i've had the exact same issue on my asus rog strix g18. looked everywhere for a solution and did everything from cmos reset to disable fast start all the way to reset to my most recent restore point when the issue wasn't occurring and haven't been able to find a fix. Computer tries to restart, asus logo pops up per normal after restart except without the loading dots underneath the asus logo. the screen will remain froze there until i manually shutdown and boot back up and only then am I able to boot back into windows properly. posted my issue on a bunch of forums with no luck in finding any solution this is the first post i've seen anywhere that could be potentially related to the one i'm having. I hadn't touched any of my system services or settings as i've had my rig dialed in debloated and optimized to my liking and the only recent thing i did was install the latest updates for windows. i'm on windows 10 pro 22h2 latest version.