windows 10 endless loadscreen

[sniperdog]

hello,

 

i cleaned my pc this afternoon but when i came back and wanded to play some games with it, it had a infenite bootscreen. the bootscreen cept on going for 1,5 hours

can anybody tell me what to do? (i am from holland)

[Hackentosher]

21 minutes ago, sniperdog said:

hello,

 

i cleaned my pc this afternoon but when i came back and wanded to play some games with it, it had a infenite bootscreen.

can anybody tell me what to do? (i am from holland)

It might have just frozen on boot. Did you try a hard reset? If that didn't work, run memtest32.

[tekgeek1205]

Pull the plug(hold power button 6 sec) try again and report here.

You can also try to role back to a restore point by booting in to the recovery mode. Step 4 here : http://www.digitalcitizen.life/4-ways-boot-safe-mode-windows-10

or just force reboot it a couple of times and windows will since a problem and boot in to recovery mode then role back to you closest restore point. 

[tekgeek1205]

if none of that is possible, you have a hardware problem. My guess would be the RAM or the boot drive.

[sniperdog]

1 minute ago, tekgeek1205 said:

Pull the plug(hold power button 6 sec) try again and report here.

You can also try to role back to a restore point by booting in to the recovery mode. Step 4 here : http://www.digitalcitizen.life/4-ways-boot-safe-mode-windows-10

or just force reboot it a couple of times and windows will since a problem and boot in to recovery mode then role back to you closest restore point. 

i tried all of that. nothing works. thanks for youre help man!

[sniperdog]

1 minute ago, tekgeek1205 said:

Pull the plug(hold power button 6 sec) try again and report here.

You can also try to role back to a restore point by booting in to the recovery mode. Step 4 here : http://www.digitalcitizen.life/4-ways-boot-safe-mode-windows-10

or just force reboot it a couple of times and windows will since a problem and boot in to recovery mode then role back to you closest restore point. 

i tried all of that. nothing works. thanks for youre help man!

[sniperdog]

11 minutes ago, Hackentosher said:

It might have just frozen on boot. Did you try a hard reset? If that didn't work, run memtest32.

how do i do a hard reset?

[sniperdog]

1 minute ago, tekgeek1205 said:

if none of that is possible, you have a hardware problem. My guess would be the RAM or the boot drive.

i think its my boot drive(i hope so)

[Hackentosher]

2 minutes ago, sniperdog said:

how do i do a hard reset?

If you have a reset switch on your case, that should do it, or hold the power button for 10 seconds, or just pull the plug.

[sniperdog]

1 minute ago, Hackentosher said:

If you have a reset switch on your case, that should do it, or hold the power button for 10 seconds, or just pull the plug.

tried that for 10 times. didnt do anything

[tekgeek1205]

i would try reinstalling windows first. That is if you dont have anything on the dive you need to save. Are you on a SDD or HDD

 

What we mean by hard reset would be to hold the power button until it turn off. Possibly pull the power cable and hold the power button 10 sec or so to drain the board of all its power.

[sniperdog]

1 minute ago, tekgeek1205 said:

i would try reinstalling windows first. That is if you dont have anything on the dive you need to save. Are you on a SDD or HDD

 

What we mean by hard reset would be to hold the power button until it turn off. Possibly pull the power cable and hold the power button 10 sec or so to drain the board of all its power.

i dont have a backup and all of my gamefiles are on it  i have a HHD. i tried the hard hard reset many times.

[tekgeek1205]

when you cleaned, was it physical or digital?

[sniperdog]

1 minute ago, tekgeek1205 said:

when you cleaned, what it physical or digital?

physical. i touched the hard drive with the plastic tip of the vacuum cleaner(was at low suckspeed)

[tekgeek1205]

double check all the cables. Maybe even disconnect and reconnect everything. Is there any ticking coming from the drive?

[sniperdog]

2 minutes ago, tekgeek1205 said:

double check all the cables. Maybe even disconnect and reconnect everything. Is there any ticking coming from the drive?

No. Reconected everything and no ticking noises. I hope somebody/anybody can save my files

 

[tekgeek1205]

Do you have another desktop you can put the drive in as a secondary to attempt to read the files?

 

Alternately do you have a spare HDD to install windows to test the rest of the hardware? You need a 20G+ HDD to install Win10.

[tekgeek1205]

P.S.

no ticking is a very good thing. Ive lost many drives to the "click of death"(heads cant read platters)

[sniperdog]

3 minutes ago, tekgeek1205 said:

Do you have another desktop you can put the drive in as a secondary to attempt to read the files?

 

Alternately do you have a spare HDD to install windows to test the rest of the hardware? You need a 20G+ HDD to install Win10.

I dont have a second computer. I am going to find another hard drive. Put win10 on there, boot priorety that one and take all of the important files of it. I think it should work

 

[tekgeek1205]

I think so as well. Your drive is probably getting unrecoverable sector errors on its SMART status. If a new drive gets you in to windows, download crystal disk and check your drives SMART status to conferm and give you 100% confidence it was a bad drive that caused all your problems. 

 

Dont forget to grab your games, they will transfer. Some work arounds (repair the game or adding shortcuts) my be needed. If you have slow internet like I do the thought of re-downloading everything is horrifying.

 

I highly suggest you get an SSD, if you can afford one that will hold all your games. Its a night and day difference. Just a small one to hold windows helps a lot also.

[tekgeek1205]

i just had this thought.....replace the SATA cable before trying the 2nd drive. Back when SATA was new the cables where shit, and some today still are.

[sniperdog]

6 minutes ago, tekgeek1205 said:

I think so as well. Your drive is probably getting unrecoverable sector errors on its SMART status. If a new drive gets you in to windows, download crystal disk and check your drives SMART status to conferm and give you 100% confidence it was a bad drive that caused all your problems. 

 

Dont forget to grab your games, they will transfer. Some work arounds (repair the game or adding shortcuts) my be needed. If you have slow internet like I do the thought of re-downloading everything is horrifying.

 

I highly suggest you get an SSD, if you can afford one that will hold all your games. Its a night and day difference. Just a small one to hold windows helps a lot also.

Thanks for youre advise man! I will go out and take a better look at it tomorrow. I will give it a update at some point.

[tekgeek1205]

thats why the forms are here!

[sniperdog]

16 hours ago, tekgeek1205 said:

thats why the forms are here!

so im now here: i have completly cleaned my drive(digital). put win10 back on it but still having the same problem. but now its doing nothing? just blackscreen and almost no HHD- activety. i think my HHD died

anybody help?

[Devin92]

so its the same HDD u had b4 and u completely cleaned it? try disconnect the HDD and see if u can get to bios. if u can then connect the HDD and try to get to bios and see if system recognize it. If u cant, its sth else failing u.