Im Stuck on My Bios When I Save and Continue It Takes Me Back
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Posted 05 May 2020 - 10:54 PM
Hey,
Just a couple days ago, my computer randomly stopped booting into Windows 10 installed on my SanDisk SSD. When the computer turns on, it correctly displays the BIOS, detects all installed drives, and appears fine until a drive is selected to boot into. The screen goes blank for a second, then the whole PC shuts down, and reboots repeating the process. Additionally, I have no reason to believe this is a Windows issue as the same issue occurs when trying to boot into a live Linux flash drive. I begun by reseating the RAM to no avail. I also have a spare EVGA 650W power supply that I know used to work fine, so I switched the current 850 to the 650, although I used the same power cables, I did resocket all of them and plugged them into the spare power supply. Same exact issue. I tried reseating my main GPU, an EVGA 1080Ti, with no luck as well (left the 1070). I have yet to reseat the CPU as it will be a bit of a hassle to dismantle the heat sink, I'm not sure if it's worth trying. All this experimentation was also done with all external peripherals detached, except a monitor through DisplayPort.
Additionally, I'm not sure if this has any correlation, but preceding this issue, Windows 10 would sometimes (about 1 in 15 times) when I put the computer to sleep, when I wished to wake it up, it turned back on, but screen would remain blank until a forced reboot. I was never able to determine any information from a few very cryptic error logs.
Any help would be so appreciated!
Computer specs:
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 3 (Running latest BIOS version)
CPU: Intel i5-6600k
GPU: MSI GTX 1070 & EVGA GTX 1080 Ti (Yes, two graphics cards, previously used for mining)
PSU: EVGA 850W Gold
RAM: Corsair Vengence 2x8GB (Not exactly sure which specs, I can't find the box)
Edited by chickenwingding, 05 May 2020 - 10:56 PM.
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Posted 06 May 2020 - 12:30 AM
Did you reset the BIOS or make any changes to it before this happened?
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Posted 06 May 2020 - 12:42 AM
Unplug power cable from PSU. Press the power button for 20 seconds.
Remove the CMOS battery and wait 5 minutes and insert CMOS battery back.
Make sure to connect only the disk where Windows was installed...if you installed Windows while having only one disk on your PC. Otherwise you must have the disks that were connected while installing Windows was installed on the same ports.
Also check all that all hardware, power and data cables are properly seated.
Leave only one stick of RAM on B1 slot.
Plug power cord and power PC. Try to enter the BIOS.
Edited by yuanyasmine, 06 May 2020 - 12:43 AM.
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Posted 06 May 2020 - 07:41 AM
Did you reset the BIOS or make any changes to it before this happened?
Nope, BIOS has been and still is on factory default settings.
Unplug power cable from PSU. Press the power button for 20 seconds.
Remove the CMOS battery and wait 5 minutes and insert CMOS battery back.
Make sure to connect only the disk where Windows was installed...if you installed Windows while having only one disk on your PC. Otherwise you must have the disks that were connected while installing Windows was installed on the same ports.
Also check all that all hardware, power and data cables are properly seated.
Leave only one stick of RAM on B1 slot.
Plug power cord and power PC. Try to enter the BIOS.
Thanks for the advice, I shall work on these steps when I have more time tonight.
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Posted 06 May 2020 - 04:34 PM
Followed all the steps suggested by yuanyasmine, and I got the exact same result. Even with no drives attached, the PC won't boot into a flash drive. I've read reseating the CPU could also possibly fix the problem, would anbody advise the same?
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Posted 06 May 2020 - 06:25 PM
What is the 1st boot device in the BIOS?
Is it a SATA drive?
What is the BIOS set to for that drive (AHCI or what) ?
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Posted 06 May 2020 - 07:41 PM
What is the 1st boot device in the BIOS?
Is it a SATA drive?
What is the BIOS set to for that drive (AHCI or what) ?
The SSD with my Windows boot partition is the first boot device in the BIOS. It's a SATA drive configured for AHCI.
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Posted 08 May 2020 - 01:32 PM
After trying literally everything under the sun, a quick BIOS reflash (to the same version as before mind you), did the trick...
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