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PC is the one in the specs below.
So I woke up this morning, turn the PC on to see it's frozen on loading the OS. Normally the Keyboard and mouse are lit when its available and working. After restarting, it appears that it's possible to enter the UEFI BIOS and boot menu with no issue. Though the strange thing is that upon entering the BIOS, all settings are back to default. This includes the CPU overclock. During all freezes the keyboard & mouse LEDs turn off.
There are 2 SSDs each with a different OS. By default, it tries to load the first SSD which contains Windows 7. When I try booting to it from the boot menu, sometimes it freezes on the Windows logo and other times it gets past that and asks for a disc check. Upon which it then freezes.
The other SSD is Windows 10. Selecting the Windows Boot Manager from the boot menu normally boots into Win10. The first time I tried, it froze on the Windows logo similar to Windows 7. The times after that, it attempts to load the startup repair and that also freezes.
I do recall that both versions of Windows did have updates this week. But they installed earlier on in the week with no issues.
I've not tried much else at this time, no opportunity since I've got to go to work in a bit. But after I get back I'll give things like safe mode and unplugging everything a try.
I'm wondering if anyome else has encountered such an issue or if it sounds familoar to anyone. I feel it's highly unlikely it's a hard drive or OS issue, since there are 2 OS on seperate hard drives that seem to result in the same issue. I do have a spare GPU and CPU (compatible with Z97 socket mbs) to test a gew things out if need be. And there's the option of my brother's PC downstairs to help test parts (same chipset). I just hope it's not a hardware issue, since prices of these parts (and current day equivalents) have risen a lot since I bought them.
Any ideas as to what it is before I go mad trying out every idea under the sun?
So I woke up this morning, turn the PC on to see it's frozen on loading the OS. Normally the Keyboard and mouse are lit when its available and working. After restarting, it appears that it's possible to enter the UEFI BIOS and boot menu with no issue. Though the strange thing is that upon entering the BIOS, all settings are back to default. This includes the CPU overclock. During all freezes the keyboard & mouse LEDs turn off.
There are 2 SSDs each with a different OS. By default, it tries to load the first SSD which contains Windows 7. When I try booting to it from the boot menu, sometimes it freezes on the Windows logo and other times it gets past that and asks for a disc check. Upon which it then freezes.
The other SSD is Windows 10. Selecting the Windows Boot Manager from the boot menu normally boots into Win10. The first time I tried, it froze on the Windows logo similar to Windows 7. The times after that, it attempts to load the startup repair and that also freezes.
I do recall that both versions of Windows did have updates this week. But they installed earlier on in the week with no issues.
I've not tried much else at this time, no opportunity since I've got to go to work in a bit. But after I get back I'll give things like safe mode and unplugging everything a try.
I'm wondering if anyome else has encountered such an issue or if it sounds familoar to anyone. I feel it's highly unlikely it's a hard drive or OS issue, since there are 2 OS on seperate hard drives that seem to result in the same issue. I do have a spare GPU and CPU (compatible with Z97 socket mbs) to test a gew things out if need be. And there's the option of my brother's PC downstairs to help test parts (same chipset). I just hope it's not a hardware issue, since prices of these parts (and current day equivalents) have risen a lot since I bought them.
Any ideas as to what it is before I go mad trying out every idea under the sun?
