Hi,
I’ve had my Skytech Archangle PC for 5 months. It came preinstalled with windows 10 and everything has been working perfectly until today. I woke up my computer, it froze on the log in screen, then I got the BSOD with an error message. I turned off my pc because i thought i could just restart it. Probably a bad idea. It might’ve affected it like a powersurge problem when Windows was trying to do something. Not sure.
Here’s what I’ve tried so far during this long and frustrating day with no changes:
When I turned it back on I got the “reboot and select proper boot device” black screen. I went into my UEFI menu by pushing F2 at restart. I have the ASRock menu if that helps. It’s only registering one boot option #1 called “AHCI SATAFIRM S11” which im guessing is my only SSD. I set it as that and tried again. Nothing. I chose “Load UEFI Defaults”. Nothing. I noticed many other people who had this problem had a “windows boot manager” option to select. I do not. I can’t even find a blank option, which some have said that is their windows boot manager. Still only have my AHCI option, or the option to disable it. I checked the SATA cord connections and tried plugging it into another SATA port. Nothing.
Then I created a Windows media tool on my usb hardrive. Plugged that in and I got the option to repair my computer or install Windows. When trying the “startup repair” option, it either says it cant repair or it gets stuck for hours on a spinning wheel and says “attempting repairs”. I’ve tried the command prompt and typing in the fixboot commands among others. Nothing. Some say “access denied” or “failed to execute”. Ive clicked “system restore” but there seems to be no windows os to choose from. Ive tried just straight up installing it again and it freezes every time.
It’s almost like windows just disappeared from my computer or my SSD died. If it died, i feel like that’s just crazy af because I’ve had it for 5 months. It’s also regestering in the boot menu. Im hoping not to do a clean install because I want to try and save files. I even tried the notepad.exe trick in the command prompt and there werent any files in any folders.
Any thoughts would be great. Taking it into a repair shop probably, but again I feel like thats just ridiculous for it being on the new side. Wondering if there are any other work arounds to see if I can get Windows to boot.
Thanks.