I've been having some serious issues with my PC lately. After about 30 minutes of light use, I started up a game, but the performance was way off. My mouse and keyboard LEDs started flickering, my internet kicked out, and then things just spiraled from there. When I force-closed the game, my mouse movement became super sluggish. I ended up restarting, which took forever, and it launched an automatic disk repair. But now, all I get is a black screen after the motherboard logo. I can access the BIOS, but nothing else works. I've plugged my monitors into different ports on the graphics card and even into the motherboard directly, but that didn't help. I tried Startup Repair, but it failed and just gave me a log file. I also attempted a System Restore—it didn't do anything either. Do I really need to reinstall Windows? I'd prefer to keep my files if possible, but I'm okay with wiping everything if that's the only option.
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Sounds super frustrating! Have you tried clearing out your temp files? Press Win + R, type %temp%, and delete everything in there. Also, running a virus scan and using Disk Cleanup might help. But if all else fails, don't lose hope and good luck troubleshooting!
I really didn’t think about a virus since I usually scan everything I download. I’ll definitely check that after work!