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So recently my computer has been restarting by itself, by restart i mean a hard restart as if someone cut the power and turned it back on..
After a day or two it stopped giving a signal to the monitor at all, or to any peripherals for that matter. All the fans on the computer were working so i don't think its the PSU that's the problem.

So to find out what the problem was i decided to use my friends computer to test with and see what's up. I tried switching GPU and RAM but everything worked fine on my friends computer, so i tried my SSD.

When i tried the SSD on my friends computer the first message that popped up was that windows need to be repaired or something similar so i tried to do the automatic repair, blue screen happened and it restarted. It kept doing the same thing after several tries, blue screen and restart.

So i thought i found the culprit but nooo that's not all. When i used my friends HDD on my computer it still didn't give any signal to monitor or keyboard...at all.

To sum it up, my SSD keeps giving blue screens on friends computer. His working HDD nor my SSD gave any display signal at all. Now i don't know what to believe or what to replace. I think it's both my mobo and ssd that needs to be replaced.

What/who do you think is causing this problem?
Is it possible to save my SSD somehow by maybe doing a reformat?
Is there some other way to check if the motherboard has anything to do with the problem?

Ty for reading and i hope you can help me out here, feel free to ask me anything about stuff that might help you or me out!
 
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Sorry, I assumed you were using your friend's PC to troubleshoot. If your machine has another drive I would suggest installing Windows on that, and then test your SSD afterwards, don't have the SSD connected while you do the secondary install. Then make sure the SSD is not listed in the BIOS boot order ahead of the other drive when you reattach it.

If you can do that, and if your SSD turns out okay you can reformat it, and reinstall Windows there, and space allowing, just rename the Windows directory on the other drive to something like OldWindows and if you need to use it in the future as your OS/boot you can then rename it back to Windows.
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One, please list all of your components (make/model/etc) and which version of Windows you are using. Two, is your SSD your Windows/Boot drive? If so, then that could have been an issue trying to run it in another machine, Windows tends to only like the machines it's installed on (license, wrong hardware drivers, etc).
 
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Oh sorry i completely forget about the basic information!

CPU: AMD FX-6300
Mobo: Asus M5A97 r2.0
SSD: ADATA Premier Pro SP900 64gb
HDD: Seagate barracuda 1tb
GPU: MSI GTX 660
RAM: Kingston somethingsomething 4x2 GB
PSU: Corsair CX500M
OS: Windows 7 (it's on the SSD)

So there is a chance that there might not actually be anything wrong with the SSD, that the blue screen was caused by having completely different drivers than my friends computer?
 
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Sorry, I assumed you were using your friend's PC to troubleshoot. If your machine has another drive I would suggest installing Windows on that, and then test your SSD afterwards, don't have the SSD connected while you do the secondary install. Then make sure the SSD is not listed in the BIOS boot order ahead of the other drive when you reattach it.

If you can do that, and if your SSD turns out okay you can reformat it, and reinstall Windows there, and space allowing, just rename the Windows directory on the other drive to something like OldWindows and if you need to use it in the future as your OS/boot you can then rename it back to Windows.
 
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Hmm okay i will definitely try it. Thank you!

Let's say the SSD is all good, and the problem is the mobo and/or CPU. Is there a way for me to test whose fault it Is? Without trying the cpu on a different mobo with the same socket (don't got one available).

It would really suck to buy both parts and then it turns out only one of those bad boys are malfunctioning.
 
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Assuming the SSD checks out okay and the problem presists, then post another post asking for troubleshooting steps and testing your other components. However, your issue really sounds like it might be a PSU problem, just because it's running your fans doesn't mean it's not having trouble. Proper power levels of "clean" power is probably one of the most important things for a computer to work properly.
 
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Alright friend i will follow your advice and test out the PSU in a few hours. I will edit this post and tell you if the problem presist after reformatting the SSD (hopefully if i can) and then i'll create a new post. Thank you very much for your help, time and effort!
 
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