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Try getting further with the SSD removed.

After that, try getting further with - if you have two sticks of RAM - one removed, test both.

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System is windows 10 and I've been running the PC for a few years now. I have changed no hardware recently and I haven't installed anything new in a while. I have a weekly avg scan that was running an hour or so before the issues and it didn't notify me of any issues.

 

I was watching a movie that started buffering, so I tried to play a game and was getting double controller inputs, so I tried to restart. It sat on the restarting screen for a good 15-20 minutes. I tried a quick power button press and nothing. A few minutes later I got a blue screen with "invalid io boost state" and then the system rebooted, but then it was stuck at the bios screen with the spinning dots. I left it for 10 minutes, no change, so I quick pressed power and it turned off. Now all I get is the bios flash screen and "press del or f2 to enter UEFI bios setting". However, I cannot get into the bios by pressing either key. I can't get past this screen. No windows, no bios, nothing.

 

I'm stuck at this point and I need some advice. These are the things I've tried so far.

 

I unplugged the system for 5-10 minutes.

I removed all cables except monitor and power and tried to boot.

Tried to clear CMOS.

Replaces CMOS battery and cleared again.

Tried booting with Windows installer flash drive inserted.

 

 

System is as follows:

Windows 10 64-bit

CPU: AMD 5950X

RAM: 32 GB GSKILL @ 3600Mhz

Graphics Card: GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3080 MASTER 10G

Motherboard: ASUS TUF Gaming X570-Pro (wi-fi)

Noctua NH-D15

Boot Drive: SAMSUNG 970 EVO PLUS M.2 2TB

WD Blue 4 TB SATA SSD

Seasonic FOCUS PX-850

 

 

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enter windows, settings > in the search bar type "bios" it will take you to system > recovery, then press "restart now" on the "advanced startup" tab and you will be able to enter bios from there

 

does your keyboard block num lit up if you toggle it on/off while the PC get to the "press f2 to enter setup" screen? 

also did you try to unplug your SSD as @whispous suggested? the "io" suggests an issue with the boot disk, do you perhaps have a spare HDD even a slow old one or an SSD where you can try to install a fresh windows in it? it would help to understand if it's an SSD issue or something else

 

just for the sake of possibility (really unlikely though) on reddit someone suggests that could be a malware problem but i'm pretty sure it's not, did you install quaked stuff recently? 

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3 hours ago, Evil_Cronos said:

System is windows 10 and I've been running the PC for a few years now. I have changed no hardware recently and I haven't installed anything new in a while. I have a weekly avg scan that was running an hour or so before the issues and it didn't notify me of any issues.

 

I was watching a movie that started buffering, so I tried to play a game and was getting double controller inputs, so I tried to restart. It sat on the restarting screen for a good 15-20 minutes. I tried a quick power button press and nothing. A few minutes later I got a blue screen with "invalid io boost state" and then the system rebooted, but then it was stuck at the bios screen with the spinning dots. I left it for 10 minutes, no change, so I quick pressed power and it turned off. Now all I get is the bios flash screen and "press del or f2 to enter UEFI bios setting". However, I cannot get into the bios by pressing either key. I can't get past this screen. No windows, no bios, nothing.

 

I'm stuck at this point and I need some advice. These are the things I've tried so far.

 

I unplugged the system for 5-10 minutes.

I removed all cables except monitor and power and tried to boot.

Tried to clear CMOS.

Replaces CMOS battery and cleared again.

Tried booting with Windows installer flash drive inserted.

 

 

System is as follows:

Windows 10 64-bit

CPU: AMD 5950X

RAM: 32 GB GSKILL @ 3600Mhz

Graphics Card: GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3080 MASTER 10G

Motherboard: ASUS TUF Gaming X570-Pro (wi-fi)

Noctua NH-D15

Boot Drive: SAMSUNG 970 EVO PLUS M.2 2TB

WD Blue 4 TB SATA SSD

Seasonic FOCUS PX-850

 

 

 

Is it a Bluetooth keyboard?

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6 hours ago, Blue4130 said:

Is it a Bluetooth keyboard?

