Windows doesn't boot

[Samtan 117]

17 minutes ago, zanthros said:

Booting into safe mode is usually done from inside of Windows 10 while you have it up and running, however it can be done other ways as well. Does it display anything during the boot up process?

I've done it via the windows "what operating system do u want to use" but as I said above, it doesn't load it and just gets stuck on loading circle thing

[NTDaws]

3 hours ago, Samtan 117 said:

So yesterday I switched out my graphics card(gainward gtx 580) with a GTX 560 to test it out. When I booted into Windows I was expecting to have to install new drivers but apparently not, I went and benchmarked it and I was pleased with the results. I then switched the cards back and left it for the morning. When I turned on my computer, everything seemed fine, I clicked the windows option(to boot into) and I got a black screen. My first thought was to turn it off and on again, that didn't work so it may have been the drivers so I tried booting into safe mode, I'm seeing the circle loading thing but nothing has happened for about 30 mins. After some googling I saw someone with a similar problem that all they did was change the voltage on their ram but there is 3 problems about that 1) I can't access my bios because my stupid asus motherboard doesn't recognise USB input at POST(it was fine before I upgraded to Windows 10 and I have tried updating the drivers)

2) I don't know my ram  I took it out from a prebuilt system 

3) it seemed to be working for a year so I doubt it has something to do with that.

 

And do now I'm stuck and going to this forum for help

 

Did you press the power button?

[Samtan 117]

58 minutes ago, zanthros said:

Booting into safe mode is usually done from inside of Windows 10 while you have it up and running, however it can be done other ways as well. Does it display anything during the boot up process?

The loading circle is still there but I saw my mouse there so I moved it and it turned into the text icon thing so I assumed it was my password area as it was Center of moniter, I typed my password and it looked like (from the mouse) I had got onto the desktop... however I still see the black screen with the loading circle at bottom

 

 

edit: now I'm guessing I'm on the desktop, at the Center of the screen my mouse turns into the finger thing that looks like I'm on a link  idk how else to describe it

[Samtan 117]

Sorry but I need to bump this to the top  I need replies

[NeoFrux]

Okay, so if you put the "working" GPU in, the computer boots, right? While you have Windows up and running with that other card, uninstall the NVidia driver altogether. For good measure, go to Device Manager and right-click on it under Display Adapters and click Uninstall, checking the "Delete the driver software for this device" checkbox. Shut it down before it can run off to Windows Update and download the driver again, then swap the cards and see if you get anything out of it. If so, go ahead and reinstall the driver.

 

You could also try going to your power plan under Power Options -> Change advanced power settings -> PCI Express -> Link State Power Management and changing it to Off just to be on the safe side.

[Samtan 117]

1 hour ago, Runefox said:

Okay, so if you put the "working" GPU in, the computer boots, right? While you have Windows up and running with that other card, uninstall the NVidia driver altogether. For good measure, go to Device Manager and right-click on it under Display Adapters and click Uninstall, checking the "Delete the driver software for this device" checkbox. Shut it down before it can run off to Windows Update and download the driver again, then swap the cards and see if you get anything out of it. If so, go ahead and reinstall the driver.

 

You could also try going to your power plan under Power Options -> Change advanced power settings -> PCI Express -> Link State Power Management and changing it to Off just to be on the safe side.

I haven't tried what you have suggested yet however when I go into safe mode, the computer boots just the black loading screen doesn't go away. I can tell when I enter my password in correctly because of my mouse animations. I can also move it . Once I think I'm on the desktop I move my mouse around further and find a tab I can resize and a link of some sort so I'm definitely on the desk top, I've tried control alt delete, alt tab and shift 5 times. I've also got this far without going into safe mode one time before however it was just a black screen and a mouse instead of just the loading circle animation black screen and a mouse. I feel like this information wasn't clear enof in the comments so I thought I would just put it here, when I put the different card in, everything works fine... so based on this (what I think of new to you) information would u still recommend doing what u said. (Also I just don't like removing and adding a graphics cards in the s340 case xD)

[NeoFrux]

1 minute ago, Samtan 117 said:

so based on this (what I think of new to you) information would u still recommend doing what u said. (Also I just don't like removing and adding a graphics cards in the s340 case xD)

Yes, though since Safe Mode doesn't actually use the display driver, it gives me less hope that it'll work. It's beginning to sound more and more like a video memory problem with that card to be honest.

[Samtan 117]

53 minutes ago, Runefox said:

Yes, though since Safe Mode doesn't actually use the display driver, it gives me less hope that it'll work. It's beginning to sound more and more like a video memory problem with that card to be honest.

I'll try it tomorrow but if it is a video memory problem which seems to make sense, what can I do to fix it? If I can fix it at all

[NeoFrux]

16 minutes ago, Samtan 117 said:

I'll try it tomorrow but if it is a video memory problem which seems to make sense, what can I do to fix it? If I can fix it at all

Well, if it's a memory problem on the card, there's unfortunately not much you can do from that point. Not to say this is the last troubleshooting step, but if it's the card, it'll have to be replaced.

[zanthros]

Card is fine. To verify this put the other card in and boot the system into safe mode. You will probably find that you  get the same result that you have now. You need a Windows 10 repar disc. You should always make a repair disc when you get a machine or after changing operating systems. I would look around for one as it seems you need to restore your system. I would suggest that you search "Windows 10 have a system restore" with only a spinning icon that lasts forever with no change it seems that you need to repair the operating system as is is not going to boot until you fix it.