I first had this issue around October of 2023 where after a windows update it was just stuck in boot. The first time it happened, I waited for a couple of hours and then forced shutdown and turned it on again except this time it said something about recovery while booting (not the blue screen or anything, just something along the lines of recovery/troubleshooting right above the loading animation). However instead of taking me to a different page/screen it just restarted and got stuck in the initial boot.
I tried going in to the bios and resetting it but nothing worked. Turned of fast boot but that didn't work either and in the end even disabled secure boot hoping that might help. However the result remained unchanged. After a little bit of research, I found out that resetting the CMOS might help but unfortunately that was no use either.
After that, I tried installing previous versions of windows (since at the time I was on 11). I was hoping that if it was a driver issue, it can be fixed or the problem just might be ignored by a previous version of windows like windows 7. Oh, I forgot the mention, I tried reinstalling windows 11 before this but was stuck in boot again. This same issue happened while installing windows 7 like even before the installation started it was stuck in that pretty 'starting windows' animation. So was out of the option too.
After a bit more research, I found out that it could be an issue with the ram and to check if it is or not, I could use this thing(OS i think?) called memtest. So I made a bootable drive, booted in to it and ran the test which lasted for a really long time and it showed that there was no issues at all. My options were slowly running out and I was getting a little scared.
This is when I remembered something that I tried in the past. I remembered using ubuntu using a usb on my mac a couple of years back when that had an issue. So I tried doing the same thing on this laptop and it worked. I then installed ubuntu on my drive to get rid of windows completely so that I try reinstalling it again. One thing I found out was that my trackpad was not working. I also remembered seeing and I2C issue for the amd driver. Looked it up and found out that it can cause issues with keyboard and mouse drivers along with other things.
Anyways I was just happy to see things work out. However just like my relationships, this happiness could not last that long. Windows would refuse to make it past the initial loading boot. At the same time it felt a bit nice since I thought I aleast have a way to work on things and I tried my best. I installed amd drivers hoping that would fix the trackpad issue (which just might fix the windows issue). However, installing the drivers never helped. I ended up giving up for a while so that I could relax and come up with fresh ideas.
After three weeks, I found something new. I found something called xinput which might help showing the drivers. I was supposed to type xinput list but surprisingly xinput alone worked and out of the blue my trackpad started working. It even started working in the bios and stopped right after I booted in to ubuntu. I repeated the process and it worked again. Big win. I was able to install windows this time and everything worked fine. However it did not last that long. Updating windows was fine. No isses happed over there. However, while installing the amd drivers, I noticed the I2C thing again as one of the 6 options selected along with chipset and the others. After this installation, the trackpad stopped working again. I went to device manager instantly and found out that it was an I2C issue in the mouse section. After tinkering with microsoft's support website for a bit (and also a couple of other websites), I found out that uninstalling that driver would be fine since windows would reinstall it except windows never did and we were back to getting stuck in boot again except none of the solutions that I tried the first time is working again. Sorry for making this too long. I appreciate any help I can get.
Here are the specs:
Hardware Model: ROG Strix G513QY
Processor: AMD Ryzen 9 5900hx with radeon graphics x 16
Graphics: AMD Radeon rx 6800m
