This problem happened recently when Windows 8.1 installed an update the other night, in the morning when I turn on my computer to grab my files for my college work it refuses to boot.
Well to be precise it booted the first time then went to the log-in screen and it took forever to register that I've already typed the password in. The cursor was stuck in the " I " for text for a while and finally when the keystrokes went in I was patient enough to wait until it finally logs in. Then it got stuck on the "Welcome..." screen with the dots spinning around, I waited about 10 minutes and finally gave up. I tried to restart the computer and what I got was the black screen with the windows 8.1 icon with the spinning dots. A few more resets and it launched Windows Automatic Repair and went into a black screen.
So I messed around with the system, checking whether or not something was accidentally unplugged or whether my RAM was broken and I found out that without my second hard drive plugged in I was able to boot just fine, normal SSD speed. So i've come to a conclusion that it is in fact my Hard drive that is causing this problem. I've searched through the forums and I've tried many solutions, the boot priority wasn't the problem. I thought that maybe the second hard drive was corrupted, it happened before and I just used 'chkdsk' on the drive and it was fine.
Also I can't seem to access safe mode, I'm using an ASUS M5A78L-M USB/3 Motherboard and pressing F8 just brings me to a Device Boot screen where I can choose between devices. I was hoping you guys can help me find a solution.
Here are my specs:
AMD FX 4350
ASUS M5A78L-M USB/3
8 GB of RAM (4 x 2GB)
GTX 480
Kingston 240 GB SSD
1 TB HDD
Edit: I should also mention that I'm using Windows 8.1 64-bit
Well to be precise it booted the first time then went to the log-in screen and it took forever to register that I've already typed the password in. The cursor was stuck in the " I " for text for a while and finally when the keystrokes went in I was patient enough to wait until it finally logs in. Then it got stuck on the "Welcome..." screen with the dots spinning around, I waited about 10 minutes and finally gave up. I tried to restart the computer and what I got was the black screen with the windows 8.1 icon with the spinning dots. A few more resets and it launched Windows Automatic Repair and went into a black screen.
So I messed around with the system, checking whether or not something was accidentally unplugged or whether my RAM was broken and I found out that without my second hard drive plugged in I was able to boot just fine, normal SSD speed. So i've come to a conclusion that it is in fact my Hard drive that is causing this problem. I've searched through the forums and I've tried many solutions, the boot priority wasn't the problem. I thought that maybe the second hard drive was corrupted, it happened before and I just used 'chkdsk' on the drive and it was fine.
Also I can't seem to access safe mode, I'm using an ASUS M5A78L-M USB/3 Motherboard and pressing F8 just brings me to a Device Boot screen where I can choose between devices. I was hoping you guys can help me find a solution.
Here are my specs:
AMD FX 4350
ASUS M5A78L-M USB/3
8 GB of RAM (4 x 2GB)
GTX 480
Kingston 240 GB SSD
1 TB HDD
Edit: I should also mention that I'm using Windows 8.1 64-bit
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