I decided to buy a new graphics card for my computer since I diagnosed my computer and the graphics card was the problem in my computer, so I bought a graphics card and was ordered to ship. I decided to practice taking out my current graphics card and put it back in so I could see how to install a graphics card. I don't know all of the fundamentals to a computer and installing and uninstalling components. In hindsight this was a bad idea and now, I'm stuck at my computer saying "Preparing Automatic Repair". I do have Windows 10 so the logo is just there as well. I did drop one single small screw onto the motherboard form like 1 cm. away and if that has anything to do with it, idk.
Can't Start Computer, Stuck at Preparing Automatic Repair.
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minemarcius
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What are the cards Brands? if you have both Radeon and GTX drivers in one PC that might cause problems, one way I do when my drivers hang is I connect my CPU's GPU to the monitor and uninstall bad driver.
1LiquidPC
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The screw drop shouldn't have any affect on your problem. Are there any options on the "repair" screen? Do you happen to have the Windows 10 ISO on USB stick, or a bootable DVD if you have an optical drive? If so, you could use repair OS options on it? If not, have you tried rebooting again?
I don't have the USB or DVD, but isn't it possible to use a blank CD and make it into a DVD that can reboot? I have tried unplugging the computer but nothing is working, I only have the mouse, keyboard, power cable and HDMI plugged in. Sometimes it will stick at the Windows 10 screen, which is a black background and the light blue windows logo at the top, or it will be the same still picture but with "Preparing Startup Repair at the bottom. I am tempted to just leave it at this screen over night and see what a happens since one time, my computer was stuck at the black screen with the logo and after an hour it was actually working.
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Not sure what you mean about the CD/DVD boot. Do you want to try force booting to the optical drive? Also, I'm not sure if the long wait would help, but you mentioned it has in the past. Have you tried looking at the boot order in your BIOS? I'd make sure something didn't get out of whack for some reason from removing/reinstalling the GPU. Windows boot manager should be top of the list. Speaking of which, what was the exact procedure you did to try this practice run? Also, have you tried removing the motherboard CMOS battery just for a shot in the dark. Simply removing the GPU should really have no effect on Windows needing a repair though.
I don't know how to open bios since the keyboard seems to be non-responsive for example, while its booting up it says "Press F11 for whatever" and it does nothing when you press it. Plus I don't know how to open BIOS and what the keys are.
So i decided to leave computer at the Automatic Repair since after further research I learned that the process for the repair can take hours, but it as been 2 hours and it still says "Preparing Automatic Repair" and I was wondering if you know how long it takes usually before there is a loading bar.
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Sorry for the delay. If nothing happened in two hours, it wasn't going to. It really should have started within a few minutes under normal circumstances. I went offline after the last post. Any luck today? Were you able to check the BIOS settings?
I'm to the point where I don't want to turn off the computer again since the only way to turn it off is with turning the power switch off, and I have already done this a couple of times so I think doing it more is just damaging it. But then I want to restart the computer so I can try to get into BIOS once more by just spamming delete but I still think that won't work.
Edit: I actually was able to turn the computer off with the power button and now it is at the same screen but with no "Preparing Startup Repair" so just going to leave it like this for a few hours I guess.
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