- Nov 15, 2012
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I've had my custom build since late November and up until this past weekend, I hadn't had a single issue out of it. When I powered my PC on Saturday morning, I was greeted with a "Missing Operating System" screen. A friend recommended that I use my Windows 8 disk and use the Automatic Repair Tool. After doing that, I was told that automatic repair could not fix the problem. I then tried the Refresh your PC option, but was greeted with this message, "The drive where Windows is installed is locked".
This is where it gets really strange. After exhausting my options on the Windows disk, I exited the program and my computer restarted. When the computer powered back up, my monitor went straight into Energy Saver mode, just an Amber light glowing. My Keyboard wouldn't kick on either. My keyboard and mouse are both Razer, and both have Blue backlights. The mouse still lights up, but the keyboard doesn't.
Everything in the case seems to be operating correctly, PSU is on, fans are spinning, hard drives are spinning, the optical drive still works, etc. I've tried re-seating all of the components, changing the battery on the MOBO, removing/changing the memory in different slots. I'm completely puzzled. It seems that the no Video/Keyboard problem is something seperate from the missing operating system that i originally had.
A couple things of note, I had my 2 WD's VelociRaptors set up in RAID-0. I hadn't downloaded anything or made any changes prior to this happening. I manually install all of my updates etc. Any help would be very much appreciated, as I'm to the point where I'm ready to take it somewhere and pay to have it fixed. Below are the components that I have. I know it doesn't make a difference, but all components are only about 4 months old.
Intel Core i5-3570k
MSI Z77A-GD55
MSI GeForce GTX 660 TF
2x WD VelociRaptor 300gb
G.Skill Ripjawz X 8gb (2x4) DDR3 2133
Corsair HX 750 PSU (Gold Certified)
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo
NZXT Phantom 410
Windows 8 Pro
This is where it gets really strange. After exhausting my options on the Windows disk, I exited the program and my computer restarted. When the computer powered back up, my monitor went straight into Energy Saver mode, just an Amber light glowing. My Keyboard wouldn't kick on either. My keyboard and mouse are both Razer, and both have Blue backlights. The mouse still lights up, but the keyboard doesn't.
Everything in the case seems to be operating correctly, PSU is on, fans are spinning, hard drives are spinning, the optical drive still works, etc. I've tried re-seating all of the components, changing the battery on the MOBO, removing/changing the memory in different slots. I'm completely puzzled. It seems that the no Video/Keyboard problem is something seperate from the missing operating system that i originally had.
A couple things of note, I had my 2 WD's VelociRaptors set up in RAID-0. I hadn't downloaded anything or made any changes prior to this happening. I manually install all of my updates etc. Any help would be very much appreciated, as I'm to the point where I'm ready to take it somewhere and pay to have it fixed. Below are the components that I have. I know it doesn't make a difference, but all components are only about 4 months old.
Intel Core i5-3570k
MSI Z77A-GD55
MSI GeForce GTX 660 TF
2x WD VelociRaptor 300gb
G.Skill Ripjawz X 8gb (2x4) DDR3 2133
Corsair HX 750 PSU (Gold Certified)
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo
NZXT Phantom 410
Windows 8 Pro
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