This is gonna be long, so I apologize in advance.
About 5 weeks ago I went to bed as normal with my computer on, woke up to see it wasn't working. After some troubleshooting I came to realize that it wasn't recognizing my hard drives. I have 4 M.2's in this build. 3 on board, and 1 in a pci adapter. The PCI adapter drive showed up in the bios, none of the rest did. Swapped a non working to PCI, and working to M.2 first, this would tell me if the M.2 slots were dead. The drive that had been showing up, continued to show up, while one of the bad drives still wouldn't. I was getting really stressed at the thought of losing all that data and money on drives so I walk away for about a month.
About a week ago, I figured I would test the bad drives in a m.2 slot on my backup computer, to finally see if my drives were dead or not. It wouldn't give me a display to monitor, which was another problem. Instantly get mad again and walk away.
Decided to breakdown and buy a laptop, been wanting a laptop for a long time, so I made sure to get one with an extra M.2 so I could test, as well as have a laptop. Get a Nitro 5 from Acer. It came DOA. Wouldn't power on, and plugged into the wall, it wasn't showing that it was receiving any power. Go back to Amazon to read the 1 star reviews, it's been a noted problem that they have that issue and come dead on arrival. Return it, and buy another laptop.
Yesterday, finally went back to try to figure out my backup computer not displaying, I had recently moved its case, and hit some random switch on the motherboard, no clue what it does, but flipping it again instantly fix it.
Now I can finally test a bad drive, and it showed up and I could access the data. I only tried 1 of the 3 bad drives, figuring they were all good and it was something else. Only thing I could think of doing was to do a BIOS update on my main computer.
I did that BIOS update on my main computer tonight, and now I'm having another issue. With none of the "bad" drives in, it boots up, shows me bios and goes to the generic screen telling you to insert bootable drive or turn computer off. As soon as I put the "bad" drive in that has the OS, it won't display at all. The debug code is showing E3. I am so far beyond lost. I am out of ideas. I cannot understand how so much can go wrong.
Specs if desired:
Motherboard: Aorus Gaming 9
CPU: 7900x
GPU: 1080ti
64gb of corsair vengeance ram
About 5 weeks ago I went to bed as normal with my computer on, woke up to see it wasn't working. After some troubleshooting I came to realize that it wasn't recognizing my hard drives. I have 4 M.2's in this build. 3 on board, and 1 in a pci adapter. The PCI adapter drive showed up in the bios, none of the rest did. Swapped a non working to PCI, and working to M.2 first, this would tell me if the M.2 slots were dead. The drive that had been showing up, continued to show up, while one of the bad drives still wouldn't. I was getting really stressed at the thought of losing all that data and money on drives so I walk away for about a month.
About a week ago, I figured I would test the bad drives in a m.2 slot on my backup computer, to finally see if my drives were dead or not. It wouldn't give me a display to monitor, which was another problem. Instantly get mad again and walk away.
Decided to breakdown and buy a laptop, been wanting a laptop for a long time, so I made sure to get one with an extra M.2 so I could test, as well as have a laptop. Get a Nitro 5 from Acer. It came DOA. Wouldn't power on, and plugged into the wall, it wasn't showing that it was receiving any power. Go back to Amazon to read the 1 star reviews, it's been a noted problem that they have that issue and come dead on arrival. Return it, and buy another laptop.
Yesterday, finally went back to try to figure out my backup computer not displaying, I had recently moved its case, and hit some random switch on the motherboard, no clue what it does, but flipping it again instantly fix it.
Now I can finally test a bad drive, and it showed up and I could access the data. I only tried 1 of the 3 bad drives, figuring they were all good and it was something else. Only thing I could think of doing was to do a BIOS update on my main computer.
I did that BIOS update on my main computer tonight, and now I'm having another issue. With none of the "bad" drives in, it boots up, shows me bios and goes to the generic screen telling you to insert bootable drive or turn computer off. As soon as I put the "bad" drive in that has the OS, it won't display at all. The debug code is showing E3. I am so far beyond lost. I am out of ideas. I cannot understand how so much can go wrong.
Specs if desired:
Motherboard: Aorus Gaming 9
CPU: 7900x
GPU: 1080ti
64gb of corsair vengeance ram