I've been running my PC for the last two years or so with no issues. Came home on Friday, and it was stuck in a "repair loop" with Windows 10 - i.e, it would get to the screen with the blue Windows logo and the spinning dots by "Starting Automatic Repair..." would freeze and never un-freeze.
After resetting the CMOS on the mobo, removing drives and testing individually, removing my graphics cards, testing each RAM stick individually, I'm guessing it's either my PSU or my mobo that's bad.
What's odd is that I can't even install a new Windows OS. Trying to boot from a CD or USB leads to roughly the same issue - once it gets to either the spinning dots (Windows 10) or the screen with the colored dots that form the Windows logo (Windows 7), the operation will freeze and never un-freeze. I can boot from a Windows 7 CD in safe mode, but it can't complete the installation from safe mode - and when it restarts to finish installing, lo and behold it freezes again at the same screen.
My conclusion was that my mobo is the root of the issue here, but has anyone else seen a case like this?
After resetting the CMOS on the mobo, removing drives and testing individually, removing my graphics cards, testing each RAM stick individually, I'm guessing it's either my PSU or my mobo that's bad.
What's odd is that I can't even install a new Windows OS. Trying to boot from a CD or USB leads to roughly the same issue - once it gets to either the spinning dots (Windows 10) or the screen with the colored dots that form the Windows logo (Windows 7), the operation will freeze and never un-freeze. I can boot from a Windows 7 CD in safe mode, but it can't complete the installation from safe mode - and when it restarts to finish installing, lo and behold it freezes again at the same screen.
My conclusion was that my mobo is the root of the issue here, but has anyone else seen a case like this?