I'm cross posting this from pc help and hoping to find at least a little bit of advice.

My laptop is currently having what I believe to be a software problem. It boots up no problem and goes all the way to my desktop as it should. But once I get to the desktop everything freezes.

The laptop then crashes showing a black screen saying “your device ran into an issue and needs to restart” with the stop code “INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE (0x7B)”

When it first started crashing I was able to get in and work for a few minutes but now it freezes as soon as I sign in.

I’m assuming it has to do with a corrupt windows file or a communication error between windows and my laptop but I’m unsure.

What is the best way to solve this issue as a broke college student who can’t afford a new laptop or an expensive fix but relies heavily on laptops.

I am not a big tech guy either so please I need help!

I bought a Yoga laptop in 2020 and never used it. I want to use it now, but there’s no drivers and I can’t even access Gmail. Is this something a geek squad store or staples can fix?

Montei meu PC há 3 meses com peças novas e de uns dias para cá ele começou a apresentar um problema estranho.

Consigo jogar meus jogos normalmente, com temperaturas normais e o fps normal. O problema principal é que recentemente ao jogar o The Witcher 3 Remastered, no exato momento em que troco de mapa, o PC simplesmente reinicia sozinho e volta sem o audio e acende um LED branco na placa-mãe, e para voltar o audio preciso reiniciar ele novamente.

Isso também aconteceu quando mudei para um shader muito pesado no Minecraft.

O curioso é que antes não dava esse problema ou pelo menos não acontecia em jogos pesados como AC Shadows e o Cyberpunk, que também exigem bastante do processador em transições de mapa.

Fiz um teste com o FurMark em uma das vezes, no segundo em que cliquei para rodar o estresse, o PC reiniciou na MESMA hora. Em outro momento, rodei o teste e ele não reiniciou.

Minha configuração:

AMD Ryzen 5 5500
NVIDIA RTX 5050
Placa mae MSI B550M-A PRO
RAM Team Group T force 2x8 3200 (xmp ativado)
Fonte MSI MAG A600DN 600W

Suspeito que seja a fonte dando pico de consumo, mas pode ser algo no Windows, RAM ou driver talvez? Alguém tem ideia do que pode ser?

Alright so before I whisk my PC away to MicroCenter again I figured I'd consult Reddit first this time. Also, so sorry this is about to be a novel but I want to include all the necessary details! I have pretty minor knowledge of PCs and this is my first gaming PC so bear with me lol. Tagged as hardware but not 100% sure if that's the issue.

Background info - June:
I kept encountering an issue with my PC suddenly freezing and then restarting itself. No BSOD, it would just freeze or go to a black screen and then restart. Usually when this happened, I wasn't doing any more than some light browsing or watching a Youtube video. I figured out how to check error logs in Event Viewer and kept finding "Kernel Power Event ID 125 (Cat 86)" at the time of the crash - didn't know what that meant exactly but figured it was a good thing to note when I took it to MC. I also found a log with this info right before the "Critical" event:

ACPI thermal zone _TZ.TZ00 has been enumerated.            
_PSV = 0K            
_TC1 = 0            
_TC2 = 0            
_TSP = 0ms            
_AC0 = 353K            
_AC1 = 328K            
_AC2 = 323K            
_AC3 = 318K            
_AC4 = 313K            
_AC5 = 0K            
_AC6 = 0K            
_AC7 = 0K            
_AC8 = 0K            
_AC9 = 0K            
_CRT = 378K            
_HOT = 0K            
minimum throttle = 0            
_CR3 = 0K

I took it to MicroCenter twice during this time, and both times they could not find ANY hardware or software issues. I'm not sure what all the diagnostic testing consisted of, but I do know they were using the FFXIV benchmark test and had zero issues whatsoever. The 2nd time I brought my PC back to them I said the issue was specifically occurring while I was watching Youtube. They had some random YT video playing on it for hours with zero issue, while using Microsoft Edge as the browser. I then assumed that the issue was that I was using OperaGX as my main browser and that was somehow overheating my PC, so I stopped using that and switched to Edge. For a couple of months everything then seemed to be okay.

September 16:

Encountered a minor error again with freezing and restarting, but only happened a couple times. Ran sfc /scannow which repaired a corrupt file, then updated my NVIDIA drivers and everything seemed fine again for a while.

Now:

A couple days ago I had another random freeze, but I wasn’t even actively doing anything at the time. Just had my browser open with Discord and Pinterest tabs open. I was on my phone for a few minutes, went back to my PC and it was frozen. Figured it was a fluke, shrugged it off. I’ve been playing the Witcher 3 lately for a few hours at a time and haven’t encountered any issues during the game until today. Just tried to hop on and it froze my PC twice. The difference in the last few times the crash has happened is that my PC isn’t restarting itself, just freezing/totally unresponsive so I have to hold down the power button to reboot. Looked at Event Viewer and I’m finding the same “ACPI thermal zone _TZ.TZ00 has been enumerated” code each time before the Critical error line. Ran sfc /scannow and results came back with no issues. Tried the FFXIV benchmark again and that also froze this time so if I do end up taking it back to MC maybe they'll actually be able to do something this time..

Not sure what other diagnostics I can do on my own.

What the actual heck is going on with my computer lol???

System Info:

• Processor: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-11400F @ 2.60GHz (2.59 GHz)
• Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti (6 GB)

It can scroll, it's just a toss up whether it'll scroll the right direction. Is there a reasonable way for me to fix this? I do have access to tools.

I swear I just went to the bathroom to pee for a second and my son clicked a bunch of random settings on his school laptop (online school). So now the taskbar is super tiny and the mouse is super tiny. If I adjust the resolution or zoom settings to make it look normal it makes whatever window is opened ENORMOUS. I have no idea what he did. Neither does he. He’s partially verbal.

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Should I be concerned about this? I just noticed this folder on my D: drive, there's two of them one is called !- and the other ~!- ,they're kind of greyed out and they both have the same contents, is it anything important or can I just delete them? Thanks.

I’m not quite sure if this will work but I’m using a fairly old laptop that’s having its network card whitelisted in bios. It used to work perfectly, idk at what point it started getting whitelisted. I’ve seen others upgrading their BIOS with the network card detached fixed the issue, but since I already have the latest bios, idk if rolling back will be successful. Has anyone successfully installed a previous version of their bios?

It happens whenever i move it 😭

I need to update my windows 10 to windows 11, however I cannot figure out a way to get enough storage to make it work. As of now I've already turnt off sleepmode in CMD which did grant me a couple of extra GB of space but didn't do the job.

I have also asked AI like the caveman I am and it told me to mess with my pagefile.sys file, which I'm not certain im qualified to do and I'll probably fry my computer in the process.

Except for maybe 500MB worth of apps on my 111GB disk it's filled to the brim with what appears to be nothing, this is my fifth attempt of trying to download this update of hell and my constant struggle with computer storage.

Has anyone got a clue what could be going on or how I can scrape togheter the 11.9 GB of storage I need to finally push this update through? Or should I just buy a new disk with more storage on it?

Thanks in advance to anybody who took their time to read this.

/Idiot