- Aug 6, 2015
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My first post here, please bear with me.
I've been experiencing a few issues with my pc and would like to inquire as to the most probable cause. I originally had Win8.1 Pro installed on a HDD, then bought an SSD and cloned the OS to it. I set the SSD as master in the bios, and the HDD as a slave. The HDD still has the original Windows installation on it.
My home-built pc configuration:
CPU - AMD FX4100 AM+, MB - ASRock 970 Extreme 3, SSD - Crucial MX100 256GB, Slave HDD - WD Black 1TB, 4GB memory
I'll describe my issues in order of appearance. These have occurred over the course of a few months:
1st - once in a while, but not consistently, the pc will immediately restart on its own after shutting it down through Windows.
2nd - a little later after the first issue, periodically the pc would start Windows on the old HDD instead of the SSD. I have to restart, go into the bios and the boot order shows the HDD as master and the SSD shows as disabled. I reset the boot order with the SSD as the master, and the HDD disabled, Exit, and Windows starts normally (on the SSD). I did change the battery on the MB, but it made no difference.
3rd - a couple months later now the pc is having trouble starting. I press the power button, the pc turns on with fans running, but nothing (not even the MB start screen) shows on the monitor. I manually force the pc to turn off by holding in the power button for 5 seconds. I have to repeat this process a few times and eventually get a Windows error that it failed to start normally, and it shows two options: the first is to contact support, and the second is to "Restart my PC". If I click the restart option the pc than starts normally.
Can anyone steer me to the most probable component failure? MB, PS, SSD, memory, or how to test for the probable cause?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
-Diedesigner
My first post here, please bear with me.
I've been experiencing a few issues with my pc and would like to inquire as to the most probable cause. I originally had Win8.1 Pro installed on a HDD, then bought an SSD and cloned the OS to it. I set the SSD as master in the bios, and the HDD as a slave. The HDD still has the original Windows installation on it.
My home-built pc configuration:
CPU - AMD FX4100 AM+, MB - ASRock 970 Extreme 3, SSD - Crucial MX100 256GB, Slave HDD - WD Black 1TB, 4GB memory
I'll describe my issues in order of appearance. These have occurred over the course of a few months:
1st - once in a while, but not consistently, the pc will immediately restart on its own after shutting it down through Windows.
2nd - a little later after the first issue, periodically the pc would start Windows on the old HDD instead of the SSD. I have to restart, go into the bios and the boot order shows the HDD as master and the SSD shows as disabled. I reset the boot order with the SSD as the master, and the HDD disabled, Exit, and Windows starts normally (on the SSD). I did change the battery on the MB, but it made no difference.
3rd - a couple months later now the pc is having trouble starting. I press the power button, the pc turns on with fans running, but nothing (not even the MB start screen) shows on the monitor. I manually force the pc to turn off by holding in the power button for 5 seconds. I have to repeat this process a few times and eventually get a Windows error that it failed to start normally, and it shows two options: the first is to contact support, and the second is to "Restart my PC". If I click the restart option the pc than starts normally.
Can anyone steer me to the most probable component failure? MB, PS, SSD, memory, or how to test for the probable cause?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
-Diedesigner
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