Computer Freezing on Boot After Installing Windows 11

Question

Good Morning.

I installed Windows 11 on an Asus ROG desktop one day last week. Since doing so, I've run into a problem. When I try to boot up from a powered off state, it freezes at the screen with the Republic of Gamers logo. I have waited for 10+ minutes and it doesn't load. I can then power off the desktop and turn it back on and it will boot fine. But after I do a shutdown again, it runs into the same problem. If I choose to restart my PC, it works fine.

Hoping someone has suggestions out there.

Thanks,

Justin

Answer 1

Hi,

Can you try disabling Fast Startup and see if it makes a difference:

https://www.elevenforum.com/t/turn-on-or-off-fa...

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Answer 2

You're welcome. Thanks for the follow-up.

Answer 3

That seems to have made a difference. Thank you.

Answer 4

You have to know what its freezing on if it even is. Since you can't see it, you may think its freezing. It also might be stopping at an error of some sort or whatever.

You can try turning off the logo from the BIOS and it might reveal something. I don't know enough about the Windows logs here if they show the previous failed boot or not but that might be something to look into.

Otherwise you can try stuff that affects shutdown and reboots such as Windows fast boot, updating the BIOS, replacing the hard drive, etc. But, I feel its better to try to find what's happening first instead of poking at it. However, someone else might think differently.