Windows 10: Windows 10 boot loop on installation, brief spinning dots and then resets itself

This problem has been so puzzling to me, I am going to give full backstory of everything that has occurred and everything that I have tried. Apologize in advance for verbosity. HistoryI have a machine that was running Windows 10 just fine with latest updates applied. Application software crashed and the OS was crashed hard. My 5 year old kid was using it to play a game and powered it off when stuff wasn't working right. Windows reported to me that the boot files had been corrupted. I attempted every method of recovery I could think of using the recovery console and command line scannin

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Windows 10 is always stuck at spinning dots; can't reset and can't recover

I just upgraded my Alienware Aurora R4 from Windows 8.1 Pro to Windows 10 Pro. Everything seemed to go okay. I was able to log in and everything as per the usual. Then I went to reboot it, and now it stays stuck at the spinning dots (before loading Windows). I am able to get into the BIOS but I cannot do a lot of things I have been trying to do to fix it:

• Can't boot into Safe Mode (stuck at spinning dots).
  
• Tried running the command prompt from the recovery screen and doing chkdsk and sfc scans. Nothing seemed to be wrong.
  
• Can't System Reset (also gets stuck at spinning dots).
  
• Can't boot into Windows 10 USB recovery media I made for it (tried both legacy and UEFI boot mode options, but this also is stuck at the spinning dots).
  
• I unplugged all peripherals besides mouse and keyboard.
  
• ePSA boot looks good; no problems found.
  

I have researched into this, I know that some people have successfully been able to reset after this, but not I. Similar questions haven't helped. I can't seem to do anything. I don't mind wiping this garbage PC at this point and reinstalling from scratch, but am unsure how. It looks like I may need to run some other boot software to wipe the entire system off the PC. Any suggestions?

 

Stuck at Spinning Dots

I tried anotehr boot. spinning dots or 20 min and I gave up and powered off. Back in 2015, I had an issue with a Dell XPS 8700 with spinning dots. Pulling the CMOS battery fixed it. I tried it on this machine and after resetting the bios settings, booting, and now again just spinning dots. I am at 10 minute of just spinning dots.

I am at a loss on this on this.

 

Windows 10 Failure to Boot Passed Splash logo and spinning dots

Hello,

The summary, I need assistance in trying to repair my windows 10 system that since freezing and having to reset it two days ago it has not booted again. I have not been able to boot past the splash screen and spinning dots since this freeze, it will show
splash logo and spinning dots at the bottom of the screen and then go to a black screen and stay there.

At the time of the freeze I was playing a video game installed on my SSD which is where my Windows 10 OS is installed and also transferring some photos from my phone to my standard HDD. I've had the occasional system freeze/lock up requiring a reboot before
with no problem.

What I've tried so far:

1. 2x Hard reboots to force the system into automatic repair on the third. This will go through POST to the splash screen, which instead of the spinning dots will ready 'Preparing Automatic Repair'. This then goes straight to a black screen and stays there
   indefinitely, at this point I either have to reset or do a hard reboot to try again.
   
2. BIOS Boot menu - from here I've made sure of the correct order, number 1 being Windows Boot Manager on my SSD, I have also used the boot override menu (F8) to select this manually. This results in the same, splash logo and spinning dots followed by indefinite
   black screen.
   
3. Boot from my original Windows 10 USB (UEFI), both with and without my SSD with Win 10 connected to the machine and fast boot disabled, CSM enabled, Secure boot enabled. This seemed to get me a half a step further, I was shown a screen where I could select
   to enter setup for either Windows 10 (64bit) or Windows 10 (32bit) or run a memory test. Selecting the 64bit setup option would then begin to show 'Loading Files' along the bottom of my screen, this would then move to a splash logo of windows and spinning
   dots, then straight to a black screen indefinitely again.
   1. I also ran the memory test, it did not find any faults, also removed and reseated each DIMM, no faults founds. Trying the setup option again after this still results in a black screen, I tried the 32bit install and got the same black screen result.
   2. I played around with a number of BIOS boot settings (CSM & Secure Boot) and never got further than spinning dots followed by black screen.
4. Windows Media Creation Tool - I thought I'll give this a go because my original install USB didn't work. I used the media creation tool and a brand new USB Flash drive to create a new bootable installation media. The tool made this without any errors.
   When I boot from this new USB though I end up with the same result, this time though I get no setup selection (presumably because I made it only for Win 10 64bit) it's straight to windows splash logo and spinning dots, followed by black screen.
   1. I've tried using this new USB when my OS SSD is connected and not-connected, same result of black screen.
   2. I have tried with the GFX card removed and using CPU gfxs, same result of black screen.

Through everything I've tried not once have I ended up at the start of the Windows 10 install environment where I could select repair, so far everything I've tried results in an indefinitely black screen after the first splash logo and spinning dots go away.
I'm at a loss from where to go from here with troubleshooting this without perhaps pointing the finger at my motherboard. My motherboard however has not shown any fault lights or beep codes and which ever boot media I've tried it is recognizing and seems
to try to use it but then I fall down at the black screen each time.

Any assistance would be much appreciated, even if its trying the same things again but with a slightly different or more structured approach.

System specs for reference:

OS: Windows 10 Home (64bit)

CPU: i5-6600K 3.5ghz

Mobo: Asus Z170 Pro Gaming

RAM: 16GB (2x 8GB Corsair Vengeance 2133 MHz)

SSD: Samsung 850 EVO 250GB

HDD: WD 1TB 7200 RPM (WD10EZEX)

GFX: Asus Strix AMD Radeon R9 390 8GB

PSU: Corsair RM650i (650 watt)