[SOLVED] Windows 10 freezes on spinning dots

[Regentix]

Hello!

I've got quite an annoying problem with my windows 10 desktop.
Last week, I was playing games on my computer, as I do every night. While in game, my computer decided to just shut off without any warning.

Since then I've restarted it about 50 times, for it to get stuck on the spinning dots every time.
I've tried messing around with some settings in the BIOS, to no result. Or well... I've had to clear CMOS (by replacing the jumper), since the pc couldn't boot at all after.

Giphy of a reboot:
https://giphy.com/gifs/KGfSrV0iLCxXaaFCcP
In this case, the screen will just stay frozen at the spinning, or in this case, frozen dots.

Giphy of a reboot causing animated repair to trigger:
https://giphy.com/gifs/gFtCM78YnSFXVoWtGp
In this case, the screen will stay black.

Giphy of booting into a bootable USB to reinstall windows 10:
https://giphy.com/gifs/H4nOiaa9ZmsBXpssyl
In this case, the screen will just stay blue.

I'm not sure what to do here, especially since I thought that booting from the bootable USB, created with the windows 10 media creation tool, would be the fix.
For now I will leave the blue screen open. Perhaps it will enter the windows 10 setup after all.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

 

[maikutech]

Turn off the computer for 1 minute, now power it on, before it goes to the windows post screen.
Reset the computer again, once you do that, you should be able to boot into safemode unless the os is unstable.

It sounds like you might have a hard drive issue, but we won't know for sure until you get a hold of event viewer in safe mode.

 

[onespeedbiker]

One thing you can try is booting with a single stick of ram; if it doesn't work switch the sticks; However it sounds like you lost a power supply.. Unfortunately there is no way to determine this for sure without taking your PC to a computer repair shop or replacing the PSU.

 

[Regentix]

Turn off the computer for 1 minute, now power it on, before it goes to the windows post screen.
Reset the computer again, once you do that, you should be able to boot into safemode unless the os is unstable.

It sounds like you might have a hard drive issue, but we won't know for sure until you get a hold of event viewer in safe mode.

I've just tried to do this. Turning on the pc, then resetting it before the windows logo comes up. But this doesn't allow me to boot into safe mode. Up on resetting, the same thing happens as shown in the Giphy links above.

Also, I've connected another hard drive, which was working, only to get the same result.

 

[maikutech]

Ok one of these 2 should do it:

https://support.avira.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002870214-How-do-I-boot-Windows-10-in-Safe-Mode-

https://www.ccleaner.com/news/blog/how-to-boot-windows-in-safe-mode