Automatic repair loop

[Mark Christie]

Hi All ,

This may be a long post so I apologise . I gave my old PC to my girlfriends cousin , the specs are as follows

Ryzen 5 3600x
2x8 gb ram
2070 super
Msi 570x gaming plus

Now the only thing i replaced was a m2 drive. I removed all of my old drives and moved them to my new computer . I installed windows 11 and booted it up a few times and all was good .

I received a message the other day saying they have been running into problems with your device ran into a problem and needs to restart . This would happen a few times but the computer would start . Eventually it gave up the ghost and was constantly going into automatic repair . Regardless what I advised nothing helped. I tried sfc /scannow etc but nothing . I told them to do a complete fresh install of windows 11 but it will load but after they restart thd computer it the same thing happens . The only thing different was they didn't install the gpu drivers and after they did, it crashed and went into automatic repair again. I don't know if that's just a coincidence.

When they tried to install windows again it said windows failed . I've tried a restore point but nothing will work. As I say the computer does load sometimes but then the minute it closes down or restarts it comes up automatic repair.

Does anyone have any suggestions ? I'm going up this weekend and I'm going to try and change the ram over and see if that's the issue . If not could it be the new m2 drive ? It's weird how it does load sometimes but not always .

Thanks.

 

[MarcLister]

It might be worth booting into safe mode and checking out the Event Viewer to see what the original error that forced the computer to restart then go into the automatic repair loop was.

Was the M.2 drive new or was it already used when you added it to the computer? What GPU drivers did they install and where did they get them from? Did the graphics drivers need updating in the first place?

 

[Mark Christie]

It might be worth booting into safe mode and checking out the Event Viewer to see what the original error that forced the computer to restart then go into the automatic repair loop was.

Was the M.2 drive new or was it already used when you added it to the computer? What GPU drivers did they install and where did they get them from? Did the graphics drivers need updating in the first place?

They tried to boot into safe mode but it comes up with something happened your pin isn't available .

M.2 was brand new and the only thing installed into the computer . I'm taking an sata ssd up to see if that makes a difference and to put windows on that . They installed it straight from nvidia's website . I'm not sure if it did but I'm not sure if gpu drivers get wiped when windows is deleted .

 

[Sirrel Squirrel]

Try disabling the onboard graphics, I had this issue with Windows 11 and it trying to load the Nvidia drivers for the onboard graphics causing the boot loop.