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I had this problem for almost a year now.
First, whenever I want to boot my pc i always need to clear cmos and reseat my memory. (i just leave the cmos slot open because it gets annoying everytime and its not mandatory anyways) therefore i cant even change the bios settings. If these procedures are not done and started up as a normal computer would, the monitors would just stay black and no signal, and the pc just keeps spinning forever.
Even when restarting, I always check if a program wants you to restart because i'm risking my pc to be harmed to restart in a way by manually holding down the power button.
I've tried fixing the EFI partition (since it was actually kinda corrupted) and even buying a brand new power supply, but those were different problems.
This computer is frequently new, I have cleaned it multiple times and reseated every component imaginable and still does not work.
Every day it slowly gets more annoying and annoying and soon just becomes a routine risking my pc to be harmed just from starting up.
Please, ANY suggestion I would test, this is my main machine and i am not risking losing my data, my pc that i have spent money on in mere seconds just from starting up the machine.
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HI, I am Dave, I will help you with this.
it seems it is your BIOS, rather than the Windows installation that is causing the problems, have you checked the support page for your PC or motherboard to see if there is any BIOS update(s) that are available and may not already be installed.
Hello, I'm sorry for the late response. I just updated the BIOS and you were right, the pc managed to reset this time without staying idle! Now I can safely do windows updates now! Thank you SO much for your assistance, you're a life savior man.
It is possible there is a hardware fault, but that can be very hard to diagnose and find, really only a PC repair shop can do that for you.
Yes, the problem occurred way before I updated the BIOS. Since the PC cannot restart, the updated version could also be corrupted. I'll try to use a usb instead from the OS directly next time to reinstall the BIOS. As an additional question: is it possible that it could be a hardware problem? if so, what could be the culprit?
