- Mar 25, 2017
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Hi,
I'm not sure where the best place for this post is. I hope I selected the correct one.
I'm having trouble with my gaming pc. It's freezing on the "MAG" Screen after it get's passed the ability to get into bios. My motherboard is a MSI Tomahawk B550. The power went out twice yesterday and the PC was on both times it went off. It froze a couple times yesterday when I tried to boot it up after the 2nd power outage, but ran fine the rest of the night. I even upgraded to windows 11. I went to sleep and everything was fine. I came back the next morning and the screen was black/asleep and frozen. I restarted the PC and that's where the hang ups really started.
I'm unable to boot to a Windows 11 or 10 USB, but can boot to a memtest USB without issue. The PC will either freeze before booting to the OS or will freeze shortly after it boots to the OS. I can move around for a minute or two then it freezes. One time out of probably 30 attempts it did not freeze. I probably could of left it running and it would've been fine..but i restarted to see if the issue was actually fixed or not.
My PC has had some odd crashes here in the last few months. I've tried updating some drivers here and there and issues would go away. My initial thought is this is a hard drive problem, but I'm really not sure at this point.
This is what I've done up to this point:
1. Upgraded BIOs.
2. Reset the CMOS
3. Took one RAM stick out. Haven't taken the other one out yet.
4. Ran a Memtest with both RAM sticks installed and no errors at about half way of the 3rd out of 4th stage before I ended. Usually when I've had RAM sticks to fail it shows errors before then. So with it being at 0 errors 3/4 I figured it was safe to assume those are fine.
5. Booting without any peripherals installed.
6. I have two m.2 drives in my PC. One for games and the other for the OS system. I took the one with the OS system out and it still would not boot to a Windows USB without freezing before hand. When I try to let it boot up without making it go to the USB it just goes straight to the Bios. I assume that's the new way of doing it instead of saying bootable device cannot be found.
7. I did error checks on both hard drives when it did boot and stay up for a while (the one time it did).
8. I've tried a Windows 10 USB, a Windows 11 USB, and another USB with Windows 11 on it.
I'm really stumped on where to go from this point. I'm barrowing a PSU and a motherboard to test with, but I find it would be odd that they would be the problem considering it ran just fine last night.
Any help would be much appreciated,
thank you
I'm not sure where the best place for this post is. I hope I selected the correct one.
I'm having trouble with my gaming pc. It's freezing on the "MAG" Screen after it get's passed the ability to get into bios. My motherboard is a MSI Tomahawk B550. The power went out twice yesterday and the PC was on both times it went off. It froze a couple times yesterday when I tried to boot it up after the 2nd power outage, but ran fine the rest of the night. I even upgraded to windows 11. I went to sleep and everything was fine. I came back the next morning and the screen was black/asleep and frozen. I restarted the PC and that's where the hang ups really started.
I'm unable to boot to a Windows 11 or 10 USB, but can boot to a memtest USB without issue. The PC will either freeze before booting to the OS or will freeze shortly after it boots to the OS. I can move around for a minute or two then it freezes. One time out of probably 30 attempts it did not freeze. I probably could of left it running and it would've been fine..but i restarted to see if the issue was actually fixed or not.
My PC has had some odd crashes here in the last few months. I've tried updating some drivers here and there and issues would go away. My initial thought is this is a hard drive problem, but I'm really not sure at this point.
This is what I've done up to this point:
1. Upgraded BIOs.
2. Reset the CMOS
3. Took one RAM stick out. Haven't taken the other one out yet.
4. Ran a Memtest with both RAM sticks installed and no errors at about half way of the 3rd out of 4th stage before I ended. Usually when I've had RAM sticks to fail it shows errors before then. So with it being at 0 errors 3/4 I figured it was safe to assume those are fine.
5. Booting without any peripherals installed.
6. I have two m.2 drives in my PC. One for games and the other for the OS system. I took the one with the OS system out and it still would not boot to a Windows USB without freezing before hand. When I try to let it boot up without making it go to the USB it just goes straight to the Bios. I assume that's the new way of doing it instead of saying bootable device cannot be found.
7. I did error checks on both hard drives when it did boot and stay up for a while (the one time it did).
8. I've tried a Windows 10 USB, a Windows 11 USB, and another USB with Windows 11 on it.
I'm really stumped on where to go from this point. I'm barrowing a PSU and a motherboard to test with, but I find it would be odd that they would be the problem considering it ran just fine last night.
Any help would be much appreciated,
thank you
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