Problem: Black Screen With Mouse Cursor

[Kayano]

While I was playing a PUG of CS:GO I kept changing my resolution and aspect ratio. All of a sudden, my PC froze so I restarted the computer. However, when the computer rebooted, it was stuck in an endless bios loop, so I kept restarting the computer to trigger the "Automatic Repair". After a couple of minutes the screen changes to a black screen with only a mouse cursor. I have tried, but "Ctrl + Alt + Del" won't work. If I wait around for a bit the screen changes again to a blue screen with quite a few options. Now, I am stuck and don't know how to fix this issue. Any feedback would be appreciated as I am quite puzzled by this.

 

My computer specifications are the following:

Intel i5 6600k

Asus Z-170 A

Corsair 8GB (4GB x 2) 2400 Memory

MSI RX 480 4GB

Western Digital Green (1.5TB)

Western Digital Blue (500GB)

EVGA 500B

Deepcool Gamaxx 400

[Billy_Mays]

Did you OC your 6600K?

[doomsriker]

Do you have any other desk tops or laptops that you could swap in the hard drive from and try to boot to that hard drive. That way you would know if it is an OS or a hardware problem. 

[doomsriker]

2 minutes ago, Billy_Mays said:

Did you OC your 6600K?

Good point. Could be an unstable over Clock and a bios flash is necessary.

[Princess Luna]

Out of my personal experience your boot HDD is failing/slow.

[Kayano]

I haven't pushed the i5 6600k too hard, it's only been over locked to 4.0Ghz. The hard drive may be a problem, both of them are from old prebuilt computers from around the 1st gen i5s.

[themctipers]

2 minutes ago, Kayano said:

I haven't pushed the i5 6600k too hard, it's only been over locked to 4.0Ghz. The hard drive may be a problem, both of them are from old prebuilt computers from around the 1st gen i5s.

yup..

try to put it in another computer and run crystal disk info, and then take everything off..

then buy a ssd and use that.

[Kayano]

I made a windows media creation tool (USB). I tried to format a drive (500GB) and is been loading for like 30 mins. Is this normal?

[godzilla5123]

3 minutes ago, Kayano said:

I made a windows media creation tool (USB). I tried to format a drive (500GB) and is been loading for like 30 mins. Is this normal?

 

That is absolutely not normal. Your HDD may have an issue then.

[Kayano]

Any possible way to stop the format process?