Strange and random boot issues

[Stavian]

Hello everyone, I'm sorry about not being too descriptive in the title, but as long as I had contact with computers, I had not had experience with anything resembling this, and I'm at loss as far as words go, plus, I'm really terrified of my PC state, as I *really* need it to more or less survive, now. So, without much more.

 

Specs: Windows 10 Pro. 64 bits. Version 1909. OS Build 18363.535 (I use OOSU to more or less dewindows 10 win 10, that includes shutting automatic updates off.)

      ASUS PRIME B350M-K (CPU-Z says it's version 5222, so newest one available.)

AMD Ryzen 3 2200G (stock)

Patriot Viper DDR4 2133 CL15 (stock)

ASRock Phantom Gaming Radeon RX560 (stock)

Silicon Power SSD Ace A55 

Old somewhat damaged WD BLUE 1TB (currently unplugged from SATA and power) 

PSU - SilentiumPC VERO L2 Bronze 500 watts, 115 volts

 

So, I'll now describe what has occurred. I was playing a game whist having my browser open in background, my PC then got a terrible freeze, and after waiting for 3-4 minutes had not helped, I restated it and went away, when I got back, I noticed it had a black screen instead of anything else, so I restarted it again, thinking it had to get some error or such. No help, even if this time I managed to get into windows logo screen with loading. But that was taking forever. I tried many things, I re-plugged my SSD to a different SATA/power cable, I plugged out my old somewhat damaged WD BLUE, thinking that maybe it's time finally come after managing to survive a fall from 1st floor. No help either. I was either getting black screen, eternal loading, or just outright blue-screen with 0xc00000e error. I then scoured the web searching for answer, and I decided to turn fast boot off in BIOS. I then had left my PC on whist going to bed, after trying to run it in safe mode with command line on. I was lying in bed, with my PC and screen on, in different part of the room. (I do that because having my PC on has a calming feeling on me, fans serve as a white noise, it's pleasant.) And then, after I lied in bed for like 10-30 minutes, lo and behold... it loaded onto login screen, mind, I was not able to use keyboard and only mouse was working, but, after another reset, and another lengthy; but I think shorter, or maybe that was placebo loading time. It worked, I managed to login onto my PC, and I'm using it ever since, I had one more freeze whist scanning with malwarebytes anti malware, but maybe that just been because of the scan. I had checked my SSD with few programs, such as CrystalDyskinfo, or SP Toolbox (even if second is refusing to scan it, saying that 'No partition existed') and both are saying it's fine

I'm afraid to do anything on my PC currently, in fear of the freeze, and I'm not sure if I should be buying new SSD or what. Does anyone has any advice? Should I kill a goat and dedicate it's innards to Omnissiah? Should I just never turn my PC off, and if I have to, pray to machine spirit every time I turn it off and on again? 

I know I probably should turn my PC off and try to turn it on again to see what happens, with scientific method and such, but I'm just too afraid of it not getting up again, and if that happens, my livelihood is in a bit of a pickle, hence the fear, I would really like if someone here has any advice or experience with issues like that they can share, before I even attempt that. 

Thank you all very much for reading my rant. 

Edited July 2, 2020 by Stavian
Forgot to add that programs that I checked my disk with were fine. Also, bad volt number.

[Bombastinator]

Only thing that seems odd is I haven’t seen a 230w PSU in 15 years.  Power bricks yes. PSU, no

[Stavian]

I double checked on manufacturer website, and you are right, it was not 230, but 115 volts. But. It appears that the shop I got it from got things wrong, or I misread them.

[Bombastinator]

1 minute ago, Stavian said:

I double checked on manufacturer website, and you are right, it was not 230, but 115 volts. But. It appears that the shop I got it from got things wrong, or I misread them.

Watts and volts are different things.  So far as I can tell that ad doesn’t say what the wattage is.  I’m not even sure of the language though.  It claims to have 2 pcie power cables so it should be at least 450w but I don’t know.

[Stavian]

It is in polish, and PSU has 500 watts, just 115 volts though, instead of 230 volts, But yes, I assume this PSU would not be causing these issues regardless? 

[Bombastinator]

Just now, Stavian said:

It is in polish, and PSU has 500 watts, just 115 volts though, instead of 230 volts, But yes, I assume this PSU would not be causing these issues regardless? 

It’s enough power.  If it’s working correctly.  I was halfway guessing polish from all the special characters but I heard polish was seriously short on vowels and I was seeing plenty of em. One more stereotype down the drain. Extra points for using whilst correctly.  Many Americans can’t do that.

 

sounds like it posts, goes into windows, and has problems.
if you spam the correct key (it varies by motherboard) it will go into bios instead.  Solutions might be found there.  If THAT doesn’t work there are other possible problems. 

If it does it’s Not impossible windows got screwed up somehow. 

[Stavian]

We are somewhere in mid tier of vowels usage, I think, honestly, not that different from English, i'd say.

Main issue that I was having is that it posts always, then sometimes it just then goes black, and that's it, you have to reset.

Some other times it goes onto windows 10 loading screen (you know, with windows logo and loading circle symbol) and it... stays there, for like 10-20-ish minutes, on a 1TB SSD, that seems to be fine. And then it is all okay, like nothing bad ever occurred, unless you get a bluescreen with 0xc00000e  error. and if you do, you just have to wait and try again. Then it boots into Windows 10 and all seems to be working.

As far as what I've seen in BIOS, stuff there seems to be just okay, I turned fast boot off, and that maybe helped, but rest of stuff in it seems to be fine. As far as windows being screwed up though, would plopping down windows install USB/Disc and using repair help with that, or am I looking at installing windows from grounds up?

[Bombastinator]

My guess is the storage is messed up somehow.  The long boot time is windows trying to figure out what the heck is wrong and trying to fix it.  My personal move would be a ground up windows reinstall but I’m not well educated as to how windows works these days.  There are probably better answers.  There’s a “refresh” for example that might do it.  I’m not totally sure what “refresh” even does though.  Like I said there are people here who know more than me.   It could actually be a hard drive problem though in which case messing with windows won’t help.