Windows 10 stuck in Automatic Repair Loop

[Jono]

Yesterday I was just playing a bit of Nostalgia-tastic L4D2 and got a BSOD - IRQ not less or equal - not much info.
When it restarted itself it's gone into an Automatic Repair Loop - it fails to fix the problem (not sure what the problem is)

None of the alternative manual recovery options seem to work.
Bootrec reckons there are 0 windows installations. /fixboot /fixmbr say they completed successfully.

If X: = Windows PE recovery thing, then E: is my Windows drive, there's a windows folder on there, and apparently all my files seem to be still intact, or at least present.

The SSD that windows is on is recognised/readable by a windows 7 HDD I had lying around.

I don't know what I can try next to fix it. Windows 10 was auto-updated (I let it happen) from Windows 7 Ultimate x64. I don't have and never created a windows 10 rescue disc/usb.

I tried running DISM from the windows PE with /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth options but they don't work.

sfc /scannow seems to think there are 0 files wrong, but then says it failed to perform the requested operation.

Halp?

 

[lude1962]

BSOD - IRQ not less or equal, knackered windows usually, a driver has updated or changed settings, sfc wont fix it as the files are correct and present.

You could try (unlikely to work)
switching off all hw options in the bios you dont need (nic audio etc), remove gpu if you're not using internal

 

[Jono]

Hmmm. I may just do a clean reinstall. Once I've extracted the data I want to keep. There's not much, really.

 

[AthlonXP1800]

Hmmm my niece had exactly same problem 2 months ago when her mum 2 in 1 HP laptop's Windows 10 was stuck in automatic repair loop after selected English in language list. My sister gave me her laptop for me to fix issue.

I noticed there are 2 Windows 10s both Windows 10 Rollback and Windows 10 in Advanced Startup Options. I tried rollback to old Windows 10 version but it still failed to repaired, new Windows 10 version failed to repaired too. After that I googled for all suggestions to fixed issue, tried /fixboot /fixmbr, DISM commands and sfc /scannow all failed to fixed issue.

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-repair-Windows-10-recovery-loop-error-witho/

Next day I googled further and found above link that fixed the issue. After made backup of files then restarted PC and pressed on Windows 10 and it booted successful to logon screen. I logged in and noticed everything was intact so I ran Windows Update to downloaded updates but after restarted PC ended up stuck in Automatic Repair Loop again. I tried to fixed it 2 times but it didn't worked so I stopped Windows Update server and deleted Windows Updates files in windows distribution folder. Then after restarted PC, ran Windows Update to downloaded all updates again and restarted PC finally fixed all issues when it configured updates then logged in to downloaded August anniversary update to installed new Windows version. After that everything worked fine.