Just started today. Was able to let it automatic repair and boot up. Was on for like 10 hours, shut down and tried to boot up some hours later. Now its completely stuck on automatic repair. Have unplugged all additional hdd’s and then all unnesscarry USB’s. Still doing this. Also removed my ethernet card. Still the same.
I cannot lose my data. I have several SSD’s and HDD’s with important files across several of them.
Do you have a separate GPU installed and does your CPU/motherboard have a built-in GPU? If so may as well try unplugging the GPU, plugging your monitor into the motherboard video port, and see if the system boots up. (this is just in case it’s actually some GPU issue)
Otherwise, maybe a long shot - How old is your computer? You mentioned Windows 10 which makes me think it’s possibly on the old side… if something like 8-10+ years old it could be that the battery on the motherboard needs to be replaced and your entire system is acting up during reboots (this is especially obvious if there’s any power outages). Try doing a BIOS reset - if there’s a button on the motherboard to do that you should be able to press it, otherwise just take the motherboard battery out, unplug from power for something like 30 seconds, then plug power/battery back in and try a boot up. That could get you to at least boot up past the BIOS and you may want to consider buying a new battery to install into the motherboard. … I don’t know if Windows 10 itself would start after all this but at least you can find out if the hardware is still okay.
I dont think mine has integrated graphics. Its a rog hero crosshair viiii.
5 years old this June. Built it myself. No issues i couldn’t solve or handle on my own until now.
We DID have the power shut off a week or so ago… my PC may have been on during that time. I honestly dont remember.
Could that be the culprit? Why was it fine for almost a whole week?
Not saying that is for sure the culprit, but could be worth a try if you’re not getting anywhere with other solutions. Especially if the system keeps hanging at the BIOS screen before even attempting to boot to USB or Windows.
It’s possible your original build just started out with an older battery so with some luck a replacement could be an easy and cheap fix :)
Oddly that’s how those issues tend to manifest themselves. You start having unreliable boot ups, sometimes it hangs at the BIOS because it lost the prior BIOS config, and somehow the next startup manages to keep going with defaults.
Unfortunately even if that is the issue and you fix it, the prior Windows installation may be pretty broken if it is unable to fix itself… if you manage to get to the point that you consistently get past the BIOS, and Windows itself isn’t repairing it, then maybe the next step is booting off a Windows 10 USB and try to do a repair from there.
Also maybe start thinking about how you’ll back up your data in the case you need to start over with a fresh Windows install… since it’s Windows 10 maybe the universe is telling you it’s time to move onto Windows 11 or migrate over to the world of Linux but that’s your call to make.
Already replaced the CMOS battery. Still the same. I can get into the BIOS no problem. Moving past that and into the OS is just not possible. Constant freezing on the loading screen. 😫
Booting from a usb is not working. Automatic repair is hanging for hours.
Id rather hang myself than downgrade to win11.
Im going to get an nvme adapter, pull the important data off of my c drive and… take the whole bitch to a local pc repair shop. God this is humiliating.
Do you mean just a Windows USB, or anything USB?
Personally what I’d do in that situation is load SystemRescue onto a bootable USB (can use YUMI or Ventoy), boot off that, let it run a memtest for a few passes to rule out RAM issues. Then if that looks okay boot into SystemRescue again and run a smartctl long test against the NVME drive in the computer and make sure those stats look good. That should at least rule out RAM and SSD problems.
With Ventoy you can load other OSes too, copy a Ubuntu Linux ISO on there and see if the system can live boot into Linux. If it does then maybe your issue is purely just Windows being Windows, there’s only so much you can do with a broken install.
Though I’m a bit surprised you can’t at least boot off a Windows USB and go into recovery mode… maybe double-check that your boot USBs actually work on other desktops/laptops? Would be silly but possible you have both a system/Windows issue along with a bad USB drive making things extra confusing.
Yup definitely work on that, feels like even if your hardware is fine/fixable you’re going to have to re-install your entire OS no matter what.