Help, my computer is acting weird

Recently my second monitor just died a day before my computer started acting up. It started when I was just watching videos while doing some other stuff and constantly repeatedly heard device notification. The one where windows notify you when a device is connected, it's constant, there will be a moment where it is silent then I'll hear it again. I stopped whatever it was I was doing to see my monitor going on and off. I turn my PC off and remove the second monitor, cords and all, before powering my PC back up.

Then once more, I hear the notification again, this time it says there was a USB device that can't be recognized, but all my stuff was still functioning and I couldn't pin point which of the devices was failing since it would be okay again and no devices were acting weird as far as I was concerned. I restarted the computer and that seemed to fix it as I don't hear the notification anymore and all my devices were working fine

The next day when I booted up the computer, I heard the device notification again this time while in the windows startup menu. I restarted the computer again thinking that will solve it only to see that the boot is a bit slower and the windows logo is stock with no loading dots on screen

I already tried doing all the troubleshoots via going to the recovery mode windows has but still nothing works. I tried going to safe mode to disable the fast startup but I'm just stuck in the windows loading screen without the loading dots. Also, I disconnected all my USB devices except for the keyboard, but using an office keyboard

I don't know what to do and I am tempted to just reinstall windows and hope there's an option where I can keep all my files still. Any advice will help, thank you

Posted Jan 25, 2026, 4:33 AM UTC

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