Stuck in splash screen after windows 10 install

I just installed windows 10 and got to the desktop, realized I didn’t put the network card in, I shut it down and put the network card in but now it won’t boot. I tried reseating everything and nothing is loose, left it like this for 5 minutes, no change

I’m not sure why it is stuck at that spot, but could you try hard powering down by pressing the power button for 12 seconds and then booting again?

I did try that, didn’t work, I was able to enter bios and everything so I tried reinstalling windows by choosing my install USB from boot menu. That ended working and seems to be fixed now

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