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Sometimes computer enters boot loop, other times I see black screen
Hello,
Recently, I think it was January, my computer started facing issues while booting. I could not determine the cause of the issue, but I have found a workaround that "fixes" it temporarily (once). Once I press the power button on my computer there are generally several cases of stuff that can happen:
1. Computer enters bootloop. Restart button does not work. The bootloop looks like this (there are two distinct boot failures):
- Computer turns on, there is no video output, stays for 12~ seconds, turns off
- Computer turns on, keyboard flashes, Gigabyte logo appears, black screen with mouse pointer appears, turns off
- Go to 1. This process repeats endlessly.
2. Computer turns on, but there is no video output, stays on until turned off by long pressing "on" button. Restart button does not work.
3. Computer turns on and windows successfully boots
The temporary fix that I found to work is to remove any number of RAM sticks. I usually remove one and just stack them until I'm left with two, then I put all of them back (I have 4 sticks). Any stick can be removed for this fix to work. Once the computer is turned on, it will stay on, there are no BSODs, it works flawlessly as far as I can tell. I keep it on until I'm forced to apply windows updates. I have tested the RAM with memtest, they checked out.
The other things that I have tried were:
- turning off fast boot (it seemed to work at first, but I think I was just lucky. This setting is still off)
- updating windows (I think this started to happen after one of January's updates)
- in-place upgrade of windows (How to perform an In-place Upgrade with Windows 10 Step-by-Step Guide - Microsoft Community)
At first I thought this might be PSU related, but after I managed to find the "fix" I have crossed out this possibility. I now suspect this could related to Spectre/Meltdown fixes. But I have no idea how to test that. I could be wrong on both.
If anyone have any idea what else I could do to try and fix this please let me know. I'm not sure what type of information I should provide, so I'll just list my hardware right now:
Thanks to anyone willing to spend time with this issue.Code:Operating System: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (10.0, Build 16299) (16299.rs3_release.170928-1534) System Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. System Model: Z87-D3HP BIOS: F7 Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4670K CPU @ 3.40GHz (4 CPUs), ~3.4GHz Memory: 16384MB RAM Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770