Help, the PC stopped working during the game and now only restarts to the BIOS.
Help, the PC stopped working during the game and now only restarts to the BIOS.
I was playing a game when my PC screen turned black. However, I could still hear everything clearly. After rebooting, it went directly to the BIOS and showed no bootable drives. All hard drives except the OS were disconnected, and the PC started up in Windows. I connected the drives one by one until I found and replaced the faulty one.
My PC functioned normally for about a week until the issue returned. This time it wouldn’t boot at all, so I used a flash drive to reinstall Windows 10 on another drive. After that, the PC started up again and everything worked properly until it happened for the third time within less than 24 hours.
Even though there is an OS drive with a bootable device in BIOS, it still doesn’t appear as a bootable drive. I ran Memtest64, which passed, and I was able to boot Windows 10 Mini from the flash drive. The hard drives I checked are all functioning correctly. I also stress-tested the CPU, and it performed well.
If anyone has any suggestions on what might be causing this problem, I would really appreciate it. At this point, I have no idea what’s going on.
Motherboard: ROG Strix Z490-E gaming
CPU: i5 10600k
GPU: rtx 4070 super