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Question

PC constantly shutting off itself or on a restart loop

Apr 11, 2018 8:20PM PDT

I'm having issues with a seven-year-old 2011 HP TouchSmart 610-1015XT All-In-One PC. Originally windows 7 updated to windows 8 for a short time then, 10. It has been through one hard disk issues once in its lifetime and needed a replacement, but other than that it has been perfectly fine and even fast up until maybe a year ago it finally became a grandparent of a computer and started showing its ageing.

My Actual Problem:
As of last week, I decided to use it after not really using it much the past year and noticed the task manager said disk was in 100% in use. I tried many ways (from online) to fix that but many of the ways wouldn't even work because the PC won't even let me into most of the certain programs like device manager and I noticed how stubborn the PC was actually being. So I tried to let the system run a disk check or whatever overnight, and that was a mistake. I noticed everytime it would run the check before booting it would boot at 50%. Ever since then it would work at times but as soon as I try to fix something it would restart and run a whole loop of restarting and then turn on. Then I would try to update windows because I noticed it never updated, but that only made the shutting off and restarting even worse I think. Programs still wouldn't work and the disk is still at 100% and now the computer would even shut off on its own, in the middle of me doing something. Then it would turn back on by itself like a demon to run some check then shut off again. I've never seen it do this before, but can a hard disk really affect a computer to that degree?? I'm thinking there are other hardware issues playing a role in it too. At this point I can't even turn it on, the only way to turn it on is to unplug it an plug it back in, but not if I turn it on, 7 minutes later it will shut off now even less I barely made it to the lock screen. Is it having trouble storing new information let a whole disk check? I don't have any really important information in there so if all I have to do is replace the drive, I will. I don't have warranty anymore for it. I'm using my laptop for everything now but just need this PC to last until I finish building my actual computer. Sad

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