I dont know what to do. It won’t boot at all now. Just gets stuck on the asus logo. Bad motherboard perhaps? How could I check? Buy a new motherboard and hope it fixes the issue?
Look up the stop code. It’s there for a reason. driver_pnp_watchdog infers a driver failed during boot. Look for how to solve that using windows’ own repair tool.
The BSOD was a one off. Now the thing refuses to boot and gets stuck on the asus logo or the automatic repair every couple of forced shutdowns. Is my motherboard faulty??
You need to run a checklist from least invasive to most invasive to be sure. Do you have a means to run a liveboot of any random Linux distro to just see whether the system will boot from it? If it does, it’s probably not your motherboard but more likely a damaged drive.
The asus logo is often just the windows logo with a theme applied. Can you boot into safe mode at all?
Nope. Stuck stuck stuck on the logo every single time now.
You can’t get to UEFI?
Pressing Del or F1 way before this logo shows up?Given your downvote I assume you can’t get to UEFI before UEFI starts booting Windows (in the pic), that the keyboard presses do nothing.
This might be basic, but have you checked if the keyboard or keyboard connection is faulty?
(I mean trying with a different keyboard or a different set of USB ports.)
I would expect your boot drive to fail before your motherboard.
Do you have a windows installer or something else you can boot off of? If that boots then your board is probably fine.
Easiest diagnostic. Get a flash drive and put a live image on it. Mint. Fedora. Whatever. Boot to the drive. If it works fine, run a long smart test on the drive. Mint and Fedora both have that built in. If the drive looks okay, pull whatever data you can onto another flash drive and reinstall Windows.
Most likely just a software issue. Try booting Windows into Safe Mode. If it works, try rebooting normally and see if the problem was magically fixed.
…its not booting at all. Freezes on the logo every single time. Can’t even boot from usb.
Your computer does boot from the boot drive. Windows just fails to load properly. Safe Mode is intended for exactly this kind of situation, but Microslop in their infinite wisdom has made getting into it as convoluted as possible. See if this helps you to get into Safe Mode: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-startup-settings-1af6ec8c-4d4a-4b23-adb7-e76eef0b847f
This problem doesn’t in any way affect your ability to boot from USB. If your PC for some reason can’t boot from USB, it’s a separate issue. Can you enter Boot Menu? UEFI Setup? Do you get any error messages when you try to boot from USB?
You choose to boot from USB drive or in recovery mode via BIOS/UEFI (you are already booting Windows if you see the Windows logo).
I’ve never successfully recovered from Windows shitting the bed like that. Just restore from backup.
Great. I dont have a recent backup.
Live USB like others have said. Get your files off there (onto a second USB) and do a fresh install of windows.
