Today I replaced my old i3 8100 for an i7 9700K but I had to unplug everything from my motherboard in order to install my cooler master 212 evo cooler.
However, upon trying to boot to windows, the PC froze on the welcome screen that appears after entering your password for windows 10 and it would not move after that. So I restarted the power to my PC
Upon the second boot, I was greeted with a message asking me to repair windows and reset it. So I went through the reset process but it froze once again before the process could even get past 0%. When I say freeze, I mean everything freezes. The little loading icon does not even move. A few more power resets and boots, later I came to realize this problem would not just go away.
At this point I believed it must be the BIOS that was out of date. So, I created a bootable USB drive that had the correct BIOS files so I could install the update. However, once getting to the M FLASH screen where I select the file needed for the bios, it would freeze once again, but this time after about 2 minutes, the computer would completely power down and then power on by itself where it then booted to the BIOS which, of course, was not updated like I wanted to. My cpu temp before the freeze was 50c
Specs:
MSi Z370 A PRO motherboard
16gb ddr4 ram
Nvidia GTX 1660ti (not oc)
Intel core i7 9700k
EVGA 500w psu
Seagate 2tb barracuda hdd
However, upon trying to boot to windows, the PC froze on the welcome screen that appears after entering your password for windows 10 and it would not move after that. So I restarted the power to my PC
Upon the second boot, I was greeted with a message asking me to repair windows and reset it. So I went through the reset process but it froze once again before the process could even get past 0%. When I say freeze, I mean everything freezes. The little loading icon does not even move. A few more power resets and boots, later I came to realize this problem would not just go away.
At this point I believed it must be the BIOS that was out of date. So, I created a bootable USB drive that had the correct BIOS files so I could install the update. However, once getting to the M FLASH screen where I select the file needed for the bios, it would freeze once again, but this time after about 2 minutes, the computer would completely power down and then power on by itself where it then booted to the BIOS which, of course, was not updated like I wanted to. My cpu temp before the freeze was 50c
Specs:
MSi Z370 A PRO motherboard
16gb ddr4 ram
Nvidia GTX 1660ti (not oc)
Intel core i7 9700k
EVGA 500w psu
Seagate 2tb barracuda hdd
