I installed Windows 10 on my desktop, along with my laptop. My laptop is still running it fine, but my desktop has pretty much fallen apart. Windows 10 ran fine on it, but on Wednesday, I put it into sleep mode to make sure the lockscreen would take my PIN. However, when I hit the spacebar on my keyboard, the computer didn't wake up. Strangely, my keyboard's backlight and NUMLOCK LED turned on, but the computer did nothing. I tried hitting the power and reset buttons; again, nothing. I thought it was just a bug, so I flipped the switch on my PSU's back, and turned the computer back on. It booted up fine.
Today, I put the computer in sleep for about an hour and a half, and again it wouldn't wake. I flipped the PSU's switch again, and when it booted up, I was greeted with a screen telling me my motherboard's BIOS was corrupted. Luckily, my motherboard had dual BIOS, so it was quickly restored.
Before I continue, I want to give a little backstory about my computer. Originally, it ran Windows 7. One day, Amazon had a sale on some Kingston SSDs, so I decided to buy one. I used the cloning software to copy Windows 7 from my 1TB WD HDD onto my new SSD. However, when I was finished, I didn't delete the Windows OS from my HDD.
So, after my BIOS restored, the computer restarted, and instead of booting into Windows 10, it began to boot into Windows 7, so I'm pretty sure that my SSD was corrupted, and my motherboard saw Windows 7 on my HDD as the only bootable device. When Windows 7 finished going through its splash screen with the Windows flag, it went through a three step file validation, where it said it found no files were corrupted, but when it went to step two, it started saying something about deleting. New lines of text kept coming from the bottom, stating that the system was deleting files. I don't know what that meant, whether it was deleting system files or not, but I'm sure that it wasn't good.
After that finished, the computer restarted, but it just booted into the file checking routine again. It went through all of this again, and restarted. It didn't go through the file checker again, and just stopped at a black screen. I restarted the computer, and went into the boot selection menu. I selected the SSD, and miraculously, Windows 10 booted up. It got to the login screen. I put in my PIN, and it told me that the PIN was incorrect. I put it in again, same result. I tried to login with my Microsoft account, and once again, I got the same result.
That's where my story ends. If anyone has any suggestion into what I should do, please, please reply to this. I was extremely excited for Windows 10, but as you can imagine, that excitement is pretty much over now. I can install Windows 7 again if I need to, but I really don't want to have to go through the whole fiasco of installing Windows, installing my drivers, installing about fifty updates, and then reinstalling 10.
I didn't see any better fitting category to file this under, so I just filed it under Other settings (sorry, I'm new to this forum)
In case my PC's specs make any difference in solving the problem:
CPU: AMD FX-4100 Quad-3.6GHz
8GB of RAM
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 (EVGA brand)
Motherboard: GIGABYTE 970A-D3
Boot Drive: 120GB SSD (SATA)
2nd Drive: 1TB Platter Drive
Thank you for reading my post. Any help is greatly appreciated.
UPDATE: I decided to try signing in again, and it worked. I booted into the desktop, and there were no errors. One weird thing I noticed was that my headset had a new name containing lots of Unicode, and my clock was set two hours ahead. Other than that, everything is working. However, I would still like to know if there's a way to validate the system files to make sure that everything is okay. If anyone know, please respond. Once again, thanks.
