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Windows 10 broken

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Craig234

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I have a newish PC with Windows 10.

It had one issue, probably from bent CPU socket pins, that it would get a hardware hang on reboot.

Not that big a deal. It mainly came up when Windws demanded to install updates and wanted to reboot.

I'd try to work around that by powering off when it rebooted and restarting.

Until today. Usual pattern. I picked 'install update and shut down'. That worked and then I powered up and it started another long update process.

When it got to 23%, it got a hardware hang (it usually seems to happen at 23% for some reason).

So I powered off and restarted. It said 'restoring your previous version of Windows'. This is all nothing new. It does that and then things are ok.

Except this time. After that it rebooted, I powered off when the BIO screen came up and restarted.

But now, every time I power on, after the BIOS screen instead of the Windows screen I get a blinking cursor on a black screen. If I control-alt-delete, same thing.

So Windows is totally screwed. Naturally I'd like to repair it somehow and save my unbacked up files etc.

Any ideas?

Yes, at some point it'd be nice to have the CPU socket pins looked at, but that's a pretty big project starting with finding anyone who can will do it.
 
Maybe it's more important to address the motherboard issues from the bent pins first. Otherwise reinstalling Windows 10 will be a regular agenda for you. Sounds fun? Eh, nope.
 
If you do a "Google" search on how to straighten bent CPU pins then you will find all kinds of methods for accomplishing it.

Some methods are more involved than others and it depends somewhat on how bad bent they are and maybe how many pins are involved.

One method for not badly bent pins is to pull off a ziff socket off a defective motherboard that uses the same CPU type as is needed to be repaired. Just carefully insert the CPU into the ziff and tighten the socket lever.

You could just use a ball pen to carefully straighten a pin or two, but read about this first before you proceed as you dont want to kink or break a pin off.

There are many other methods depending again on number & severity of pin condition.

You could just take the CPU to a reputable computer store & pay a tech to straighten the pins out or better yet, fix the CPU pins as well as correctly install the CPU into the motherboard for you.

If you need a custom pin bender, then go to a hobby model shop and select a correct sized hollow brass tube from the materials section.

Whatever you do be careful to not kink or break off a pin.
 
It sounds like you are talking about an older CPU with the pins on the CPU. He has a CPU Socket with bent pins in the socket. Very much harder to repair.
 
I did google it at the time, and there were no feasible options. Some can apparently do it, I couldn't come close. Here's the type of pins:

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An attempt to do so would mean a complete reinstall, and I could barely get it back together the first time, and that process includes a lot of sliding the heatsink around on the CPU which is what caused the issue in the first place and would probably only worsen it, as the attempt to straighten the pins did.

I couldn't find any service to do it either (repair shop said 'no'), but that's probably the only option to try looking more if I need to get it done.

The good news is, after trying to repair and Windows saying it couldn't be repaired, and then hanging again, it just started booting finally.
 
I thinknifnthenproblemnwasnreally bent pins on the CPU it pribably wouldnt work in the first place.

Weird , intermittent problems can often be caused by a bad pose supply.
 
Ratman6161 said:
I thinknifnthenproblemnwasnreally bent pins on the CPU it pribably wouldnt work in the first place.

Weird , intermittent problems can often be caused by a bad pose supply.
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I think it's one or a few bent pins likely. For one, the first odd issue with bent pins caused 2 of the 4 RAM sockets to prevent the system from booting if they were used. An attempt to get them straightened didn't do a lot, but it fixed that.

This is a Seasonic, brand new PS, and the behavior is very specific to rebooting - running 24/x7 otherwise has no issues.
 
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