Hello,
I have been trying to troubleshoot an Acer Swift that has been stuck in a boot loop.
The system is running Windows 10 Home.
The exact model of the laptop is Acer Swift 1 SF114-32-C3DZ
What happens
When powering on the machine, the green Acer logo appears and the spinning dots appear. After a considerable amount of time, the machine restarts. It is unable to boot or enter the repair utility.
What I have tried
Enabling SATA again means I can no longer successfully boot into the USB. This is not a boot priority problem, as when I try boot directly from USB from F12, I get the same result (endless spinning dots).
This is not my laptop, it is a friends so I would like to avoid opening it if possible, additionally it has those star shaped screws as opposed to phillips (cross) and I don't have the tool to unscrew those.
I've hit a wall here, is there anything else I can try?
Thank you
I have been trying to troubleshoot an Acer Swift that has been stuck in a boot loop.
The system is running Windows 10 Home.
The exact model of the laptop is Acer Swift 1 SF114-32-C3DZ
What happens
When powering on the machine, the green Acer logo appears and the spinning dots appear. After a considerable amount of time, the machine restarts. It is unable to boot or enter the repair utility.
What I have tried
- I have tried using ALT+F10 to enter the recovery settings. This does not work, it displays the Acer logo with the spinning dots and the text "Please wait", but seemingly loads forever.
- I have created Windows Installation Media from the Microsoft tool to create a bootable USB. I then proceeded to disable Secure Boot in BIOS, enable F12 boot manager and change boot priority to USB > Hard drive. However, when the computer appears to try to boot into the USB, but just get the endless spinning dots again.
Enabling SATA again means I can no longer successfully boot into the USB. This is not a boot priority problem, as when I try boot directly from USB from F12, I get the same result (endless spinning dots).
This is not my laptop, it is a friends so I would like to avoid opening it if possible, additionally it has those star shaped screws as opposed to phillips (cross) and I don't have the tool to unscrew those.
I've hit a wall here, is there anything else I can try?
Thank you