Right, I'm going to go in-depth now about a problem I'm currently having with my PC. I'd really like it if someone could suggest a solution that would solve the problem but I'd understand if you didn't as the problem has given me such a headache too.
Firstly, this problem started when I had been having large lag spikes while playing games but they would be very picky on which games I did have lag spikes on. The spikes would usually go for around three to six seconds and on my screen I would be completely frozen but in the game I have been told by my friends that if I did lag I wouldn't lag on the game sometimes I would continue to walk forwards or sometimes I would freeze in-game so it appears to be completely random. The lag spikes often happen on source games like CSGO and Garry's Mod but I have noticed it occurs badly on Rust too. All these games I can obviously run because I have checked the recommended specs and I'm way over the limit for them all. When it started to lag in CSGO competitive it annoyed me and because I died a lot from the spikes (the lag spikes would happen at random times in games there was no certain time) I decided to thoroughly look on how to solve these spikes.
Me and a friend looked through solutions to try and help the matter but nothing we did helped although many solutions pointed to RAM. After reading this we finally came to a conclusion for him to come over with his RAM and swap it for mine (we both have 8GB but mine is Elite and his is Corsair) and we would play a game to see if it helped or didn't lag but instead we completely exacerbated the situation and the computer wouldn't boot up at all and there was red lights on the motherboard. It was the first time we had done this and I feel as if we didn't push them in properly but he left and I just proceeded to put mine back in anyways, to which I had got them in and there had been no red lights but it gets past the ASUS screen and then says that "Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might have caused the issue." Giving me two options to either start Windows normally (where it gets half way through the starting Windows logo, blue screens and reboots) or to initiate into Windows repair (where it continues to repair it for an hour for nothing to happen afterwards and it continue to crash). I've looked online and it tells me to press F8 to bring up the advanced boot menu before the windows logo appears but pressing it on the ASUS menu just bring up an odd BIOS menu and then pressing it on the "Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might have caused the issue" menu just doesn't do anything and there is no where else to press it. I don't really know what else to say about this problem except that I did install some windows updates like a night ago but I don't know if that affected it as it was working fine before we switched the RAMs out.
As you can see I'm currently out of options and have not got a clue on how to get my PC to boot back into the desktop. I will reply to any user with any information they need if it helps them come up with a solution.
Finally, I don't know any of specs right now because I cant actually boot my computer up and turn speccy on for me to post them but if the name of the specs are on the parts inside the PC I can have a look.
Thanks for reading through this if you did and I'm looking forwards for some replies.
Try pressing F8 right after the BIOS splash screen. The menu that pops up is probably the boot selector (BBS) or the EZFlash utility.
When/if you get into the advanced boot menu for windows, go to disable automatic restart on system failure and give us the BC Code (0x000000XX)
[QUOTE=Richard Simmons;48485436]Try pressing F8 right after the BIOS splash screen. The menu that pops up is probably the boot selector (BBS) or the EZFlash utility.
When/if you get into the advanced boot menu for windows, go to disable automatic restart on system failure and give us the BC Code (0x000000XX)[/QUOTE]
Tried for a bit and got it. It seems to be 0x0000007B.
if this is the full code STOP 0x0000007B INACCESSABLE_BOOT_DEVICE ave a look at [url]https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/922976[/url]
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This is the actual error message I get.
yeah look in the bios and see if sata mode is AHCI
[QUOTE=taz0;48485607]yeah look in the bios and see if sata mode is AHCI[/QUOTE]
It was AHCI and I changed it to IDE. Seems to have fixed it for now, thankyou.
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