5 Xilence 430W 80 plus bronce Crucial 240GB SSD Any help would be appreciated! Thanks, Simon
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I have the new Razer Blade from late 2017 since it came out. It's been a blast ever since however, I've encountered a massive problem that has recently appeared out of nowhere. Ever so often I get a BSOD with the errors: CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED (Happens often right after a cold boot when I sign in) UNEXPECTED_STORE_EXCEPTION (Happens randomly when using the PC for a while or coming back after putting it to sleep) They happen interchangeably and I haven't found any patterns for either of them. The real problem comes when it boots back up. The laptop boots into BIOS instantly and it doesn't even show that the SSD is even plugged in. I can't even choose it from boot options because it appears as if it wasn't there. It's pretty odd since after a few restarts (ranging from 2 to ~15) Windows comes back up and boots normally and the cycle repeats itself. I've tried the following options: running sfc /scannow (both in normal and Safe mode) running every option in DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image [/CheckHealth, /ScanHealth, /RestoreHealth] (both in normal and Safe mode) From the advanced Windows options: I run Startup Repair and it always comes up that Windows could not fix the problem. I even reset Windows yesterday wiping out the entire SSD and installing Windows from 0. After a couple of hours when reinstalling everything it happened again. I honestly don't know how to proceed and I'm desperate since I need to present my graduate thesis this month and it hinders my work by a lot. Please, someone, help me. I will include my Windows system event log int this post. systemLog.evtx -
A family member has moved away and has left his pc with us, he said the pc only turns on sometimes... which is weird. We have started testing things to find the problem. Specs are: Cpu- amd ryzen 5 3600 Mobo - Asus Prime A320M-A Gpu - gigabyte 1060 3gb Psu - some corsair 650w Mem - hyperx 1x16gb First thing we have tried is swapping the case as maybe the case hardware was faulty and also we wanted to swap the case as his one was super bulky and we wanted the pc to be in something lighter and smaller. No change We had a spare am4 mobo sitting around and tried putting that in the pc with the cpu, memory, cooler etc. No change We tried testing the psu by putting my working psu into the system. Note that even though the pc wont start, with both psu the mobo leds light up but you cannot power the fans or any post. We also have tested memory by putting my ddr4 memory in. No change We are also using a brand new ssd in the pc My partner randomly swapped some power cables around and the pc managed to turn on.. out of nowhere, and it had worked turning it off and on for 3 days. Now out of nowhere we woke up this morning and its not working again. We haddnt moved any of the parts or anything I suspect maybe its the Cpu but i havent heard of a fried cpu behaving like this before, we only have intel cpus with us so we cant test the cpu. We just want to get some opinions and other peoples experiences with a similar situation before we spend the money on a new cpu, would hate to waste the money if its not the problem. Thanks! -
Hi I'm doing a small budget build with a xeon x5650 6core and a super micro dual socket mother board I'm trying to boot to Windows but it stops at a blinking cursor I know it's probs a stupid mistake I did but its bothering haha pls help.
