Windows10 PC Freezes at Login

[shtherightway]

Hello community,

First time posting. Hopefully the only time.




Have a PC that free upgraded from 8.1 to 10 mid 2017. I bought a new graphics card (Geforce 960) and new ssd ( Samsung EVO 850 1TB) within that time, and migrated my OS from my hdd to the ssd. (Yes I know I should keep it on the hdd now, didn't at the time)

Recently made a move 5h away from where I used to live, started up PC and it froze on the login screen. Tried recovery options including repair and restore, to no avail. After attempting several different options mentioned by friends, I finally just pulled everything out and reseated my entire case. CMOS battery and all. PC started fine enough, got to login...and allowed me passage. 10seconds into booting onto desktop...it froze again. And now doesn;t read my hhd.

This literally all started happening after my PC automatically downloaded the "MS Upgrade Assistant Manager", and attempted the latest updates. It never quite finished installing them before my PC borked...and now won't stop freezing at login. Any ideas? I'm willing to try anything without reinstalling the OS. I'm afraid it'll ask me for a key, even though I upgraded naturally. I don't have the budget to get a new key or parts.
Desperate here; many thanks in advance.




ASUS Prebuild from MC

Intel i5-3570 @ 3.4ghz

EVGA Geforce GTX 960

(Windows Update Info) Stuck on Update version 14393

 

[Paul NZ]

i would get the mediacreation tool and get the ISO which will be a later build of Win10

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

Then use rufus and put it on a flash drive http://rufus.akeo.ie/

Put a flash drive in a port, If the mobo has a UEFI BIOS select GPT for partition. If it doesnt select MBR add ISO

Wait for it to finish, then boot from the flash drive

When you get to windows setup delete all partitions first then install windows

If it activated after the upgrade it should activate again if you reinstall

 

[shtherightway]

So I've downloaded MediaCreation tool from Windows onto my spare laptop, and have acquired rufus as well. How do I extract the ISO to load into rufus? Sorry. >_<

 

[Paul NZ]

Put a flash drive in a port. Make sure there's nothing on it that you want. Because Rufus will format it

If the mobo has a UEFI bios select GPT for partition in rufus. If it doesnt select MBR, add the ISO, click start wait for it to finish

Reboot change the bootdisk to flash drive. Boot from it / get to setup delete ALL partitions first then reinstall windows

Enable AHCI and secureboot / UEFI (if its Win10 64 bit)

Dont press a key everytime it restarts. Let it continue till it's in Windows