Can't boot into windows more than once?

[XTankSlayerX]

Hey guys 

 

 

Specs:

Some Asrock board (will get model tomorrow) 

3770k

R9 380

Corsair Vengeance 2x4gb

TX750w psu

X2 ssds X3 HDDS (irrelevant) 

 

What's happening is:

Earlier my friend restarted their computer, only to have it freeze on the windows boot logo with the spinning circles, then it the computer turns off. 

 

Windows boots in safe mode, but not normally. 

 

We tried a bunch of various edits and repairs with cmd, but nothing works. We even tried installing windows on a new never used hard drive and the same thing happens. 

 

We tried leaving out one of the sticks of ram, same thing. 

 

I'm thinking this could be a motherboard issue? 

 

Dunno what i missed... Will update when I wake up...

 

Thanks

[Thomas_nerd]

what you could do is try the boot drive on a different machine and see if it can boot of it.

[Master Disaster]

If it boots in safe mode then I'd suggest you pull all non essential hardware and start testing everything one at a time because it's something that requires a driver that's causing the issue.

 

My guess would be more than likely the GPU.

[Stefan Payne]

1 hour ago, XTankSlayerX said:

I'm thinking this could be a motherboard issue? 

Could be everything...

Even PSU is possible as you have possibly a 12 Year or so old PSU. When the caps are done, freezing might happen.

 

What equipment do you have to test the System?
Only the parts listed or do you have known good parts from another system?

[vaiwalker]

if it boots into safe mode, doubt its a hardware issue. sounds more like corrupted windows. this solution has worked a few times for me, try disconnecting the windows hdd and connecting it to another system and do a chkdsk to scan and fix for errors. worked for me like 40% of the time

[Master Disaster]

8 hours ago, vaiwalker said:

if it boots into safe mode, doubt its a hardware issue. sounds more like corrupted windows. this solution has worked a few times for me, try disconnecting the windows hdd and connecting it to another system and do a chkdsk to scan and fix for errors. worked for me like 40% of the time

Booting in safe mode but not in normal mode actually indicates a hardware issue. Safe mode doesn't load drivers so any faulty hardware won't be initialised.