Nope, usb keyboard. The board and the mouse light up. Everything lights up. The fans spin. They don't spin on the GPU on that screen. I don't recall if there is a hybrid fan setting where they don't turn on until needed or not

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11 hours ago, whispous said:

Good morning!

 

Try getting further with the SSD removed.

After that, try getting further with - if you have two sticks of RAM - one removed, test both.

 

10 hours ago, y0ur5h4d0w said:

enter windows, settings > in the search bar type "bios" it will take you to system > recovery, then press "restart now" on the "advanced startup" tab and you will be able to enter bios from there

 

does your keyboard block num lit up if you toggle it on/off while the PC get to the "press f2 to enter setup" screen? 

also did you try to unplug your SSD as @whispous suggested? the "io" suggests an issue with the boot disk, do you perhaps have a spare HDD even a slow old one or an SSD where you can try to install a fresh windows in it? it would help to understand if it's an SSD issue or something else

 

just for the sake of possibility (really unlikely though) on reddit someone suggests that could be a malware problem but i'm pretty sure it's not, did you install quaked stuff recently?

The unlock lit up, but I couldn't toggle it. But the SSD tip got me in the right direction! I unplugged all drives and got the usual splash screen when you haven't initialized the bios yet. I had an old hard drive hooked up that was causing the issue. Oddly, it wasn't the boot drive. I'll have to try and figure out if I lost any data, but I'm pretty sure most of what was on that drive is backed up somewhere else! Thanks for the advice! I really appreciate it!

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Intel 3770K - Gigabyte z77x-ud3h - 16GB Corsair Vengence LP - GTX 1060 6GB - Corsair Obsidian 650D - OCZ Agility 3 240GB SSD - Seagate Barracuda 2TB - Kingwin Lazer lz-1000 - Dell U2410 UltraSharp - Cooler Master 212+ - Razer Black Widow Ultimate - Razer Imperator - Logitech Z2300 - Sennheiser HD 598SE

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11 hours ago, Evil_Cronos said:

 

The unlock lit up, but I couldn't toggle it. But the SSD tip got me in the right direction! I unplugged all drives and got the usual splash screen when you haven't initialized the bios yet. I had an old hard drive hooked up that was causing the issue. Oddly, it wasn't the boot drive. I'll have to try and figure out if I lost any data, but I'm pretty sure most of what was on that drive is backed up somewhere else! Thanks for the advice! I really appreciate it!

ok so this means that the disk could be (or mostly actually IS) faulty. to check further you could put that HDD into an USB enclosure and check if you can mount it in windows, mostly you probably can't if the issue is deep and it will slow down your PC untill it probably freeze explorer.exe and you'll need to unplug the HDD and restart, however, if you can mount it quickly save your data somwhere because i don't think that HDD will survive much longer 

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                  .o+`                   ------------------- 
                 `ooo/                   OS: Arch Linux x86_64 
                `+oooo:                  Host: Darkness
               `+oooooo:                 Kernel: Latest  
               -+oooooo+:                Packages: Only what i need to keep it simple
             `/:-:++oooo+:               Shell: ZSH
            `/++++/+++++++:              Main Monitor: LG Ultragear LG 27GS85Q 
           `/++++++++++++++:             Secondary Monitor: Asus MG28UQ
          `/+++ooooooooooooo/`           DE: Plasma Always Bleeding Edge  
         ./ooosssso++osssssso+`          WM: kwin 
        .oossssso-````/ossssss+`         Theme: Breeze-Dark [GTK2], Breeze [GTK3] 
       -osssssso.      :ssssssso.        Icons: Breeze-dark [GTK2/3] 
      :osssssss/        osssso+++.       Terminal: Kitty 
     /ossssssss/        +ssssooo/-       Terminal Font: Noto Color Emoji 17 FreeMono 13 
   `/ossssso+/:-        -:/+osssso+-     CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D (16) @ 5.307GHz 
  `+sso+:-`                 `.-/+oso:    GPU: AMD ATI Radeon RX 7800 XT 
 `++:.                           `-/+/   GPU: AMD ATI Radeon Graphics 
 .`                                 `/   Memory: 61830MiB

 

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