MSI Z97 Gaming 5 Bootloop

TheChadWick

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May 7, 2016
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I left my pc on last night, and when I went to play today, it was stuck in a bootloop. The MSI logo comes up it says preparing repair, the screen will flash, the logo will come back up and it'll say automatic repair or something similar. Then it'll restart and start all over. I've flashed the CMOS, and updated the bios, neither will help. I haven't changed anything, last night I played a game, then exited it, hit sleep and now its doing this 6 hours later. The only thing I've seen that I haven't tried is replacing the battery, which I'll try later. i was trying to hold off on that because its right behind my second GPU and its water cooled, so I don't have a bunch of movement with the gpu's.
 
Solution
Keep hitting delete as it soon as it boots to enter your BIOS to set core numbers, but if you arent familiar with BIOS then perhaps you should get an expert to take a look. If you can get it boot on one core you can backup any data that you need to first at least.

TheChadWick

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May 7, 2016
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How do I do that? I just turned it on, when the Msi dragon comes on, it'll pop up preparing automatic repair, the the screen will flash to a blue screen with a grey bordered window that looks like the command prompt, but it'll just be blue, then it'll go back to the MSI screen and say diagnosing and it'll restart and the process will start over.
 
Keep hitting delete as it soon as it boots to enter your BIOS to set core numbers, but if you arent familiar with BIOS then perhaps you should get an expert to take a look. If you can get it boot on one core you can backup any data that you need to first at least.
 
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