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[Codes 208]

Has anyone had experience with this? So basically the other day my pc (an Acer Predator, i7 cpu, AMD RX 580, 24gb of ddr4-2400 ram, 1tb hdd and a smaller ssd for the OS) crashed, more specifically I was running Vegas movie maker, YT downloader and a few other apps simultaneously for a couple days while editing because I was admittedly too lazy to turn off my pc (also doesn’t help it’s been super humid lately and I have no A/C)

and is now stuck with the auto-repair loop whenever it turns out (so basically everytime I turn it on it tries to do the auto-repair, fails then brings me to the blue screen that gives me the options of continue, troubleshoot or turn off pc. When I hit continue it loops through the auto-repair again.

When I go through troubleshoot it gives the basic options like resetting the pc (which I’ve tried but it keeps giving the “something went wrong” error) and I’ve even tried several DIR solutions to no avail. I’ve removed the newer ram (the system originally only had 8gb, I bought 2x 8gb sticks) and that didn’t solve it. I’ve bought a new HDD but it refused to take it as it needed the proper boot HDD.

I’m about ready to bring it in to microcenter for a fix, which I was told could be $200+ after services. But I wanted to see if anyone else has gone through this, any suggestions tht I can try before I lay down a hefty fix fee?

 

[tylrdiablos]

Can you boot into Safe Mode?

 

[Codes 208]

Can you boot into Safe Mode?

Nope, I’ve tried that too, or atleast I did through the troubleshoot method and that didn’t work.

Is there another way to boot into safe mode?

 

[longdi]

how did you do the DIR ? You managed to get into windows?

How about try install windows 10 on your new hdd? remove all existing drives except the new one, and do a fresh install to make sure it is not your hardware.

 

[tylrdiablos]

Power the machine down completely, press the power button and then spam the F8 key until a black screen with white text appears.
Use your arrow keys to choose "Boot into Safe Mode" and then a few mins for it to get into WIndows. If you can get here, it's probably software issues... rather than hardware.

 

[Codes 208]

Power the machine down completely, press the power button and then spam the F8 key until a black screen with white text appears.
Use your arrow keys to choose "Boot into Safe Mode" and then a few mins for it to get into WIndows. If you can get here, it's probably software issues... rather than hardware.

I’ll have to try this then, Acer is a bit weird with using F keys at launching

how did you do the DIR ? You managed to get into windows?

How about try install windows 10 on your new hdd? remove all existing drives except the new one, and do a fresh install to make sure it is not your hardware.

In the troubleshoot one of the options was using command prompts, I’ve done regback and a few others I found tutorials on.

 

[Virex]

Install Gentoo

 

[GHG]

When I go through troubleshoot it gives the basic options like resetting the pc (which I’ve tried but it keeps giving the “something went wrong” error) and I’ve even tried several DIR solutions to no avail. I’ve removed the newer ram (the system originally only had 8gb, I bought 2x 8gb sticks) and that didn’t solve it. I’ve bought a new HDD but it refused to take it as it needed the proper boot HDD.

When you say this did it refuse to turn on with the replacement hard drive or did it just fail to get past bios?

The latter is expected behaviour if so.

It sounds more like something in Windows has gone awry rather than a hardware issue of any kind.

 

[TheContact]

you try booting into last known good configuration? spam f8 at boot
otherwise, boot into recovery mode and troubleshoot using the cmd prompt
try an sfc /scannow. you can try using dism too but i'm not sure if that works in repair mode

 

[Codes 208]

When you say this did it refuse to turn on with the replacement hard drive or did it just fail to get past bios?

The latter is expected behaviour if so.

It sounds more like something in Windows has gone awry rather than a hardware issue of any kind.

The latter

something like this happened to my surface awhileback and I was told it was a faulty image file which MS fixed for me

you try booting into last known good configuration? spam f8 at boot
otherwise, boot into recovery mode and troubleshoot using the cmd prompt
try an sfc /scannow. you can try using dism too but i'm not sure if that works in repair mode

I’ll have to try this too, my grandpa’s pc went through this recently as well and we tried the scannow promt and it didn’t much but I haven’t tried it with my pc yet

 

[GHG]

The latter

Ok so what you need to do is use another PC/laptop to create a Windows 10 bootable USB:

Download Windows 10 Disc Image (ISO File)

Put the bootable USB in the computer turn it on then get into your bios (whatever key you need to use for your computer check online), change your boot order to be USB first, hard drive second, save and exit.

Once it restarts you should be in the windows USB. Use that first to try and repair your current windows install. If you can't repair successfully then do a clean install on that drive which will mean you'll lose all your data.

If all that fails the hard drive is probably fucked in which case put the new drive in and boot to USB again, this time go straight to install windows.

 

[Codes 208]

Ok so what you need to do is use another PC/laptop to create a Windows 10 bootable USB:

Download Windows 10 Disc Image (ISO File)

Put the bootable USB in the computer turn it on then get into your bios (whatever key you need to use for your computer check online), change your boot order to be USB first, hard drive second, save and exit.

Once it restarts you should be in the windows USB. Use that first to try and repair your current windows install. If you can't repair successfully then do a clean install on that drive which will mean you'll lose all your data.

If all that fails the hard drive is probably fucked in which case put the new drive in and boot to USB again, this time go straight to install windows.

Would this work by attaching the HDD to my surface via a usb HDD dock reader?

 

[GHG]

Would this work by attaching the HDD to my surface via a usb HDD dock reader?

No windows installs need to be done with the hard drive in the system you wish to use the windows install with.

Use the surface to create the windows 10 USB then get the acer to boot to the USB.

 

[Codes 208]

No windows installs need to be done with the hard drive in the system you wish to use the windows install with.

Use the surface to create the windows 10 USB then get the acer to boot to the USB.

Ohhh, I get it now.

will a flashdrive work or should I use an external HDD?

 

[GHG]

Ohhh, I get it now.

will a flashdrive work or should I use an external HDD?

USB flash drive is best. Just make sure it meets the size requirements. I think you need one with 8gb capacity these days.

 

[Codes 208]

USB flash drive is best. Just make sure it meets the size requirements. I think you need one with 8gb capacity these days.

Fair enough, the one I have is 32gb so that’s plenty

 

[longdi]

if you are able to boot into windows, you can run this cmd prompt with your usb win10 inserted
The 'E:' being your usb drive letter

DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth /Source:E:\Sources\install.wim

 

[Jedge]

I don't know if this will be much help - I had this issue a while back.
I rebooted my PC in safemode, went to the drive with OS -> right click properties -> tools and check the disc

Alternatively, there is a windows startup repair that you could try. - https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/repair-windows-10
just search "advanced startup" within your window's PC. Follow the article and repair startup.

 

[Patrick S.]

F8 at boot does nothing in Windows 10.

Reinstall Windows. Maybe boot the PC from a Linux USB live stick before and back up all your porn.