Freezes Windows 10 PC on Start

• Etcher version:1.20
• Operating system and architecture: Windows 10 Pro 1607 14393.1914 64bit
• Image flashed: Recalbox 17.12.02
• Do you see any meaningful error information in the DevTools? No, the pc freezes completely and I have to reboot.

I start Etcher, choose the image, and then choose the SD card. Once I click Flash, the button changes to orange and it’s label changes to “Starting”. After 10 seconds, my pc becomes completely unresponsive and I have to reboot. I have tried to re-download Etcher, downloaded a previous version, changed to a Retropie Image, and changed out SD cards, as well as interface device and usb port. Always the same. 10 seconds in, the pc freezes completely and requires a hard power off to restart. Tried Etcher in a virtual machine running Ubuntu 17.10 on the same pc, same thing. It completely froze the system, requiring a reboot. I do not have access to another pc to test if it’s something in my hardware, which I am sure it is. Also, I did try loading it in Windows without anything else loaded (I.E. Safe startup, and ran bare minimum environment), same result.

Specs:

Intel 4770K, not overclocked. Fatal1ty Z87 Killer Bios V. 2.10 16GB (2x8gb matched pair) Patriot DDR3 - 1600 10/10/10/27 OS Drive: Crucial MX300 2.5 SSD CT525MX300SSD1 525GB Storage: Intel Raid 5 (3x Seagate 3TB IronWolf NAS SATA 6Gbs NCQ w/64MB Cache) Video Card: Asus Strix OC Nvidia GTX 1080ti Driver V. 388.31

I’d get a DevTools readout if I could, but as it freezes my entire PC, and I have to power off, I’m not finding anything or any logs.

[keen9]

Oh man oh man, this issue… Created this account just to post the solution that worked for me. My computer worked flawlessly as long as I had w7, and then when I uppgraded to w10, these strange “my computer freezes”-problems started to occur (hard reset only afterwards). Flashing with Etcher, installing printer driver (Samsung ml-2165), installing Logitech G-hub, they all ended up in complete freezes.

Then I stumbeld over this: https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=324209.0. The solution was to disconnect my dvd-reader from the motherboard (it should be ok to connect it to another sata-port, but I didn’t need it anyway). Oh lo and behold, suddenly all my issues were gone! No more freezes, and everything that previously caused a freeze worked like a charm.

Hope this will come to use for anyone!

[Abyss2381]

It was the later I do believe (RAID setup). I was replacing my RAID with an external NAS, and was using a Linux Live DVD to move all the stuff around. Decided to try Etcher while doing so. It worked flawlessly. I further went in and removed my raid setup after removing the array and reverted my bios to AHCI instead of RAID. It works in Windows 10 now. I’ll copy paste the DevTools log later as I still have a RAID Pc at work not functioning.