PC completely bricked?

JonRGV250 · 26 Nov 2022 at 07:56

I turned on my PC this morning only to be greeted with no option to use my passcode, and after that, whenever I reboot the PC it says your device ran into a problem and it needs to restart, and then restarts but doesn’t post.
Or..
It goes into a recovery page with the error 0xc0000225 which gives the options of..
Enter to try again (which restarts the PC as above)
F1 to enter recovery environment (which just returns to the same page)
F8 for start up settings which gives 9 options, all of which take me to your device ran into a problem etc
Esc for EUFI which takes me to BIOS
I’ve tried downloading win 10 installation onto a thumb drive via my MacBook, but that won’t work as it throws error 1309 as the file is over 4GB.
If I mash F11 it gives the option to select boot drive (goes to your device ran into a problem and it needs to restart and restarts and doesn’t post) or startup settings which goes to the 9 options.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

JonRGV250 · 26 Nov 2022 at 08:09

Thanks, but my Mac only gives the options of MS-DOS FAT 32, ExFAT or 2 Mac OS options and nothing for NTFS.
Edit
Downloaded NTFS for Mac and will try now.

JonRGV250 · 26 Nov 2022 at 08:29

Thanks, I’m giving it a go.

JonRGV250 · 26 Nov 2022 at 11:56

I formatted the flash drive in NTFS and still nothing.
I've set the drive to Boot in bios..

and if I try to boot from here...

nothing happens, but if I boot from the nvme that the OS is on, it just gives the 0xc0000225 error.
I've ordered a new flash drive to try, and other than that, what else can I do?
New mobo? Throw the whole thing in the trash and start again?

JonRGV250 · 26 Nov 2022 at 12:41

It would seem so..

Thanks

JonRGV250 · 26 Nov 2022 at 14:28

The later, I’m guessing this could be my problem?

JonRGV250 · 26 Nov 2022 at 17:42

Thanks, I tried all 3 of those..
UNetbootin won't run and isn't compatible with Big Sur, UUByte wants $30 to use, but I had a little success with Etcher, in that I got to the start-up repair windows page, but it couldn't repair my PC, then it restarted and I'm back to square one with the same error codes.
I can try to build a bootable USB on a win PC at work, but have no idea how to, or I can just buy a USB or whatever from eBay that'll do the job?
Thanks for the advice so far though

JonRGV250 · 27 Nov 2022 at 11:40

Hurrah, finally sorted it!
Had to download Windows onto my MacBook, and then create the bootable USB, and also remove the nvme that had the OS on it as it was for some reason screwing things up.
The only problem I have now is that I want to put the nvme back in and wipe it, but am worried that it'll cause all sorts of problems again.