Question Hard drive and booting issues - PC is a vegetable

Sep 22, 2024
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So in the middle of a game my PC suddenly turned off and restarted. It fell into an endless loop of running automatic repair and not being able to diagnose the issue. I noticed my NVMe boot drive wasn't showing up in the BIOS, so assumed it had died and removed it.

Reinstalled Windows onto a SATA SSD. Now while trying to download Steam games, I've had two BSODs. First said "critical process died". Second said "WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR".

It now boots straight to BIOS, and the SATA drive is also not showing under my storage information.

Not sure what's going on, I'd already bought a replacement boot drive but now I'm thinking it might be something more serious. Ryzen 7600, 4070 Super, NVMe, 32GB DDR5, ROG B650A Gaming Wifi.

EDIT: Just now I made sure every single cable connected to the PSU was plugged in correctly. CPU cable may have been ever so slightly loose? Frankly it's 4am and I'm delirious at this point though so don't take my word for it.

After this it said Windows couldn't load correctly. I tried the troubleshooter and it said it removed some recently installed updates to recover it from failure. Now I'm downloading games with no issues so far, but not holding my breath.
 
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