I just hooked my old pc back up, it worked fine yesterday and I was watching Netflix on it. Then, when I shut it down im asssuming it started downloading all the updates that it hasn’t been getting. Now, when I boot it up, the display gets cut off as soon as the windows logo runs.
At first I thought it was my tv, but it allows me to go through the BIOS perfectly fine. It’s just when windows starts to load
Additionally, on my other tv i am replicating the same issue
So I know it’s a software within my OS causing this issue
Is there a way that I can boot windows using my older gpu driver? Im in the bios right now but I see no such option

So changing the monitors/TVs still exhibits the same issue, which is loss of video. But are you sure it's a loss of video or your PC is freezing during boot/startup?

Let's be clear here - getting into BIOS vs the OS/PC freezing during boot/startup are two different things. If you have a bad OS like Windows is corrupt, you can still get into BIOS.

Secondly, have you tried safe mode? Safe mode would run the OS/Windows on bare-bone/basic drivers.

This post was edited by Xet on Mar 8 2022 10:16am

does this PC have a dedicated GPU? if you don't know, send us a picture or just look to see if the area that the video cable plugs into is separated from the area with your USB ports.

when you say allows you to go through the BIOS, do you mean the part of booting where it shows you different screens before the windows logo, or do you mean you can interrupt boot with a key and actually browse around the BIOS's settings and what not?

you could try opening up boot options and making sure you try everything in the list at least once. that advice is vague as to not be confusing/allow for error, just run through the whole list to be safe.

I ended up getting passed this hurdle by spamming power on/power off as it was trying to boot and forcing windows into repair mode. Then, I forced it to revert to a previous save of my OS.
Now, the issue that I’m having is every time I shut down my pc, the next time it boots up it fails to load windows. It says it needs to be repaired, windows goes into repair mode, but then it says it has failed to repair, and that it will reboot and go into an endless loop.

I am able to force my way into windows by reverting to the previous save each time I boot, which of course means I’m unable to save or delete files as it will all be reverted. I’m not sure how to fix this or even diagnose this





Yeah I was able to go into bios, change boot settings, adjust fan curves, ect

My gpu in that pc is I think a gtx 970, but the gpu driver is (I think) for the most part solved. Now I’m dealing with something else entirely

make a bootable USB drive of macrium reflect free, and follow this: http://reflect.macrium.com/help/v5/rescue_cds/fix_boot_problems.htm

after that, if it fixes your issue, you should run a hardware diag on your drive, then run a check disk, then in a command prompt run this command: dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth
then after that finishes run sfc /scannow until it says it no longer can find corruption. this means if you run it once, and it says it found and fixed corruption you would run it again until it no longer says that

I’ll give this a shot, thanks
Have you heard of my issue? Is it common / something you are familiar with? Or is this an improvised solution?

np, we'll try more things if it doesn't work.

I used to work in IT so I have seen your symptoms a lot, it doesn't always point back to the same issue/source but there's definitely types of failures that have patterns to them.