Honestly, my computer has a problem at the moment. It starts up, but the opening screen for windows doesn't show up. No idea why, but I suspect my cat helped. I really don't know how to fix it from bios, so gaming will have to wait for the moment.
Shit huh...do you run your windows off an HDD or an SSD? I’ve had two OS-containing hard disks fail on me over the years and the problems caused sound a little similar to yours, especially the early stages of a failing HDD
Honestly, my computer has a problem at the moment. It starts up, but the opening screen for windows doesn't show up. No idea why, but I suspect my cat helped. I really don't know how to fix it from bios, so gaming will have to wait for the moment.
Shit huh...do you run your windows off an HDD or an SSD? I’ve had two OS-containing hard disks fail on me over the years and the problems caused sound a little similar to yours, especially the early stages of a failing HDD
SSD, but that does give me a clue what is happening.
Just a shot in the dark but:
Have you checked your bios boot order, making sure your OS drive is drive 0 (or 1 if 0 isn’t shown)?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wLTusKkElcg
It’s possible your boot order somehow got messed up, which would explain the successful powering on but no real booting
This might be the answer. I will check it out later.