- Dec 13, 2012
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Hi all.
Last night after work I was playing Counter Strike and my computer had a crash at the end of the game. This was very weird as it didn't happen often before, everything went unresponsive and I couldn't move the mouse or press CTRL + ALT + DEL so i turned the computer off with the power button and restarted it.
Windows 8 then booted into a "starting automatic repair" message and after about 20 seconds it takes me to a black screen with a cursor and nothing else pops up. I left it there for a while and it rebooted into a message saying "Diagnosing your PC" and then it reboots into a message saying something like "Scanning your hard drive for errors "This may take an hour to complete"
I let it run for about an hour, but it just kept looping, it'd display one message for about 5 mins, then go back to the black screen, tell me it's "diagnosing my PC" again, then go back to saying it's checking the hard drive for errors.
I thought something might be corrupted so I popped my windows 8 DVD into the computer and tried to click "Repair my computer", after clicking it everything disappears and I just get a cursor with nothing else and my DVD drive stops making a noise like it's not reading the disc anymore.
I tried to use the disc on my other windows 8 computer and it worked fine, displaying the recovery options like it should. So I thought it was my DVD drive playing up and I burned windows 8 onto a USB, that still didn't work and it kept coming up with the same problem (everything booted from the USB fine but when I tried to click "Repair your computer" nothing happened)
So I'm really at a loss here, my computer just keeps trying to diagnose itself to no avail, I can't open any recovery options from a CD or a USB, I've tried reflashing the BIOS to no effect, I've also tried to boot into safe mode and I'm unable to get to the screen where it asks me if I want to boot into safe mode or not because it just keeps looping the "Starting automatic repair" message as soon as POST finishes.
My system specs are as follows:
CPU: i7 5960x
Motherboard: ASUS X99 Pro
RAM: 16GB Kingston DDR4 2400mhz
GPU: Nvidia GTX 980
SSD: Sandisk extreme ssd 240GB (OS)
HDD: 2TB Seagate
Please, I'm at my wits end, I don't know what to do with this computer anymore. I need it for my video editing work so it needs to be back up and running ASAP and yet everything I try to do to recover it doesn't seem to work so I'm HOPING someone here can help me out.
Thanks.
Last night after work I was playing Counter Strike and my computer had a crash at the end of the game. This was very weird as it didn't happen often before, everything went unresponsive and I couldn't move the mouse or press CTRL + ALT + DEL so i turned the computer off with the power button and restarted it.
Windows 8 then booted into a "starting automatic repair" message and after about 20 seconds it takes me to a black screen with a cursor and nothing else pops up. I left it there for a while and it rebooted into a message saying "Diagnosing your PC" and then it reboots into a message saying something like "Scanning your hard drive for errors "This may take an hour to complete"
I let it run for about an hour, but it just kept looping, it'd display one message for about 5 mins, then go back to the black screen, tell me it's "diagnosing my PC" again, then go back to saying it's checking the hard drive for errors.
I thought something might be corrupted so I popped my windows 8 DVD into the computer and tried to click "Repair my computer", after clicking it everything disappears and I just get a cursor with nothing else and my DVD drive stops making a noise like it's not reading the disc anymore.
I tried to use the disc on my other windows 8 computer and it worked fine, displaying the recovery options like it should. So I thought it was my DVD drive playing up and I burned windows 8 onto a USB, that still didn't work and it kept coming up with the same problem (everything booted from the USB fine but when I tried to click "Repair your computer" nothing happened)
So I'm really at a loss here, my computer just keeps trying to diagnose itself to no avail, I can't open any recovery options from a CD or a USB, I've tried reflashing the BIOS to no effect, I've also tried to boot into safe mode and I'm unable to get to the screen where it asks me if I want to boot into safe mode or not because it just keeps looping the "Starting automatic repair" message as soon as POST finishes.
My system specs are as follows:
CPU: i7 5960x
Motherboard: ASUS X99 Pro
RAM: 16GB Kingston DDR4 2400mhz
GPU: Nvidia GTX 980
SSD: Sandisk extreme ssd 240GB (OS)
HDD: 2TB Seagate
Please, I'm at my wits end, I don't know what to do with this computer anymore. I need it for my video editing work so it needs to be back up and running ASAP and yet everything I try to do to recover it doesn't seem to work so I'm HOPING someone here can help me out.
Thanks.
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