Ultragravy
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Hi all - I've recently bought a new Windows 11 PC and have a weirdly intermittent boot problem.
(For reference it has an MSI Z690 FORCE Wifi motherboard and an i7 12900k processor, running Windows 11 64bit, currently 21H2.)
Approximately once or twice a week, the PC will not boot first time (I should note that I shut it down nightly and boot it up fresh each day, I don't use sleep/hibernate). It starts to boot up normally, the monitor comes on and displays the motherboard logo, keyboard and mouse lights turn on, then turn off then back on again as normal when it gets to the point where you get the spinning circle of white dots, just before windows pops up. This is when I would then expect the Windows login screen to pop up.
However, the spinning circle remains spinning, but the mouse and keyboard turn off yet again and it goes no further, just infinite spinning with USB devices not working.
However - every time this has happened so far, powering off the PC and powering it on again makes it then boot up absolutely fine, and the PC will then run for multiple days with no issues, everything working super smoothly as soon as it hits windows.
No hardware has changed at any point, it seems to be completely random. Sometimes the PC will boot up every day with no issue, sometimes it will be two days in a row that I need to power it off and on again for the bootup to work. I disabled Windows 11 Fast Boot as this seemed to be a logical cause but this hasnt fixed it.
Whilst this is all hardly a major inconvenience, something is clearly wrong and would like to understand why my PC occasionally fails booting. However its been almost impossible to work out what causes it as I cannot replicate the problem to know if doing something fixes it, and when the problem occurs all it takes is a power off/on to fix.
What exactly does it mean when the PC hangs on the spinning white circles after all the USB devices have seemingly had their drivers loaded fine, and how can i see any logs or similar to look into things? I've checked windows event logs but nothing is posted in windows until it boots up successfully. The only thing I can find in the event viewer is a single information posting stating that Windows didnt start up or shut down properly last time (not surprising as it was powered off).
Any ideas what might be causing this?
Do I need to be concerned that a hardware piece is failing or is this likely just some windows driver issue? Is the boot getting to the point where it even looks at windows drivers or is this more a bios issue? Many thanks for any help or advice.
(For reference it has an MSI Z690 FORCE Wifi motherboard and an i7 12900k processor, running Windows 11 64bit, currently 21H2.)
Approximately once or twice a week, the PC will not boot first time (I should note that I shut it down nightly and boot it up fresh each day, I don't use sleep/hibernate). It starts to boot up normally, the monitor comes on and displays the motherboard logo, keyboard and mouse lights turn on, then turn off then back on again as normal when it gets to the point where you get the spinning circle of white dots, just before windows pops up. This is when I would then expect the Windows login screen to pop up.
However, the spinning circle remains spinning, but the mouse and keyboard turn off yet again and it goes no further, just infinite spinning with USB devices not working.
However - every time this has happened so far, powering off the PC and powering it on again makes it then boot up absolutely fine, and the PC will then run for multiple days with no issues, everything working super smoothly as soon as it hits windows.
No hardware has changed at any point, it seems to be completely random. Sometimes the PC will boot up every day with no issue, sometimes it will be two days in a row that I need to power it off and on again for the bootup to work. I disabled Windows 11 Fast Boot as this seemed to be a logical cause but this hasnt fixed it.
Whilst this is all hardly a major inconvenience, something is clearly wrong and would like to understand why my PC occasionally fails booting. However its been almost impossible to work out what causes it as I cannot replicate the problem to know if doing something fixes it, and when the problem occurs all it takes is a power off/on to fix.
What exactly does it mean when the PC hangs on the spinning white circles after all the USB devices have seemingly had their drivers loaded fine, and how can i see any logs or similar to look into things? I've checked windows event logs but nothing is posted in windows until it boots up successfully. The only thing I can find in the event viewer is a single information posting stating that Windows didnt start up or shut down properly last time (not surprising as it was powered off).
Any ideas what might be causing this?
Do I need to be concerned that a hardware piece is failing or is this likely just some windows driver issue? Is the boot getting to the point where it even looks at windows drivers or is this more a bios issue? Many thanks for any help or advice.
- Windows Build/Version
- 21H2
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