Hey, my computer is all off and I can't use it right now. What's wrong?
Hey, my computer is all off and I can't use it right now. What's wrong?
Hi everyone, my computer died around eighteen months ago and I gave up trying to fix it because nothing worked. I thought I'd take it out of the loft for another try but kept getting the same problem. When I first turned it on, I managed to get onto the desk screen and even installed new graphics card drivers. But after about ten minutes, the screen went black and it restarted two minutes later. I came back to the login screen this time before it started happening again. On the third attempt, I didn't even make it past the Windows loading screen. Now it just shows a message saying Windows isn't loading correctly, even though I did a hard reset.
I can confirm it's not the hard drive because I tried booting my M.2 and SSD drives (which had Windows installed on them). I also tried a fresh install on both the M.2 and SSD plus a new hard drive, but they kept restarting on their own right away and put me back on the "Windows isn't loading correctly" screen.
I can confirm that my CPU temps are fine, and even though my graphics card feels a bit hot, nothing is over its limit. I am at the point where I have to buy a whole new computer setup but I don't have enough money for it. So I am hoping someone can help me figure out which specific part is breaking. Here are my specs (even though they are old): 5960X, RAMPAGE V Extreme, Titan X processor, 4x 8GB Dominator Platinum DDR RAM, and a Corsair AX 860i SSD. All of these were bought new in 2015 and have worked fine until about eighteen months ago.
But the biggest piece of gear for a PC that's not on your paper list is the power supply unit. Tell me which one it is by name and model, or what the part number says. Also, did you get it all new from the factory, fix it up, or just buy it used?
If this computer doesn't turn on, what are you doing to make new copies of your software?
I changed the post and it made my head spin when I looked at it again.
You know, M.2 SSD, even top-end Samsung drives, can die out of the blue. Two months ago, i had it happen with my 970 Evo Plus 2TB. Drive was less than 30 days old and had bootable W10 OS on it. But then, one day, out of the blue, my PC rebooted and drive was gone. Luckily, i kept my old OS drive, 960 Evo 500GB in the system, as 2nd boot option, and i was able to boot into Win. After some additional testing, no luck and i had to RMA the 970 Evo Plus 2TB. Now, RMA is complete and i'm enjoying my 2nd 970 Evo Plus 2TB, which runs fine. So, just because you have OS on your M.2 SSD, doesn't mean the drive works fine. Unless you put that drive into 2nd PC and get it to boot to OS. (Which isn't ideal circumstances due to different hardware, but at least confirms if OS is bootable.) Another thing, albeit rare, is that even when you install/clone OS to (brand new) drive, something may still go wrong and drive isn't bootable. It happened to me, with the 970 Evo Plus 2TB, that i got from RMA. I did everything correctly (install drive, initiate volume in Disk Management, check Samsung Magician if there is firmware update, use Samsung Data Migration Tool to clone the OS, clone was successful). Yet, when i tried to boot from the brand new drive, past POST, i got BSOD of "INACCESSIBLE BOOT DEVICE". I was flabbergasted. I saw the drive in BIOS and was able to access it as data drive without issues (while booting from my 960 Evo 500GB). I struggled quite a bit with it and what i ended up doing, was the OS clone for 2nd time. This time, drive booted just fine and to this very day, it works without issues. So, do test your M.2 SSD as bootable drive in 2nd PC, before putting it into this PC. --- If you have USB thumb drive and 2nd PC, you could also try creating live bootable GNU/Linux distro and boot into the GNU/Linux, to see if the issue is with disk drives/Win or somewhere else. Here's link to the tool to create live bootable GNU/Linux USB drive, link: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-u...-as-1-2-3/ It isn't hard to set it up. Though, you'd need at least 4GB USB flash drive. Oh, you can use almost any GNU/Linux distro you like. I too have live bootable GNU/Linux on a USB drive just in case my Win decides to crap out and i can't access my storage drives. On the above link, there is also a full list of supported distros. If you don't know which GNU/Linux distro to use, then you can go for Linux Mint (i have it installed on my USB flash drive and i prefer it over other GNU/Linux distros i've tried). Linux Mint distro download: https://www.linuxmint.com/download.php Just download GNU/Linux distro, plug in your USB flash drive, start the Universal USB Installer and follow on-screen instructions. Once the installation is complete, reboot your system and after POST, select you USB drive as bootable drive. So that your PC boots into GNU/Linux. Once GNU/Linux starts to load, it presents you several options. One of them is installing GNU/Linux to your disk drive, another is to boot into GNU/Linux from USB flash drive. Select the one that boots into GNU/Linux without installing it. This way, data on your disk drives is safe and entire OS is loaded to RAM (which makes it slow, but still bearable). If you can boot into GNU/Linux, then the issue is with your disk drive/Win. If you even can't get into GNU/Linux, the issue is somewhere else (most likely MoBo).
Which machine exactly? Don't trust an operating system install done on a different computer because it won't work properly. Are you ready to try using Linux on a USB stick instead?