I'm facing a weird issue on my Windows 10 PC. Last weekend I reinstalled Windows to rollback from the latest Windows Insider build, so I didn't format all the drive but just did a fresh Windows installation. Since then, every time I power up the PC, it restarts itself without any previous warning within a couple of minutes — just black screen and motherboard logo again. It could appear as an hardware issue, like a classical overheating or faulty RAM issue, but the curious fact is that once it rebooted then it goes on for hours without any further problem. Moreover, again, this strange behaviour only started since the reinstallation of Windows. Is there something I can do to track down the issue?
My specs:
- ASRock Z77-pro4 Motherboard
- CPU Intel Core i5-3450
- NVidia GTX 680 4gb
- 32gb (4x8gb) DDR3 Kingston
- Samsung SSD 850 EVO 1TB (Main HDD)
- Seagate ST1000DM003-9YN162 (Backup drive)
Thanks for any suggestion!
Best Answer
By googling around I found this post in which an user suggested to disable Fast Boot in Windows 10. I did so just to try, and I have to admit I've not had a reboot since then, and some days are passed already. Here are the steps to disable Fast Boot (or Hybrid Shutdown, as he calls it), but you can find them by just follow the link on the post I already linked here. They're written for Windows 8 applies to 10 as well:
So, as it seems, it was a software issue, not an hardware one.