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I just changed my motherboard from a Gigabyte AB350m-Gaming 3 to a B450 Aorus M. I have a 500GB NVMe ssd, a 2TB SATA SSD and a 1TB HDD. Windows is on the 500GB NVMe ssd, games on the 2TB and misc. storage on the 1TB. When I replaced the motherboard I only had the NVMe ssd connected and the other drives disconnected and I was able to boot into windows perfectly, so I then shut down and turned he PSU off to plug in the other drives but this caused Windows to not be recognised and is asking me to restart with a boot media. I turned the PC off, unplugged the other drives and turned it back on and it still comes up with the same message. I then updated the BIOS to F32 with just the OS drive (NVMe) and I was able to boot into Windows, so I tried plugging the other drives in and now I am back in the same "Please insert boot media" message. I have made sure the boot order only has the OS drive when all 3 drives are connected. I have tried to boot override the OS drive but this did not work either. I am really hoping that I don't have to reinstall Windows. SPECS: R7 2700x Corsair LPX 2x8GB 3000MHz AB350M-Gaming3 -> B450 Aorus M RX580 Coolermaster masterwatt 650 Crucuial P1 500GB Crucial MX500 2TB Seagate Barracuda 1TB
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Hey LTT Forum! I had an old HDD laptop hard drive as storage space in my PC. I recently got a new laptop and wanted to put that laptop HDD in my new laptop for more room. That HDD had Ubuntu on it and I wiped the drive. I now cannot start of my PC it enters grub repair. I have no idea what to do right now. Can anyone offer assistance? -
Well this is inconvenient. My X99 system decided not to boot this afternoon. System has been running problem-free for ~2 years...until today. When I flick on the power switch, the system is getting power ... on-board power + reset button's LEDs are on, the two PCI-E connector LEDs on my ASUS ROG R9-280X Platinum lights up. I click the power button, and all fans spin up, Q-code output starts flashing through codes, make it to '25', and the system powers off. Powers off like someone pulled the plug. The system was last known to be working about ~2 days ago. It woke up from sleep / hibernate mode (someone hit the keyboard), and everything was working -- RGB LEDs, all fans were going, etc. When I checked back the next day, the system was off...just didn't alert me. My brother could've shut the system down. Anyways, I'm still troubleshooting the system, and I've done the following so far: Replace the PSU (EVGA P2 850W) with another PSU that I have on-hand (Corsair TX850) -- I first thought the PSU might be faulty. Swapped around DRAM slots, and tried a single stick of RAM in different slots -- thought maybe one or more of my 4 RAM sticks were faulty Swapped video card with an R9-Fury -- maybe the second-hand 280X is faulty Tried a different PCI-E X16 slot -- thought maybe PCI-E slot is dead I am thinking something might be shorting, or the motherboard / CPU kicked the bucket...in the progress of pulling the motherboard, and doing the ol' motherboard-on-top-of-cardboard-box troubleshooting. System configuration is in my signature but.... i7-6800K @ 4.0 GHz 32 GB (4 X 8 GB) DDR4-3000 TridentZ ASUS R9-280X / 2x Sapphire NITRO R9-Fury EVGA P2 850W PSU SanDisk 480 SATA III SSD Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO (CPU cooler I bought to initially test the system out...haven't had the time to put together my custom loop yet) Phanteks Enthoo Luxe Tempered Glass Edition case 2x RGB stripes daisy-chained together Any ideas or suggestions? Thanks! Update: No immediate signs of damage on the back of the motherboard. I do see...what seems like soldering flux residue on some of the pins on the back of one DIMM slot...but that slot is unused.
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I've had my PC for a about 4 years with Windows 7 running off a 120GB Corsair LS SSD. For quite a while now, 7/10 times my PC will fail to fully boot first time prompting me to launch start up repair... which does nothing to help. The system usually crashes either in the pre-windows environment or as the screen to log onto a user account appears. I've done some digging on-line and found that some users are suggesting either malware that is affecting the pre-windows environment, too many applications launching at start up (I don't get why that would cause my system to crash even before logging in) or my SSD is nearing the end of its life (I don't get any crashes when my system has managed to fully boot unless it's a DX11 error which is still rare for me)...and 40GB are still free on the drive. Could someone help narrow this down to the most likely cause and possibly suggest a fix? It's bugging the hell out of me. I'm happy to give more info if needed.
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Hi i recently build a brand new computer and i have met one problem. the problem is when im turning my pc on it boots up then turns off and after that it boots back up normally. when its turned on there isnt any other problems with the build. i have installed windows 10 and a few games on it and its been appearing since the start. The build contains following: Asus TUF z390m Motherboard Intel I5 9600k 32GB Corsair Dominator 3200 mhz DDR4 MSI RTX 2070 Armor 8 gb WD BLACK 500 gb nvme m.2 ssd AX 860i PSU And a Kraken x62 cpu cooler when im looking at the load of the machine or anything there isnt any signs of problems there isnt a heavy load on either the ssd or ram i hope there is someone who knows any fixes to this problem
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Hey guys, yesterday when I tried to turn on my pc, it crashed into the automatic repair. None of the fixing and repairing options worked. And when I tried startup repair, it didn’t work either and showed the error you see in the picture. But today the strange thing happened, while I was trying to boot up, that orange page came up and after some seconds the whole pc turned off! I had windows 10 pro with newest update and the last time it updated was at least 3 days ago. 6FA4DD30-ACAB-4526-A986-258A8CA1077B.mov
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My laptop is an Asus R558uf. Recently i bought an SSD and replaced my HDD (i myself didn't do it, the service person did). For the past few days i am having this problem. My lap won't boot. It don't even boot up to BIOS. It kinda stops booting even before that. Check the image. It stays like that for hours. Until i decided to open up my lap, and popped out my battery and re-inserted it. Then it worked good as new.....until i shutdown again. After which i again have to pop out and reinsert battery again. So, anyone have any ideas???
