My PC freezes during boot, even before I can enter BIOS setup. I have an idea what might have gone wrong, but no clue how to fix this.
Specs that I know right now: Gigabyte S-series motherboard, standard (probably 7200rpm) 500GB HDD. Right now, this is all the info I have to work with. I can update this info once I can take a look at the actual hardware.
My PC was a dual boot Windows 7 & Linux (I think Ubuntu, not relevant I think). I decided to do a clean install of Windows 10 and wipe the whole thing in the process. I used a USB-flash drive with the correct Windows installer and booted from that.
Now, where I think it went wrong, because I wanted a full clean install I formatted ALL the drives. Including the 100MB partitions reserved for system (???, can't check the actual names) thinking that 'system' would be linked to the OS and therefore should be wiped too. When the installation progressed I turned off the monitor and let it do it's thing.
A few hours later the PC was stuck somewhere in the booting process. Trying to initialize/find AHCI devices. It doesn't boot further anymore. This particular part of the booting sequence is between the motherboard splash image and the actual BIOS setup. So hitting DEL to get into BIOS doesn't even work anymore. I have tried without the USB-flash inserted too. No change.
Attached two screenshots, one of the motherboard splash, might show relevant info on the hardware version. And one of the frozen screen.
http://imgur.com/a/3yoUf
Hopefully somebody here can help me. Thanks in advance!
Specs that I know right now: Gigabyte S-series motherboard, standard (probably 7200rpm) 500GB HDD. Right now, this is all the info I have to work with. I can update this info once I can take a look at the actual hardware.
My PC was a dual boot Windows 7 & Linux (I think Ubuntu, not relevant I think). I decided to do a clean install of Windows 10 and wipe the whole thing in the process. I used a USB-flash drive with the correct Windows installer and booted from that.
Now, where I think it went wrong, because I wanted a full clean install I formatted ALL the drives. Including the 100MB partitions reserved for system (???, can't check the actual names) thinking that 'system' would be linked to the OS and therefore should be wiped too. When the installation progressed I turned off the monitor and let it do it's thing.
A few hours later the PC was stuck somewhere in the booting process. Trying to initialize/find AHCI devices. It doesn't boot further anymore. This particular part of the booting sequence is between the motherboard splash image and the actual BIOS setup. So hitting DEL to get into BIOS doesn't even work anymore. I have tried without the USB-flash inserted too. No change.
Attached two screenshots, one of the motherboard splash, might show relevant info on the hardware version. And one of the frozen screen.
http://imgur.com/a/3yoUf
Hopefully somebody here can help me. Thanks in advance!
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