Win10 custom PC stopped booting - Lemmy.World
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Just started today. Was able to let it automatic repair and boot up. Was on for like 10 hours, shut down and tried to boot up some hours later. Now its completely stuck on automatic repair. Have unplugged all additional hdd’s and then all unnesscarry USB’s. Still doing this. Also removed my ethernet card. Still the same. I cannot lose my data. I have several SSD’s and HDD’s with important files across several of them.

I dont know what to do. It won’t boot at all now. Just gets stuck on the asus logo. Bad motherboard perhaps? How could I check? Buy a new motherboard and hope it fixes the issue?

  • Maki@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    91·
    1 month ago

    Look up the stop code. It’s there for a reason. driver_pnp_watchdog infers a driver failed during boot. Look for how to solve that using windows’ own repair tool.

    • dotCody@lemmy.worldOP
      21·
      1 month ago

      The BSOD was a one off. Now the thing refuses to boot and gets stuck on the asus logo or the automatic repair every couple of forced shutdowns. Is my motherboard faulty??

      • Maki@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        7·
        1 month ago

        You need to run a checklist from least invasive to most invasive to be sure. Do you have a means to run a liveboot of any random Linux distro to just see whether the system will boot from it? If it does, it’s probably not your motherboard but more likely a damaged drive.

      • teft@piefed.socialEnglish
        51·
        1 month ago

        The asus logo is often just the windows logo with a theme applied. Can you boot into safe mode at all?

            • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club
              21·
              1 month ago

              Given your downvote I assume you can’t get to UEFI before UEFI starts booting Windows (in the pic), that the keyboard presses do nothing.

              This might be basic, but have you checked if the keyboard or keyboard connection is faulty?
              (I mean trying with a different keyboard or a different set of USB ports.)

      • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        3·
        1 month ago

        I would expect your boot drive to fail before your motherboard.

        Do you have a windows installer or something else you can boot off of? If that boots then your board is probably fine.