Boot screen gets stuck on ASUS logo with turning dots

bijx

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Jun 6, 2014
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My computer was working fine until I turned it off and went for dinner. Upon my return, the computer's boot up was stuck on the Asus (in search of incredible) screen with the spinning dots. I left it in that state for a good fifteen minutes and it remained like that until I returned.

I tried unplugging all my USB devices except my mouse from the computer (in case it was drawing too much power from the motherboard) and still the same result occurred. I attempted to boot up Linux Ubuntu from a USB stick, and it worked, so I am now confident that hardware is not the problem.

I can't even boot up my windows 10 in safe mode because my build has an SSD primary drive and I have know idea where the safe mode feature is on the Asus UEFI BIOS startup settings.

What are my options? What can I do?
 

bijx

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Jun 6, 2014
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After running through tons of diagnostics with the hardware, I noticed that it was actually my Windows 10 which was corrupted. I need to reinstall Windows to get it running.