Random boot error?

[Tranquill]

Sometimes when I restart my computer, it will go as far as the Window 10 boot screen but, the spinning circles won't appear and I have to hold down the power button and keep trying until it finally goes through and boots fully. Any reason why this occurs and how can I fix it?

[corrado33]

Do you have large hard drives connected to your system? Is the boot order set correctly? Are the HDDS OK? Is the memory OK? Try it with one stick?

[Tranquill]

1 minute ago, corrado33 said:

Do you have large hard drives connected to your system? Is the boot order set correctly? Are the HDDS OK? Is the memory OK? Try it with one stick?

 

I only have a 1tb hard drive connected internally, and Defraggler says it's in good health. I am going to defrag it overnight. The RAM is all good too. Boot order should be correct considering I was able to get into Windows, right now, just okay.

[SuperShermanTanker]

Could be plenty of things I can't really suggest a possible solution without more info on what's going on. You can try to reinsert the SATA cable for your hard drive as the hard drive vibrates and can make a cable come loose overtime, you can also try to just let it sit and boot because it might be a bit slow to load, also you could back up your files and try to reinstall Windows and see if that fixes it. It could be many things and I can't state a definate solution without enough info

[corrado33]

1 minute ago, Tranquill said:

I only have a 1tb hard drive connected internally, and Defraggler says it's in good health. I am going to defrag it overnight. The RAM is all good too. Boot order should be correct considering I was able to get into Windows, right now, just okay.

The bios (I think) will continue looking for bootable drives regardless which drive is set to boot first. I can set my boot drive behind my 4 storage drives in the boot order and it will EVENTUALLY boot, it just takes a while to get there. 

[Tranquill]

1 minute ago, SuperShermanTanker said:

Could be plenty of things I can't really suggest a possible solution without more info on what's going on. You can try to reinsert the SATA cable for your hard drive as the hard drive vibrates and can make a cable come loose overtime, you can also try to just let it sit and boot because it might be a bit slow to load, also you could back up your files and try to reinstall Windows and see if that fixes it. It could be many things and I can't state a definate solution without enough info

 

 

I'll try the first two options over reinstalling Windows, defragging might help a bit too if it is just slow boot time, randomly.

[SuperShermanTanker]

1 minute ago, corrado33 said:

The bios (I think) will continue looking for bootable drives regardless which drive is set to boot first. I can set my boot drive behind my 4 storage drives in the boot order and it will EVENTUALLY boot, it just takes a while to get there. 

set your harddrive that has windows on it as the first drive in the boot order and see if that works