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The original was posted on /r/pcmasterrace by /u/BronzyOW on 2023-08-08 06:37:39+00:00.

I came home today and my PC was stuck on “Preparing Automatic Repair”. The buffering dots were there but not spinning, screen was frozen.

When I restarted my PC I keep getting a blue screen and it either says driver irql_less_or_not_equal or BAD POOL CALLER or some other ones I can’t remember. Sometimes it’ll make it to the Windows Logo and then freeze, or blue screen again.

I recently did upgrade my CPU from a Ryzen 2700x to a 5600x. My brother installed it for me and we got the L8.02 bios update for my ASRock B450 Pro4. I’m not sure if that’s the issue because we did that about 3 days ago but had no issues until now.

I tried to run in safe mode but it just opens the BIOS and I’ve been trying to reset Windows but if I launch through the USB it just gets stuck on Windows Logo after seeing the blinking underscore for a few seconds.

Any thoughts on what the issue might be and how I can fix it?

I have:

ASRock B450 Pro4 Ryzen 5600x Rtx 2060 32gb RAM

Let me know if you need more info, thank you!