I had the SSD in SATA0, an unused cable in SATA1 and the storage HDD in SATA2. What I then went and did was to plus the SATA cables into the MOBO correctly. ![]() The 1tb drive sounded normal, and I even updated the BIOS (which, admittedly, was quite out of date). Changing the SATA controller settings only made my hard drives unrecognised so I can only figure it was the correct setting. I was exploring the BIOS settings but nothing seemed to help. I don't want to speak too soon, but it seems as though I may have fixed it. GPU fans are also quite clear so I think that should be ok. If it is an old PC have you used an air brush to clean inside and especially checked the CPU cooling fins are clear of dust?It's pretty clean overall, PSU is new now, as is the CPU cooler. I have a few other things to try when I get home after some googling such as checking safe boot is turned off and testing the boot usb on the laptop itself, among other things, but wondering if anyone has any suggestions. It's formatted correctly as FAT32 and chose specifically for 64 bit Windows in English with the creation tool so think I've got that bit right. I've since created a recovery usb on my laptop with the Windows creation tool to attempt to reformat my PC but when I boot from the USB it again hangs either at the bios screen with spinning dots or at the Windows screen as mention earlier - depending which USB device i boot from, since the one usb is shown twice firstly as the product name, and also as the product name followed by "partition 1". If I leave it loading long enough on the recovery screen it goes to a blue screen that says something like "Your computer has encountered an error and needs to restart. The one time it worked I was able to start normally and it worked fine. Occasionally after a few attempts it will start in recovery mode, but every time except one it has again hung while loading the recovery mode. ![]() It gets to the Windows splash screen with the stylised blue Windows and the spinning dots after BIOS and sits, for hours even. Now all of a sudden, it will not start at all. That seemed to fix it and I was able to use my PC twice without issue. I took a gamble and replaced the PSU because it was by far the oldest part in my build. It had been out of action for a while with an intermittent issue where it would restart out of the blue. Little write up here but will try to be succinct.Ĭurious issue that just started up with my Win10 PC.
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