Question Windows loading fails into post looping Windows 11 only on hard resets.

[Bromshow]

With the PC shut off I can turn it on and it will post, once in screen with the windows loading circle, the pc shuts off and the post beep sounds and it starts to boot up again and never does. The only way to fix it is to hard turn off the PC, and turn it on again. Once I am in and do soft resets I have no issue, but every night when I turn off the PC fully I have the issue the next morning. It always fails in the same spot, on the windows loading screen. I have no other issues with the PC, no blue screens etc.

Things I have done to fix it:
-Reformat/Reinstall windows 11 multiple times
-Reinstall and use different Nvidia driver versions multiple times
-Update Bios multiple times to current non beta bios version (problem has been ongoing since I built it a year ago or so I have updated bios twice or 3 times at this point)
-Reseat ram and run memtest with no errors
-Reseat SSD
-Disable/Enable memory context restore in bios
-Enabling/Disabling XMP profile

For having no issues with the PC other than it failing in the same spot every time I feel like theres an issue with a driver or something of the like, I dont see how it could be a hardware issue that only produces and reproduces 1 problem.

Another hint was I recently reformatted 4 days ago and went all of that time until now without an issue, now all of a sudden its happening again. I am stumped.

Motherboard : MSI B650 Carbon WIFI MS 7D74
Ram: 64GB Trident DDR5 Stock I think is 3000mhz and 6000mhz with XMP
CPU 7800X3D
CPU Cooler NZXT Kraken 360MM
GPU 4090
SSD Crucial T705
PSU EVGA 1500W P2 7 years old
OS Windows 11

Bios version 1.I0 5/14/2025
Nvidia version 576.88 July 01 2025

 

[Lutfij]

Motherboard : MSI B650
Ram: 64GB Trident
CPU 7800X3D
GPU 4090
SSD Crucial T705
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Reformat/Reinstall windows 11 multiple times
Did you recreate the bootable USB installer for your OS to rule out a corruption? Did you install the OS in offline mode, manually installing all relevant drivers meant for your platform with the latest versions in an elevated command, i.e, Right click installer>Run as Administrator(while in offline mode)?

-Update Bios multiple times to current non beta bios version (problem has been ongoing since I built it a year ago or so I have updated bios twice or 3 times at this point)
After flashing the BIOS to the latest version, did you clear the CMOS? Speaking of BIOS, considering MSI have a number of B65 chipset boards, which one are you working with?

Reseat SSD
Are you working with one drive in your platform?

 

[Bromshow]

Did you recreate the bootable USB installer for your OS to rule out corruption?

Not this time but in the several times that I have reformatted over the last year at some point I had to remake the USB so my answer is I think so, I am not against trying it again with a newly created media copy but I dont think that is the issue since it worked for 4 days and then stopped working, would that not point to something else?

Did you install the OS in offline mode, manually installing all relevant drivers meant for your platform?

Yes

After flashing bios to the latest version, did you clear the cmos?

I have in past troubleshooting attempts removed the battery and cleared CMOS to no avail. On this particular try after updating to the latest BIOS I just chose the option to return to all default settings in the bios menu since hard removing the battery never solved the problem in the past either.

Are you working with one drive in your platform?

If you are talking about a single SSD then yes I have only 1

 

[Bob.B]

With the PC shut off I can turn it on and it will post, once in screen with the windows loading circle, the pc shuts off and the post beep sounds and it starts to boot up again and never does. The only way to fix it is to hard turn off the PC, and turn it on again. Once I am in and do soft resets I have no issue, but every night when I turn off the PC fully I have the issue the next morning. It always fails in the same spot, on the windows loading screen. I have no other issues with the PC, no blue screens etc.

Things I have done to fix it:
-Reformat/Reinstall windows 11 multiple times
-Reinstall and use different Nvidia driver versions multiple times
-Update Bios multiple times to current non beta bios version (problem has been ongoing since I built it a year ago or so I have updated bios twice or 3 times at this point)
-Reseat ram and run memtest with no errors
-Reseat SSD
-Disable/Enable memory context restore in bios
-Enabling/Disabling XMP profile

For having no issues with the PC other than it failing in the same spot every time I feel like theres an issue with a driver or something of the like, I dont see how it could be a hardware issue that only produces and reproduces 1 problem.

Another hint was I recently reformatted 4 days ago and went all of that time until now without an issue, now all of a sudden its happening again. I am stumped.

Motherboard : MSI B650 Carbon WIFI MS 7D74
Ram: 64GB Trident DDR5 Stock I think is 3000mhz and 6000mhz with XMP
CPU 7800X3D
CPU Cooler NZXT Kraken 360MM
GPU 4090
SSD Crucial T705
PSU EVGA 1500W P2 7 years old
OS Windows 11

Bios version 1.I0 5/14/2025
Nvidia version 576.88 July 01 2025

Remove the gpu and connect to the igp.....test.