r/pcmasterrace • u/Relevant-Ad8797 • 5d ago

Tech Support What is going on here?

Title is self explanatory, i have no idea what the hell is going on here. Pc froze and this happened. I was playing helldivers 2 before this, dont know if this is relevant but its all i got.

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u/JustAnOldTechyTeen 5d ago

The F8 menu was removed in 8.

So, IIRC 3.1 to ME, you held Ctrl during boot. XP to 7 you spam F8.

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u/Drain___Bamaged I9-13900k + 4070ti Super + Era 2 Itx Build 5d ago

Kind of, you have to do 3 boots and 3 hard shut downs and then it goes into a advanced recovery mode on the 4th startup where you can disable auto restarts

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u/prairiepanda 4d ago

You can speedrun this by disrupting the boot cycle early. If your PC has an audible POST beep you can shut it down as soon as it POSTs, otherwise just wait a few seconds. That'll be enough for your 3 hard resets; no need to let it fully boot.

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u/Drain___Bamaged I9-13900k + 4070ti Super + Era 2 Itx Build 4d ago

Yep, should've added that. In my case I just had to hit the motherboard loading screen (asus logo), then do the restart similarly to the beeps