I accidentally turned my computer off before closing XTU

[jnilsson618]

Hello,
I was too lazy to turn my computer off the right way, so I shut off the switch on the back of my PSU. I forgot that Intel Xtreme Tuning utility was still running and I was overclocking my core i7-7700k (MSI Z170M mortar). when I tried turning it back on, I got the BIOS splash screen and then a message that said "Reboot and select proper boot device - insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key" (meaning that it's not recognizing my OS drive). This happened once before and it was fixed after I tinkered around a little bit with it and doing random things such as changing storage mode from AHCI to RAID and back again, putting in a Windows installation disk and selecting "Repair your computer" and using system restore (which, by the way, did not work. just told me to specify which drive to perform system restore on and I couldn't get it to work), resetting CMOS, taking out all other drives, and putting my OS drive in a different computer. I can't remember what exactly I did to make it work again last time. I'm pretty sure it was XTU, because last time, the first thing I saw when it worked again is the screen saying that the previous overclocking settings did not work. any suggestions? I'll keep tinkering around with it in the meantime

 

[InvalidError]

If you randomly shut down your PC while the SSD was actively writing stuff and other computers won't recognize the drive anymore, chances are that file system structures got corrupted. You may need to use file recovery utilities to attempt extracting any important data may be on it before re-formatting the drive to restore the SSD back into a usable state.

 

[jnilsson618]

If you randomly shut down your PC while the SSD was actively writing stuff and other computers won't recognize the drive anymore, chances are that file system structures got corrupted. You may need to use file recovery utilities to attempt extracting any important data may be on it before re-formatting the drive to restore the SSD back into a usable state.

This has happened before, though, and it worked fine after I did some stuff to it.

 

[InvalidError]

This has happened before, though, and it worked fine after I did some stuff to it.

A lot of stuff is going on in the background on an SSD. You could repeat the unexpected power loss scenario 1000 times and get 1000 different results depending on what was going on within the SSD, where and the exact timing. A power loss at exactly the wrong time such as while the SSD is updating internal mapping tables will have a far greater impact on the SSD's integrity than a power loss while writing regular user data and the latter is far more likely to happen than the former.

That's why enterprise SSDs have a bunch of on-board capacitors to give the controller enough time to finish updating critical information while consumer SSDs simply pray for the best.

 

[jnilsson618]

I know this is a really specific problem, but just in case anybody else has it, I solved it by turning on game boost. Probably turn it off if it was on before you turned off your computer because turning game boost on or off resets the cpu profiles. This will only work if you shut off your computer without closing out of Intel Xtreme Utility