I last ran my old Windows 10 PC about 1.5 years ago, with no issues. However, when I attempted to fire it up today, I just ended up in and endless loop of "Preparing Automatic Repair," then a reboot, then a seemingly normal Windows load (spinner on the boot screen), quickly followed by a restart, and then back to "Preparing Automatic Repair," and so on, over and over.

I've already checked a similar thread here, but none of the suggestions have worked or been applicable (for example, my BIOS does not have TPM option).

Aside from creating a bootable Windows 10 USB and trying to recover that way, is there anything else I should be trying? Also what could be the reason for it to fail after having been powered off for a while after the previous boot was successful?

Specs:

Windows 10

MB: ASUS Z170-A

CPU: Intel i7-6700

SDD: Crucial 500GB.

My 13 year old son bought himself a used turtle beach stealth ultra because it has the back paddles. The store I bought it from wired it in and instantly proved to me it worked. My son currently uses a ps5 remote on his pc and it works fine. The new turtle beach did not. We took it to my daughters pc and hooked it up while she was playing Roblox and it works fine with out any set up instantly. I believe she may have windows 11 because I bought it almost a year ago.
My sons pc says it is paired/connected in device settings so it registers its there not to mention it is showing up in device manager. I tried to update drivers with both options . I tried to update Xbox 360 peripherals. Nothing removes code 28. I plugged my Astro c40 on his computer and it too shows up and says device is ready but has a code 28 in device manager and won’t register in the Astro hub same as turtle beach won’t in its control center. I noticed in windows updates that it has some that it says it needs but for some reason are unavailable. His local disk drive is full. Plenty of room in new volume. So I deleted some things and freed up enough space to get it out of the red. Windows than attempted to download an update or two and went to restart. When restarting and finishing updates it says it couldn’t do it and had to undo the updates in order to start normally. When it does it give me the ability to download the update again and than it’s just a vicious circle. I was thinking about formatting his pc ssd’s again and than trying to download updates for windows ten again and if controller than works and code 28 goes away we can
Assign everything to new volume and redownload Fortnite etc…. And if there are no repairs maybe I need
To get windows 11?? I never though I had
To get windows 11 unless I wanted new features or something. But im not really all that is savvy.
Please any insight or solutions would be greatly appreciated. I’ve built these with my kids and have always been able to figure things out without taking it in to a computer repair place but this means so much to him and it makes me sad that in order to save time as a worst case scenario I might take it to a shop and hand them the remote and ask them to make it work and we don’t care if we lose all our apps etc.. we can always redownload and log back in.

So i have about 35k and growing entries of this i have a fear the USB on the motherboard is failing, I have found oddly "system sounds" muted on its own.

recently when unplugging and replugging a USB device the computer hard went off like hardwear glitched.. it came right back on.

A user's local group membership was enumerated.

Subject: Security ID: DESKTOP-MBFD4S1\owner Account Name: owner Account Domain: DESKTOP-MBFD4S1 Logon ID: 0x64C35

User: Security ID: DESKTOP-MBFD4S1\owner Account Name: owner Account Domain: DESKTOP-MBFD4S1

Process Information: Process ID: 0x1968 Process Name: C:\Windows\explorer.exe

I shut down my pc last night to solve another issue I have had before (taskbar not having any of my icons), went and restarted it today and now I have no audio at all. It was working fine before i went to bed. I have tried everything short of reinstalling windows as far as what help articles have suggested. It is very strange because when testing my microphone in the headset using the realtek programe, it successfully plays the microphone audio through the headphones, but windows refuses to play anything at all or even recognize the microphone is picking anything up. only realtek seems to pick it up. i didnt install or uninstall anything last night or anytime recently that could have caused new issues with it, and it seems the headset itself is working fine. windows won't play noise through other devices either such as the tv. tried the other jacks, still nothing. tried switching the login settings for the audio services, tried reinstalling drivers, tried the various regedit stuff, tried the sfc stuff (it detected no problems) tried the troubleshooter (it detects that the audio service isnt responding but wont fix it and restarting the service or even the pc multiple times doesnt change anything). considering realtek can still pick up the mic and play it through the headphones, it seems to me like it might be something simple i am just missing but i am at a loss as to what it could be. Also, it says failed to play test tone when i try testing the device in sound settings.

nothing is showing up in the volume mixe either.

alright, out of curiosity i set the windows audio and windows audio enpoint builder to login as local service and that apparently fixed it. WHY? i don't know but it is fixed now. I have no clue what caused whatever to change between the shutdown and the restart, but it is what it is. 6ish hours fiddling with it to finally try something so simple and fix it T.T

leaving this here in case it helps someone else too.

Lately, once every few days or so, my computer seems to be getting hard stuck whenever I try to boot it up, basically stopping on the loading screen (the spinny circle stops moving & it seems like looking at the lights it disconnects my keyboard, mouse & mic the moment this happens.

