PC wont boot after motherboard screen

tommeh

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Hi guys,

Since last Friday my pc (Q1 2016) is acting weird. When i shut it down, it wouldn't go off on its own. It basically got stuck on the ''shutting down'' windows 10 page. After waiting for over ten minutes, I unplugged the power.

Now it will not boot at all, and its basically stuck on the motherboard screen. I can however acces the motherboard menu.

At the end of last week i did a full virus scan and cleaned out some harddisc space for the ongoing steam sale. All seemed to be working well.
My best guess is that it is some kind of hardware related issue, though I am no expert in this area.

I build the PC myself and it has worked very well for the past 18 months or so.

PC specs;
MSI Z170A Gaming Pro Carbon
MSI GTX970 in SLI
Intel 6600K
2x Samsung SSD 850 pro 512 GB in raid 0
Corsair 16GB vengeance 2133 ram

Does anyone have some advice for me? I would prefer not to fully reinstall windows, as I will lose a lot of playtime in many of installed my games.

I would very much appreciate any assistance.
Thank you.

 
Solution

You would probably have to re-initialize the RAID before installing windows, just like you did when you built your system.
I would recommend that if you MUST have a raid setup, that you at least use RAID1, or mirroring for the redundancy. I don't know that you were getting NOTICEABLY faster load times with SSDs in RAID0 anyway. I would also recommend having a HDD for data storage. At least you wouldn't have EVERYTHING lost if one of your SSDs bites the dust.


Sounds to me that you have discovered hard way the main flaw in using RAID0 for your boot disk. By powering it off without a clean shutdown, you may have jacked up your RAID setup. With RAID 0, if you lose one drive, you have lost the whole raid, and there is no recovery. Sorry!

 

You would probably have to re-initialize the RAID before installing windows, just like you did when you built your system.
I would recommend that if you MUST have a raid setup, that you at least use RAID1, or mirroring for the redundancy. I don't know that you were getting NOTICEABLY faster load times with SSDs in RAID0 anyway. I would also recommend having a HDD for data storage. At least you wouldn't have EVERYTHING lost if one of your SSDs bites the dust.

 
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tommeh

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Okay. Thank you man.
I will no longer use a raid configuration in the future.
 

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