Question Much slower boot time after power outage.

[nichtor]

Hi there, recently while I was on my PC I experienced a power outage that caused my PC to shut off and turn back on again a few times. When I booted the computer after power was restored I couldn't get past a black screen with a "-" in the top left corner. After restarting it again It brought me to a blue screen that told me windows didn't load correctly. However I couldn't repair it because my keyboard and mouse would not work. I next decided to reset the CMOS, Making sure to enable xmp.
This got me back into my computer, however It felt considerably slower to load applications in general. I ran sfc and dism, as well as checked my ram usage to ensure it wasn't damaged.
I also checked speeds on both of my ssd in cmd and everything looked about right. Just under advertised read/write speeds.
The biggest difference I notice now is my boot time. Previously it was below 5 seconds. Now it takes 30 seconds, with the main amount of time being on a black screen before the motherboard logo comes up. The pc itself still feels a bit sluggish. I'll post my specs below. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

- RTX 4080
- Ryzen 7 5800x
- Corsair ddr4 16gb
- MSI MPG x570s Edge
- Fractal Gold 850w Psu
- WD 1tb sn550 nvme ssd (boot drive)
- Crucial mx500 1tb ssd

Thank you for taking the time to read about my issue.

 

[Lutfij]

I would look into doing a system restore to a point prior to the power outage happening. To also note, now would be a good time to backup all of your mission critical data from your drive, recreate your bootable USB installer and reinstall the OS.

 

[General_Cool]

This sounds like a problem with the drive being dead. Unplug your drive(s) and try to just boot into the BIOS. If that works then you at least know the rest of your PC is fine.

If you cannot get into the BIOS, I'd suggest replacing the CMOS battery, and if that doesn't work, you might be looking at a new motherboard.

Bad news either way unfortunately.