Hello! Today I had to pack up my desktop PC and bring it from one part of the country to another. I didn't have a lot of time to pack, so I could probably have taken more care. Long story short, when I arrived the graphics card had popped loose. I didn't notice until I tried booting the PC and nothing came up on screen.
After having reseated the graphics card I booted the PC again only to find that apparently windows had decided to start installing an update when I first booted it with the graphics card loose, only I couldn't tell because I had no video output. So I essentially shut the computer down mid-update without realizing, causing the computer to enter a boot loop with the error message "inaccessible boot device".
I ended up performing a system restore to a restore point created earlier this week, except it still wouldn't boot. After that, I tried starting the computer in safe mode, which worked. After that I simply rebooted and everything started as normal.
Everything was running fine until about 20 minutes later when the system suddenly froze completely. I rebooted and everything was fine again for about 10 minutes before the screen went black and I had to hard reset again. From then on, the computer has been working, but it occassionally has stutters, causing the audio to sound "robotic" for a brief second before returning to normal.
Now, I don't know if this is related to the physical bumps it may have taken during the trip or if this is still some form of corruption caused by the mid-update reset or the system restore... I've never experienced anything like this before.
I also want to note that I checked my task manager while the stutters were happening, and I saw no irregular activity and no spikes in CPU, RAM or GPU usage.
Sorry about the long post, I hope the context helps.
After having reseated the graphics card I booted the PC again only to find that apparently windows had decided to start installing an update when I first booted it with the graphics card loose, only I couldn't tell because I had no video output. So I essentially shut the computer down mid-update without realizing, causing the computer to enter a boot loop with the error message "inaccessible boot device".
I ended up performing a system restore to a restore point created earlier this week, except it still wouldn't boot. After that, I tried starting the computer in safe mode, which worked. After that I simply rebooted and everything started as normal.
Everything was running fine until about 20 minutes later when the system suddenly froze completely. I rebooted and everything was fine again for about 10 minutes before the screen went black and I had to hard reset again. From then on, the computer has been working, but it occassionally has stutters, causing the audio to sound "robotic" for a brief second before returning to normal.
Now, I don't know if this is related to the physical bumps it may have taken during the trip or if this is still some form of corruption caused by the mid-update reset or the system restore... I've never experienced anything like this before.
I also want to note that I checked my task manager while the stutters were happening, and I saw no irregular activity and no spikes in CPU, RAM or GPU usage.
Sorry about the long post, I hope the context helps.