Windows 10: Windows froze after startup.

Today, after loading up my PC to play a game, my sounds sounded distorted for a second and then it happened again but this time it froze everything. This included the call I was in. I had to force restart to fix it but does anyone know what happened? I checked my minidump files and there was nothing new.

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froze screen

Hi,

Windows 10 may have encountered a system conflict that caused this issue. Since you can't access anything after it got stuck to 75%, we suggest that you perform a startup repair. Kindly follow the steps below on how to perform this troubleshooting step:

• Boot to Advanced Startup Options from a hard reboot. Press and hold the power button on your PC until it powers off and until it powers on.
• Repeat steps 1 and 2 above until you see the Windows logo screen or Please wait
  during boot. Usually it may take repeating up to 3 times.
• Select See advanced repair options.
• Under Advanced Startup Options, select
  Troubleshoot.
• Select Advanced options. Under Advanced options, select
  Startup Repair.
• If prompted, select an administrator account to provide credentials for approval, type in the password and click
  Continue.
• Startup Repair will now start Diagnosing your PC, and attempt to automatically repair it.

Please allow a couple of minutes or hours to diagnose your PC by the startup repair.

Kindly get back to us with the results.

 

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