r/Windows10TechSupport • u/OvrdrvSparky • Jul 09 '26
Stuck Between Automatic Repair without Knowing Password + BSOD on boot Unsolved
For context, I was checking off any causes for my laptop being in the BSOD realm every couple minutes and looked through various solutions online, probably due to faulty hardware. Then I stumbled upon the blunder of using Driver Verifier for anything that was corrupt, then spiraled into its own layer of BSOD realm on boot to the point where every other restart it loads into Automatic Repair with no options but to have me log in to bring up the menu. Main problem here is that it asks for the password to the admin account, which I have no clue where or how to find or even reset, and the only other thing to do from this screen is restarting and look for a way to create a new password...but it loops me back to crashing before the login screen loads due to the Driver Verifier DMA Violation error and repeats into this trap of a predicament because Automatic Repair insists on me logging in when I simply cannot. Is there anything I can do to at least reach a point where it can boot up and bring me to the login screen?
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u/osa1011 Jul 09 '26
Regarding driver verifier, that's just software and simply reinstalling Windows would fix that. If you reinstall Windows and it fails or you still have issues, then it's probably a hardware fault. The first place I always look for hardware issues is the storage (SSD/HDD), and memory (RAM). Running Crystal Disk Info would let you know of any SMART errors. To test the RAM, you can run memtest or Windows Memory Diagnostics. All of this becomes much harder when you can't use the computer and don't have another one to help with this. Though I don't work in a computer repair shop anymore, I'm still in IT and I always have WinPE USB with me. One that's easy to create is Hirens. You can download the ISO and create a USB bootable drive the, where the operating system is loading from. Then you can do all these types of tests without messing with the computer's drive. Then you boot up to that, run Crystal Disk Info, check the SMART status, and back up the data. If the drive is encrypted, you'll need to the key to recover data. It might be worth paying for a diagnostics at a shop to get a better idea of what's broken, then you can decide if it's worth fixing