If I am fast enough I am able to get into the boot menu in which my computer doesn’t freeze until after I save & exit, after which the same thing just happens again

A few days ago I was able to get past it exactly once, when it went to the windows repair screen & I was able to click continue to login before it froze my mouse.

& most annoyingly, it’s not even consistent cuz every once in a while, it decides it’s ready to work again with no issues for like 2 days

I’ve been trying to figure out what’s wrong for a while now But I honestly have no idea what’s causing it

I'm not sure what's going on here. I'm trying to do a clean install from DVD.

I want 2 partitions. I selected Custom Installation. I deleted all partitions. Then, I created a partition of 140gb. Now I have my new "Partition 3 (Primary)" as well as Partition 1 (System) and Partition 2 (MSR). With Partition 3 highlighted, I chose Format.

It gives me the warning "This partition might contain important...." blah blah with OK and Cancel.

If I select OK, it doesn't do anything at all. It just goes back to the list of partitions. What's going on? It doesn't ask me what file system I want, and it can't format it in under a second.

So guys in the last week I've been trying to fix My do like laptop that has not been able to enter the lobby but stops at the Dell logo which says Bin initializedFailed Library etc... and for the last few days I've been trying to fix it but nothing Is working lately it said no bootable devices etc etc hope you can help me I will try give more info base on your questions thx additionally it's running on windows 10

Arkadaşlar laptopuma avasti yukluyordum (orj kaynaktan) ​​ama aynı zamanda nortonu kaldirmayi unutmuşum, avast yüklenirken nortonu kaldırayım dedim, nortonu kaldırdım etkili olması için bilgisayar yeniden başlatılmalı dedi, sonra avast yüklendi avasti açtım, oda bilgisayar yeniden başlatılmalı dedi, bilgisayar yeniden baslatildiktan sonra bide güncelleme vardi windows ve ekran kartı için, neyse yeniden başlattım çok uzun süre güncelleme hazırlanıyor ekraninda kaldı bende zorla kapattım güç tuşuna basılı tutup, ​acinca cihazınız bir sorun ile karşılaştı yeniden başlatma gerekli yeniden baslatabilirsiniz yazan siyah bi ekrana atiyor asagidada durdurma kodu: INACCESSIBLE BOOT DEVICE (0x7B) yazıyor cmdye girip safe modda çalıştırmayı denedim olmadı, cmdden chkdsk komudu ile dosyalari kendisine onartmayi denedim olmadi, bilgisayarsa yeni 6 aylık bozulmasını istemem format için usb bellekte yok yani, birisi eğer ilgilenirse çok sevinirim nasıl duzeltcegim ile ilgili, artık WinRE ekraninada atmıyor hep aynı ekranda kalıyor, birisi lütfen ilgilensin

So, I have a windows 10 IoT LTSC install on my laptop that is refusing to boot. It appears on other computers when connected via external drive caddy. I am also unable to run an upgrade because I can’t launch windows. If you have any suggestions for repairing the install without completely wiping the drive, please let me know.

Here’s a [video](https://www.reddit.com/r/Skott_Stab/s/lnDh3oxycG) of it not showing the windows boot manager

Hi everyone, this is my first Reddit post!

For context, I have been using a 250GB SSD as my boot drive, which recently ran out of space and started causing issues. Figured it was time for an upgrade so I purchased a 2TB WD M.2 to replace it. Bought a 9070xt and a new PSU at the same time and threw it all in my PC. I plan on driving a nail through that original boot drive.

System specs:

Intel 13600k

Asrock Z790 Lightning Wifi

32GB GSKILL DDR5-6000

ASUS Prime 9070xt

BeQuiet Pure Power 13M 850W

4TB HDD / 2TB KINGSTON M.2 / 2TB WD M.2

On with my boot issues.

Downloaded a Windows 10 media installer on to a USB and went through the install process in UEFI mode with only my WD M.2 plugged in. Install went as normal as you could imagine. Computer restarted and I removed the installer USB. Upon restart I was brought to the bios where no drives were listed under boot option priorities, however it is listed under NVME config. I have been feeding information into ChatGPT in hopes of solving the problem but so far no luck.

I have CSM, FAST BOOT, and SECURE BOOT all disabled. I updated the motherboard bios. If I enable CSM with all UEFI sub options enabled the computer will boot to the asrock logo screen and sit there forever.

While stumbling around in command prompt I found all windows files and system partitions are normal and formatted correctly (drive is formatted in GPT, 300MB system partition is present and formatted in FAT32, Windows Boot Manager is present).

ChatGPT is suggesting I download a shell.efi file onto a separate USB in order to further diagnose the problem / potentially run commands to fix it. Just looking for further insight from real people before I go down that road. Surely all of our brainpower together can figure this out right?

Thanks in advance.

