- Jan 20, 2022
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The issues started about 4 months ago. I was out of space on my 512GB nvme drive and decided I'd upgrade to a 1TB nvme drive. (Long story short, I wasn't able to clone the disk properly onto the new drive, so I just reinstalled Windows 10.)
Put the new card in, couldn't install Windows to it. Had to remove all my old drives in order to get it to install onto the new drive.
Started immediately getting major issues after I reinstalled my old drives. Blue screens of death, couldn't boot up into Windows, booting into the wrong Windows install despite the BIOS listing the correct drive as the boot drive.
Got a new SSD drive, and decided to install Windows onto that one instead of the nvme (which seemed to be losing data I'd write to it or having to be 'repaired' after the motherboard posted in order to load into it). The install went without a hitch onto it. Great, I think to myself, finally got my PC back.
Now it will have days where it refuses to boot up. Gets past the BIOS load up screen and goes into the Windows load up screen but just spins/loads forever and never loads into Windows.
Just now, the USB ports are now having problems. It'll randomly "flicker" the power to the USB ports which makes things disconnect and reconnect - or if I have too many things connected, then all the USB ports shut down until I remove enough devices. I ended up pulling everything out of the USB except my keyboard, mouse, and headphones because anything more than that makes it disconnect/reconnect everything.
My question is - do you think this is a motherboard issue?
I tried installing a new PSU to test if that was the issue, but the new PSU wouldn't even turn on at all. Swapped it back to the old PSU and it was able to turn the PC on like normal.
I'm incredibly frustrated at this point and just want it to be fixed. Any input I can get would be amazing.
ETA: Motherboard is an ASUS ROG Strix Z370-E.
Put the new card in, couldn't install Windows to it. Had to remove all my old drives in order to get it to install onto the new drive.
Started immediately getting major issues after I reinstalled my old drives. Blue screens of death, couldn't boot up into Windows, booting into the wrong Windows install despite the BIOS listing the correct drive as the boot drive.
Got a new SSD drive, and decided to install Windows onto that one instead of the nvme (which seemed to be losing data I'd write to it or having to be 'repaired' after the motherboard posted in order to load into it). The install went without a hitch onto it. Great, I think to myself, finally got my PC back.
Now it will have days where it refuses to boot up. Gets past the BIOS load up screen and goes into the Windows load up screen but just spins/loads forever and never loads into Windows.
Just now, the USB ports are now having problems. It'll randomly "flicker" the power to the USB ports which makes things disconnect and reconnect - or if I have too many things connected, then all the USB ports shut down until I remove enough devices. I ended up pulling everything out of the USB except my keyboard, mouse, and headphones because anything more than that makes it disconnect/reconnect everything.
My question is - do you think this is a motherboard issue?
I tried installing a new PSU to test if that was the issue, but the new PSU wouldn't even turn on at all. Swapped it back to the old PSU and it was able to turn the PC on like normal.
I'm incredibly frustrated at this point and just want it to be fixed. Any input I can get would be amazing.
ETA: Motherboard is an ASUS ROG Strix Z370-E.
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