computer refuses to boot...

[Bananasplit_00]

it all started about two days before i got my I7, i was playing Paladins and i got a BSOD(Paladins was the only thing that could take it down lol) and then i booted back into the computer, it seemed fine but after just a bit it froze up, mouse still working, keyboard still working. i could move around the UI, drag stuff around and all that but all programs were compleatly frozen and unresponsive, i could open programs but not close them, not even using taskmanager. i turned it off and held the powerbutton for a while and then booted with no problems. i got the probem again the next day when strating a game it would after just a little bit just freeze up in the same way. i got my I7 4790K and installed it, on first boot it hanged on loading the BIOS so i turned it off again, flipped the PSU switch and pressed the powerbutton for a bit and then started it up again and it booted just fine. when i went to do some overclocking on it i noticed after a bit that it was crashing because my memory timings were out of wack, they had all gone down by one, makeing it boot but not pass any load. so i fixed that, pressed F10, and it hung on loading the BIOS again. same procedure again, and it booted fine with the changed memory settings and so on. i put the CPU back to stock later because of heat but when i pressed F10, again, it hung on the BIOS again. anyway i got it into windows again, everything was working fine today and i was playing some OSU, i go to tab out to another window and BAM the freeze hits again. it did this for sevral more games and all it seems to be able to do no problem is web browsing  i have put back everything to stock, reinstalled GPU drivers clean with DDU and that didnt help either but now here comes the real kicker, i updated the BIOS to the latest version and now it dosent boot at all past the BIOS, a message that says: "loading GRUB please wait 5 seconds" comes up and then it reboots and it keeps going. i can get into the BIOS but its refusing to go past loading the BIOS and wont reach windows.... so someone tell me what to do here, im thinking il need a new motherboard tbh, this one has a few small scratches but nothing that is shorting any traces, it got compleatly cleaned when i put in the new CPU and the problem was there before the new CPU even so its not the CPU or RAM. GPU shouldent cause issues like this either so its not that which leaves two things, motherboard and harddrives. the harddrives are as far as i know in good helth(checked about a week back in crystaldisk info) so it all points to the motherboard at this point, but if you have any other clue what it might be id love to hear, il test basically anything seeing as it can barely get any worse unless it goes up in litteral famles  

[openthatchest]

give it to me simple

[Drakeblade]

If you're certain you have set everything back to stock, and have disabled xmp profiles. I'd assume you probably have a hard drive issue. However I wouldn't like how it has frozen while in the BIOS. The two things I'd do is remove all but 1 stick of ram and swap through them and see if any changes to your boot order happen. After I'd pull the hard drive plug it into another machine and run a scan on it to see if throws any errors.

I'm slightly confused what OS you are running. I'm not super familiar with Ubuntu, but I assume you are running some version of it since the message you are getting is "loading GRUB please wait 5 seconds". I feel like I've seen that error mostly on Linux machines. But you say you booted into windows a couple of times. Do you have a 2nd drive that after messing with settings that your pc is trying to boot into?

Edit: Sorry its early, Ubuntu is simply the one I've seen Grub errors on the most.

[paddy-stone]

You could try installing another linux distro, unless you know how to fix the GRUB bootloader from within a LIVE distro? but I'm assuming not. So grab a linux distro on USB, install it in a new partition and it will overwrite the GRUB entries it finds. Restart and done. Just use a 4GB partition or something if you don't actuallt wnat to use the new distro you're installing.

[Bananasplit_00]

4 hours ago, Drakeblade said:

If you're certain you have set everything back to stock, and have disabled xmp profiles. I'd assume you probably have a hard drive issue. However I wouldn't like how it has frozen while in the BIOS. The two things I'd do is remove all but 1 stick of ram and swap through them and see if any changes to your boot order happen. After I'd pull the hard drive plug it into another machine and run a scan on it to see if throws any errors.

I'm slightly confused what OS you are running. I'm not super familiar with Ubuntu, but I assume you are running some version of it since the message you are getting is "loading GRUB please wait 5 seconds". I feel like I've seen that error mostly on Linux machines. But you say you booted into windows a couple of times. Do you have a 2nd drive that after messing with settings that your pc is trying to boot into?

Edit: Sorry its early, Ubuntu is simply the one I've seen Grub errors on the most.

im running windws 10, there are no XMP profiles for my RAM, i restored defults to get everything back to stock(exept GPU ofc but that only OCs once you get in the OS)

4 hours ago, paddy-stone said:

You could try installing another linux distro, unless you know how to fix the GRUB bootloader from within a LIVE distro? but I'm assuming not. So grab a linux distro on USB, install it in a new partition and it will overwrite the GRUB entries it finds. Restart and done. Just use a 4GB partition or something if you don't actuallt wnat to use the new distro you're installing.

while i do like Linux there isnt more then some ISO files in my downloads of them on that computer, no bootable USB sticks and its not installed on any harddrive. the OS is windows 10  

4 hours ago, openthatchest said:

give it to me simple

well sure, just sign a contract where you will promise to fix it and send it back all for free first though