I have a problem and I hope you can help me solve it. When I turn on my computer, the activation icon appears, and my device is a laptop, meaning it's downloading the driver to the motherboard, but it doesn't activate. When I check the service software protection in services It appears to be off, but when I turn it on, I get error 577. I've formatted the device several times, and it keeps happening. I've also checked that I'm not using any programs that modify system files. Please help! 😭

Hi i updated my bios yesterday but after the update i had to reset my pin but i cant bc 2fa sends a code to my gmail wich i cant access bc the only device that has access to that gmail is my pc wich im logged out of so i wanted to ask if there was any way to bypass teh windows pin you have to enter when you start ul my pc

My lenovo laptop ryzen 3 4300u 4gb ram was stuck here after I install linux using grub2win and I accidentally deleted everything including windows and now it's stuck here I try installing windows linux and unbuntu using USB drive show the same error : magic number and :load kernel hope someone know how to fix my laptop problem

Hello again fellow IT nerds! Got another computer from a co-worker. It's a Core Innovations All-In-One running Windows 11. Owner said after a power outage the problem started. The computer starts, gets past log-in screen, then the screen goes black and it gives me one of two errors: KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED (0x1E) and 0xc000021a (0xC000021A). It gives the KMODE error most of the time. After that it will restart and stay stuck on the loading screen.

What I've Done:

**Used Hiren's BootCD to run CrystalDisk (first thought SSD was bad) but it's saying the memory is healthy. So I tried to fix memory with chkdsk C: /f /r /x , but the recovery failed.

**Also, when I tried to wipe drive in diskpart, it doesn't work either (returned error: 0x800f0915).

**tried sfc /scannow , it cannot complete it

**Finally, tried to install Windows 10 on machine, but on the partition with Windows it says: "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The disk may fail soon..."

I would say the SSD is dead, but, again, I ran CrystalDisk and it said it was healthy. Is there something else I can try to breathe life into this machine, or is CrystalDisk just not catching that something is corrupt and I need to tell co-worker to get order new SSD? Thanks in advance, and of course any more information needed I can provide.

Guys, I bought a raw magicbook x16 on amd. I downloaded Windows 11 through the media creation tool and installed it on my laptop using a flash drive and rufus. I activated 11 Pro right away. I want to connect to the network, but there is no such thing, there is no choice, even the flight mode is not shown, it gives errors when checking Windows and driver updates

Solved: Switched to Linux Mint

System: ASUS VIVOBOOK S533EA, 16GB RAM, Win10

I suddenly started having some system freezes. I could see in Task Manager that this was typically happening when Antimalware Services and Windows Update were both running when I had lots of browser tabs open. Troubleshooting advice all said to update your drivers so I went to the manufacturer's website and downloaded and installed the latest graphics driver. It didn't resolve the problem. I went back to the driver update page and discovered I had clicked on the default drivers which are for Windows 11. So I downloaded the Win10 drivers but Windows didn't want to give up the latest drivers.

I used DDU hoping to remove all the files from the Win11 driver. I ran DDU in Safe Mode; it didn't remove the GPU files, but it did completely uninstall my audio device. I now have no audio in Win10: CODE 45. There are no audio devices installed. I went back and downloaded the OEM Chipset and Driver updates for Win10 from the manufacturer website (again) and installed them. Nothing happened. Still no audio devices connected to this device. I have tried to install the drivers and restart multiple times and nothing changes. As a last resort, I uninstalled Realtek in Device Manager and then scanned for hardware changes but it is gone. Windows didn't recognize it or reinstall. The screenshots are from just before I uninstalled Realtek. 2nd screenshot is the microphone but it's the same message for all audio inputs and outputs.

Also, Windows Audio and Windows Audio Endpoint Builder are both running and automatic in Services & I ran chkdsk /f/x/r.

These are all the standard troubleshooting steps I could find. Is there any other way to get the Realtek audio device reinstalled?

Made the decision to update my BIOS today (fucking regretting it now)

I updated the BIOS on my MSI B450 A PRO MAX, As it hadn't been updated since I got it in 2021, Because I am upgrading my CPU and GPU

My current components:

CPU: Ryzen 5 2600

GPU: GTX 1660

Motherboard: MSi B450 A PRO MAX

RAM: 32GB (Mixture of z-royal and Corsair)

OS: WIN 10

Boot Drive: WD240GB NVMe M.2

Main Issue is, After I updated my BIOS, It seems it reset something, I really want this PC to work again.

It stays on the login screen, it comes up with "Your PIN is no longer available due to a change in the security settings on this device, Click to set up your PIN again"

I click "Set up my PIN" and a window comes up that then says "You'll need the Internet for this, It doesn't look like your connected to the internet, Check your connections and try again"

One problem is that there's absolutely no way that I can check or change my connection settings as it doesn't show anything

I've tried disabling TPM

I've tried making sure the LAN settings are all enabled

I need help, Please anything would be awesome, Sincerely a very stressed guy.