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Yesterday I had completely unplugged my pc for a basic cleaning, I plugged it back in and it hasn't been booting ever since. I've tried re connecting the CMOS battery, didn't work either. Also for about a month i had been facing an issue that when I'd press the start button it won't boot to bios but then I'd press the reset button and it'd boot, i suppose this got aggravated into the pc not booting at all.
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Do preface this, I have a drive that has Zorin OS (ubuntu derivative) and another drive that has windows. The Zorin OS one is my main drive. I tried booting from the windows drive today and I get this error: "grub unknown filesystem" and it just gives me a command prompt. I checked and all my files are still technically on the drive but the bootloader seems to be broken somehow. If you can help me find a solution I will be more than grateful.
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So I brought a m.2 pcie sad for my Acer nitro 5 spin I plugged in the ssd allocated it then used acronis true image from crucial and did a manual clone excluded some files . It restarted and went on some kind of screen and stated copying the partition it was taking too long so I left it for 2 hrs after I came back it says can't boot device if I try to boot again it shows somethin like this (I will add the pic) it also says insert something bootable My laptop Model : Acer nitro 5 spin Os : windows 10 CPU : i5-8250u GPU : gtx 1060 Ram : 8gb soldered Storage : 1tb hard disk New m.2 nvme ssd iam trying : crucial p1 500gb
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I made a new pc (my first one) and it won’t post. I’ve tried everything, changing the ram, storage, even psu but nothing worked... im starting to lose hope... any suggestions?
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Hello everyone, My friend is building is first gaming PC right now, and he told me that the PC isn't booting. I told him to check the front panel connectors and change the slot of his RAM (idk if that even would fix anything), but still no luck. Any ideas? Specs: Ryzen 7 1700x Asrock B350 Pro4 8 gb RAM (1x8) Corsair CX550M MSI GTX 970 and a molex RGB LED strip Thank you. EDIT: Well this turned out well... Apparently he just put all the front panel connectors to the wrong connectors
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I was playing fallout 4 VR on my MSI laptop and it got slightly laggy so I decided to save. As I was trying to do this, steam vr froze and was accompanied by a buzzing of the current sounds repeating rapidly. I took off my headset and to my dismay, the ' sorry your computer has encountered a problem' screen. It loaded and shut down. Now it will not boot to my welcome screen, and after the MSI splash screen, it displays the attached images (all of which are frozen images that flash for a second). Sometimes it looks different, sometimes the cursor and time pop up, and sometimes the pixels turn different colors. All of the time though, it displays a random amount of pixels, and this only lasts for a second or two then it goes black. I will say, the BIOS boots fine, and displays all my drives like it normally does. I can also boot into Macrium Recovery using my thumb drive I prepared two days ago to upgrade my drive to the 970 evo. No problems there at all. That being said, I did indeed clone my C drive, and it seemed to work fine. I also upgraded to Thermal Grizzlys Cunductonaut liquid metal. I insulated any of the exposed contacts and resistors with a small amount of silicone rtv. I did both my CPU and the GPU. I noticed massive improvements in temps, and it was about 15 degrees cooler than usual at the time of the crash. Just in case, I opened it up and checked for leakage, but there wasn't any at all. Everything looked the same as when I put it together earlier. I've even re cloned the old drive and swapped it back (same initial image BEFORE the drive upgrade) nothing... Resetting the pc and wiping the data with the troubleshooting process pre-boot seems to work well until it tries to restart and then I get the same crash screen. I'd much appreciate any help anyone has to offer. I really don't want to lose any data, but it would be better than losing the computer. Thanks! Caleb Update: the cursor popped up and I could move it around. Still not working right.
