[SOLVED] C:/ drive acting weird; possibly dead.

Xerrlow

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Aug 5, 2016
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Suddenly, my C:/ drive stopped working. Nothing was wrong with it until now. It has the OS (win10) on it. I came back from class a few hours ago and turned it on to see if it was working. The windows spinning wheel is there, indicating that windows is there and the C:/ drive is “working”. The thing is, it spun for hours. I got to the screen you would see when you boot windows in safe mode and clicked “continue to windows 10”. Then I was taken to a screen which asked me to select my boot drive, and when I went into the bios the D and E drives were the only ones there. I also got a blue screen that said “stopcode: PROCESS1_INITIALIZATION_FAILED”, and on another restart, there was text below the spinning wheel is text that says “Starting automatic repair” followed by a black screen.

The drive is an SSD and showed no signs of failing prior to this.

My other HDD kept deactivating and reactivating upon restart for a while before this happened.

Specs here: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/RHFxNQ

UPDATE: Nothing shows up when I turn the PC on, just a black screen. The motherboard's debug light is on and is next to "VGA".


 
Solution
Remove the video card from the system, unplug system from wall power, remove the CMOS battery for about 10 seconds, don't but the video card back in use onboard video. Does it turn on then?