Recently I have taken a finished build to my father, as he had no working computer. But it seems Windows is so fragile these days that taking the graphics card out and using the onboard (because we didn't have the right cable for his older monitor) is enough to send it into an automatic repair loop. When i visited him again this weekend with a cord and tried to h boot and install drivers on the machine, that's when it went into its death spiral.
So my plan is to just visit him again sometime and reinstall Windows. But now (just now, like 10 minutes ago), I restarted my own PC bc Steam was acting up and I figured maybe a restart would fix it. And now my own PC is in the auto repair loop. Inserting the CD and trying to use that to fix it just gives me a blank, blue screen. It's completely broken. I can't get It to do anything.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Oh, and, ugh... FUCK YOU MICRO$OFT! I SPENT MONEY ON YOUR BROKEN PILE OF SHIT!
Try to give more details on the steps that took to W10 to a bootloop because sounds really weird. I have a pair of PCs upgraded to W10 one from W7 and one from W8.1 without format and they both don't have any particular issue, sometimes they just hang but nothin more than that. If your post was just a rant about how bad Windows is I feel you because I had Windows XP and I know how's have missing DLLs and broken installation.
See, that's the problem: there are no steps that lead up to my PC going into this loop. Steam wasn't loading and it was saying it was already running a game when it wasn't. So I rebooted. That's literally all that happened. I have no further details. My automatic updates are turned off. No changes to the PC have been made. Last night I was playing Skyrim through Steam perfectly fine. I have nothing that might give more details. And looking online, it seems this is not only a very common problem, but it always happens out of nowhere to other people.
No. It just did mobo logo -> starting automatic repair -> something pops up and goes away instantly -> black screen. It's done this before after changing boot options.
No, it's completely locked up. However, I just noticed that I had set boot to legacy but my boot order was still UEIF. I'm retrying now off the CD.
But after showing the win10 logo, all its giving me is a blue screen.
Know what, fuck it... I'm going to try to boot off win7 CD. If it works, I'm just going to reinstall 7. 10 had been a complete nightmare since day one and there are literally only two things I like about 10: the new start menu with tiles and how my screen background slideshow is independent between my two monitors.
This will be the 5th installation on this new SSD that I got just after thanksgiving. Yes, my upgrade to Win10 has been that stupid. I have easily wasted 30 hours in my system alone. And 20 hours on my father's.
Now... While I was typing that bit about retrying Win7, I retried legacy boot work everything else unplugged. Amazingly, I'm in the system repair screen now...
If anybody can find a solution to the startup loop, I'll try to fix 10 so I don't have to deal with activation keys and other BS for the 5th time. I only have my phone now, so it's slow going to find a solution. Any article links are appreciated.
Just tried "reset this PC." and got the error "the drive where Windows is installed is locked." WTF does that even mean? How am I supposed to unlock it? Just... Ugh.
I don't believe it... After all that, it just randomly boots back up, no problem at all. I'm now logged in to my desktop.
I have no idea what is wrong with this thing. But if it's going to work at all, maybe I can fix it from the desktop. Now I can search online and fix whatever I can find.
Thanks for your time guys. I'll post back if anything goes wrong... Again.
I keep everything else disabled. My boot order is 1: Windows boot manager, 2: P0 - numbers and such that is my SSD, 3: P1 - numbers and such that is my CDrom