Hey guys,
I built a new PC and did a clean Windows 10 install. It was going well, until I reached the part about installing drivers. Now, I installed a few from the MOBO manufacture site (an x570 Gigabyte in this case) at once, then did a restart for them to install fully.
At first, it was ok. The audio, chipset and LAN drivers caused no issues.
Then, I went to the SATA RAID/AHCI drivers and Gigabyte specific utility (RGB fusion and App Center). Now, I restarted after those in particular, and then I had the problem. I do not have any SATA drives (SSD or HHD), but I figured to just install the SATA driver because why the heck not? Since I only have a NVMe drive, maybe that driver caused the issue?
PC didn't want to boot anymore, eventually reaching a screen with some message about storage corruption. It booted itself into BIOS eventually (after a few restarts), where I just hit a default option along the lines of "optimize defaults and reboot". Then I did a boot issues autorepair from the Windows options. Now it works again, but I lost a lot of the work I had done on the SSD. Seems like I was restored to a working version of Windows, before those bad drivers...I think..
My question is, what's most likely to have caused it? I checked the SSD (Samsung 980 PRO) with Samsung Magician and User Benchmark and there doesn't seem to be any corruption on it/bad results.
Thank you for the help!
I built a new PC and did a clean Windows 10 install. It was going well, until I reached the part about installing drivers. Now, I installed a few from the MOBO manufacture site (an x570 Gigabyte in this case) at once, then did a restart for them to install fully.
At first, it was ok. The audio, chipset and LAN drivers caused no issues.
Then, I went to the SATA RAID/AHCI drivers and Gigabyte specific utility (RGB fusion and App Center). Now, I restarted after those in particular, and then I had the problem. I do not have any SATA drives (SSD or HHD), but I figured to just install the SATA driver because why the heck not? Since I only have a NVMe drive, maybe that driver caused the issue?
PC didn't want to boot anymore, eventually reaching a screen with some message about storage corruption. It booted itself into BIOS eventually (after a few restarts), where I just hit a default option along the lines of "optimize defaults and reboot". Then I did a boot issues autorepair from the Windows options. Now it works again, but I lost a lot of the work I had done on the SSD. Seems like I was restored to a working version of Windows, before those bad drivers...I think..
My question is, what's most likely to have caused it? I checked the SSD (Samsung 980 PRO) with Samsung Magician and User Benchmark and there doesn't seem to be any corruption on it/bad results.
Thank you for the help!
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