Question BSOD and GPU problems ?

[IsDevvy]

this may be a loaded topic, or a simple fix. fair warning.

I fully rebuilt my computer about a month and a half ago. It’s been working great until yesterday, where I suddenly got a BSOD when booting up the computer, showing stop code “unmountable boot volume”. I had upgraded literally everything except for my hard drive, which leads me to think my hard drive is failing, or already dead. also though I saw when researching that it could be from corrupt windows files too. which I knew I had an update and my hard drive was already probably at 980gb of 1tb. so another thought, maybe it tried to update and crapped out when it realized there may not have been enough storage.

well after a few boots and getting the same blue screen with the same stop code, my gpu stopped giving any signal to my monitors. idk why, cuz it’s a brand new gpu, but plugging my monitor into my onboard mobo graphics worked no problem. and I can load into my bios with no issues.

So I did a little work myself. I used my laptop and got the windows installation media thing downloaded onto my usb to try repairing my windows files, but with no luck. It said it was unable to repair windows. weird thing, it gave no error code or any information at all in the logs. almost as if it couldn’t find the hard drive or any information on it at all, hence why it may not be able to repair anything when I boot from the usb I made.

I also tried reseating the ram, the gpu, all hard drive connections, I’ve left the pc unplugged overnight, im really at a loss for what’s going on, so here I am. I really need this computer working, and im hoping I just need to pick up a new ssd. but now that it seems like my brand new gpu isn’t working, im a bit worried.

As for my hard drive, ive got 8 years worth of music production files and projects on there. I was wondering if anyone had a little info on how i could restore everything if my hard drive has gone out?

anyway, here’s my spec list. any help is greatly appreciated
-cpu: amd ryzen 7 7800x3d
-mobo: msi b650 tomahawk wifi
-gpu: pny GeForce rtx 4060ti
-ram: Corsair vengeance ddr5 32gb
-psu: evga 650 bp
-cpu cooler: hyper 212 halo black
-storage: seagate 1tb desktop hdd

 

[Lutfij]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

mobo: msi b650 tomahawk wifi
BIOS version for your motherboard?

You never fill your drives to the brim, on that note, you should also have a backup of your data regardless of what you're doing since you will get a warranty on your drive, not your data.

Source(borrow, not buy) a reliably built PSU and see if that helps alleviate your display related issue.

I was wondering if anyone had a little info on how i could restore everything if my hard drive has gone out?
Honestly? You take it to a professional data recovery specialist instead of tampering with the drive if the data on it is valuable.

 

[ubuysa]

I suspect you mean INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE? That BSOD indicates that access to the boot volume has been lost. Is that Seagate HDD your only drive? Why would you rebuild a PC and not use an NVMe system drive? Even a SATA SSD would be a massive improvement.

If you upload the dump file I can probably tell you more.

 

[IsDevvy]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

mobo: msi b650 tomahawk wifi
BIOS version for your motherboard?

You never fill your drives to the brim, on that note, you should also have a backup of your data regardless of what you're doing since you will get a warranty on your drive, not your data.

Source(borrow, not buy) a reliably built PSU and see if that helps alleviate your display related issue.

I was wondering if anyone had a little info on how i could restore everything if my hard drive has gone out?
Honestly? You take it to a professional data recovery specialist instead of tampering with the drive if the data on it is valuable.

Yeah I definitely learned my lesson lmao. gonna keep atleast 100gb free on my drives from here on out. I got myself an m2 ssd and it fixed all my issues, just had to get a fresh copy of windows. next on the list, trying to get my data recovered. I appreciate your input

 

[IsDevvy]

I suspect you mean INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE? That BSOD indicates that access to the boot volume has been lost. Is that Seagate HDD your only drive? Why would you rebuild a PC and not use an NVMe system drive? Even a SATA SSD would be a massive improvement.

If you upload the dump file I can probably tell you more.

I’ll attach the picture of the stop code
https://ibb.co/xjjzZqf

I also had an ssd, just at the end of the day it was my own procrastination that bit me. I had planned on moving all my data over to the ssd but had never gotten to it yet, thinking I wasn’t having any issues with my old hdd. I just picked up a new m2 ssd, took out the hard drive, and it resolved all of my issues. Also installed a fresh copy of windows, so now im just getting all my drivers, apps and whatnot downloaded again. gonna have to take my hard drive to some specialist that can try to recover my project files. Good news (I think), my bios was still detecting my hdd before I put the new ssd in so I’ve got a glimmer of hope with it haha. just can’t use it to boot windows im assuming

 

[ubuysa]

Ah, OK. That's quite a rare bugcheck but even more clear-cut though, the HDD is flaky - or just plain faulty.

No need for a specialist, buy a cheap HDD caddy, plug it in to your PC as a USB drive and see whether you can access it from there. If it still spins you can probably recover data.