Greetings all, hope you are having a great week so far.
I am posting here because google is of no help and confuses me even more.
I've been running windows 11 since the beginning of the year and so far I didn't have any issues, but some time in february windows refused to load until I switched an internal hard drive to another Sata port, after that all good. But recently the booting process is messed up for no reason again. Last week I was just powering on my pc as usual before I got hit with the " Looks like windows didn't load correctly" screen that contained options such as system recovery, reset and so on. I was able to boot successfully after I unplugged all usb devices, so I thought it was just a weird temporary issue, whatever right? Well it turns out now every time I boot up I get past the motherboard splash screen and get stuck at the spinning dots, then the PC just restarts itself and it works. Sometimes it does get stuck though and I have to restart it multiple times before it boots up correctly.
I recently purchased an external 2TB ssd and before I switched ports it used to freeze mid-transfer and crash my whole system. Something in my motherboard (MSI MPG x570) clearly is fussy about usb devices (hence the title of this thread) and I have a lot of USB devices, most of them connected via a TP link usb hub. I tried disconnecting all usb devices but it still gets stuck at boot, but as I've said, after one more restart it's usually fine. The external SSD works just fine when plugged into a backup w10 laptop I have, but when transferring large files (8gb+) it more often than not freezes and the whole system becomes unresponsive as a result.
I doubt it's just a minor inconvenience though, I am afraid this is just a matter of time until W11 bricks itself and I cannot access my files.
I tried resetting the bios, updating it to the latest version since there have been so far issues reported with zen 3 cpus and usb, but nothing seems to work. Also ran multiple bad sectors checks on the external ssd and no issues found, especially since I've tried it with another laptop and it worked fine there.
Sorry if it's a long read but tl;dr: Got a new external SSD, stuck at boot screen but after restart it works (somehow). Anyone having similar issues? Thanks!
I am posting here because google is of no help and confuses me even more.
I've been running windows 11 since the beginning of the year and so far I didn't have any issues, but some time in february windows refused to load until I switched an internal hard drive to another Sata port, after that all good. But recently the booting process is messed up for no reason again. Last week I was just powering on my pc as usual before I got hit with the " Looks like windows didn't load correctly" screen that contained options such as system recovery, reset and so on. I was able to boot successfully after I unplugged all usb devices, so I thought it was just a weird temporary issue, whatever right? Well it turns out now every time I boot up I get past the motherboard splash screen and get stuck at the spinning dots, then the PC just restarts itself and it works. Sometimes it does get stuck though and I have to restart it multiple times before it boots up correctly.
I recently purchased an external 2TB ssd and before I switched ports it used to freeze mid-transfer and crash my whole system. Something in my motherboard (MSI MPG x570) clearly is fussy about usb devices (hence the title of this thread) and I have a lot of USB devices, most of them connected via a TP link usb hub. I tried disconnecting all usb devices but it still gets stuck at boot, but as I've said, after one more restart it's usually fine. The external SSD works just fine when plugged into a backup w10 laptop I have, but when transferring large files (8gb+) it more often than not freezes and the whole system becomes unresponsive as a result.
I doubt it's just a minor inconvenience though, I am afraid this is just a matter of time until W11 bricks itself and I cannot access my files.
I tried resetting the bios, updating it to the latest version since there have been so far issues reported with zen 3 cpus and usb, but nothing seems to work. Also ran multiple bad sectors checks on the external ssd and no issues found, especially since I've tried it with another laptop and it worked fine there.
Sorry if it's a long read but tl;dr: Got a new external SSD, stuck at boot screen but after restart it works (somehow). Anyone having similar issues? Thanks!
- Windows Build/Version
- 21H2
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My Computer
System One
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- OS
- W11
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- CPU
- R5 5600x
- Motherboard
- MSI MPG x570 GAMING PLUS
- Memory
- 2x 8GB DDR4 @3200mhz
- Graphics Card(s)
- MSI RX 480
- Sound Card
- Babyface ProFS
- Monitor(s) Displays
- LG 27" IPS
- Screen Resolution
- FullHD
- Hard Drives
- 1 x Seagate 2TB HDD @ 7200RPM
1 x ADATA SP550 120gb SSD
1 x Samsung 970 EVO nvme 500GB (OS)
1 x Seagate External HDD 2TB
1 x External ADATA SP760 2TB SSD
- PSU
- Seasonic Focus PX650