Windows doesn't want to boot up

Skull_Zockt · September 19, 2021

Hey guys,

for some time now I've been having the problem that my pc did not want to boot up properly after i turned it on. It often got stuck and freezed on the attached screen.

But after powering it down and up again for like 3-4 times it decided to start up properly. This problem existed for a few weeks now.

After trying to remove various USB devices and also monitors, which did not lead to any success I opted to reinstall windows 10.

And well, that didn't do much either. So another week passed and today it of course it had the same problems starting up, but it is as it is. But everytime I left the computer to do something else. Everytime I came back it got stuck on that exact same screen. I don't know, maybe windows did updates and restarted? I don't know. But this happened everytime I went away for longer than 20 minutes or so. And right now I got stuck on another screen. You can see the startup process on the following video (

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Could it be that eitehr the PSU or the mainboard are damaged?

I have the PC itself always connected to the power outlet. Although everything else is connected to an outlet which I can turn on and off (e.g. 3 Monitors, Microphone Amp, Audio Receiver, ...) Basically everythig else. And I noticed before when I turned on the PC and at the same time turned on the outlet for everything else it failed booting (most likely due to everything else draining a lot of power for a second). Could this maybe over time have damaged something?

Or do you maybe have another idea on what the problem could be?

PC got built @ about the end of 2013 and GPU, SSDs got upgraded over time.

My specs:

Mainboard: MSI Z97-Gaming 5

CPU: Intel Core i7 4790k 4x4Ghz

GPU: MSI GTX 1070

RAM: 16GB DDR3

SSD: 2x 512GB Samsung 85, EVO 1x 1TB Samsung 860 EVO

PSU: EVGA 750 G2 Gold

Thank you very much in advance,

Skull