Recent content by DaddyJohnny

These are both very good ideas. I have access to the original boot drive, so I should be able to try just this, and the motherboard model is printed on the mobo itself, so I can be sure that the UEFI is fully updated as well. Thank you for these recommendations.

This led to the PC just bootlooping until I forced it to go into UEFI. Still wasn't recognizing another drive at that point.

RAID was already disabled, unfortunately. I did try enabling and disabling it, though, to no avail.

I have now emailed them, but I did not get this PC from Origin, I got it from a recycling service. I tried calling and they were unwilling to support me. The PC did boot and was working appropriately enough before I tried switching out the boot drive.

As an update, plugging it in to ethernet allowed it to display that media was present, then it attempted to boot from PXE over IPv4. This failed as I don't have any deployment software set up on my home device. Afterwards, it attempted to boot over IPv6. This also failed, and it still has not...

I'm not sure yet. I can try that. I'll update probably tomorrow.

Hey folks, I have an Origin prebuilt PC that I recently got. I am fairly certain that there is some form of motherboard defect, but I am not totally sure of the extent of it. What I have discovered and have not found a solution for, however, is that the PC refuses to recognize boot devices. In...

You're right! I have changed the configuration to have only 1x8 RAM stick, I've made it so that I use my paired 2x4 sticks, and I've used DDR3 RAM that hasn't been in the build currently, all as separate attemps. It was a 6BG card. Currently, 2 sticks are matching, and 2 are not.

Now that I've finally had a chance to attempt it, I am unhappy to report that following all of the advice provided here, as well as reflashing the PC, and even trying a new GPU has done a whole whopping nothing for me. I was able to download update files enough to have it prompt me to restart...

As for follow-up here, I will try this and update soon, thank you. I also don't know if it's great or not, but it is the second PSU I've tried, both with the same issue, so I don't know. My partner had also told me the restarting happens more often when she's gaming, which leads me to believe...

That's what confused me! Maybe it's the disk drives, I suppose? But the grinding is random and comes *right* from where the SSD is. I also checked the SSD on CrystalDisk, which shows that it's operating similar to a brand new drive. I'll try unplugging the disk drives and see if that changes...

Hmm... After nearly 3 hours of being on, it finally restarted after the SSD started making a grinding noise. I did replace the SSD with an HDD and got this same issue before, however. :/

System parts are the following: 20 GB DDR3 RAM, various models AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core CPU Corsair VX 550 W PSU 250 GB Toshiba SSD MSi Twin Frozr 7 GeForce GPU Does stay on in Diagnostic Startup, but also stays on after a reflash, just as long as I don't start updating anything.

It doesn't currently make it to the desktop, so I'll need to reflash the PC, and I will attempt this, as well as get specific components tomorrow. Thank you for the ideas.

I've been trying to troubleshoot this PC for a couple weeks at this point. It's a Frankenstein build with extra parts I had lying around so my partner could play PC games with me, so I'm not 100% on the specs. So, she's been able to use this PC for about 5-6 months with no problems. After this...