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Windows 10 boot intermittently freezing on Logo Screen
I have Windows 10 on three computers. Two work fine. The third has been giving me boot problems for as long as I have had it upgraded from Windows 8 (which worked perfectly).
On around 50% of boots it will simply freeze at the Windows logo screen with no spinning dots. I have to do a hard reset to get it to restart. Upon restart it may or may not boot into Windows. Sometimes, it just freezes again in the same way. After another reset, it will go into Automatic Repair mode. Usually once it gets there, I can just click to skip to load Windows and it will then boot fine (ie. No repair actually needed).
Things I have tried:
- Updated BIOS
- Changed all SATA cables (SSDs)
- Disabled "Fastboot" in Windows
- Disabled Fast boot in BIOS
- Reinstalled Windows 10 'without losing my files' from Automatic Repair
- Ran Sfc /scannow
- Ran bootrec /rebuildbcd (total identified windows installations: 0), bootrec /fixmbr, bootrec /fixboot
None of this has fixed the problem and I keep getting these random windows logo boot freezes.
This is a desktop computer with an Asus X99 PRO USB 3.1 motherboard, Intel i7 CPU, and GT730 video card.
Once it boots, it functions perfectly (I am posting from this desktop at this moment).
What could be the problem at this point? The only idea I have left is that if the reinstallation of Windows 10 was with faulty files, maybe I need to buy a Windows 10 disc and install from that. But then why would it boot sometimes and not others?
Any ideas appreciated. As you can see, I've been trying everything I can think of. I'd be grateful for some fresh perspective.