Hello,
I've recently bought a new motherboard and an HDD due to the fact my old mobo and drive failed, however, I expected it to work just fine, but my hopes were ruined once I had to shut down the PC and start it again.
The hard drive spins up, fans spin up, everything seems to be working, but then the HDD light flashes for a second and refuses to boot to Windows unless I restart it (several times sometimes) or clear the CMOS.
I doubt it's the HDD really, because I've tested another WD Blue 500GB and it was having the same issues, I'm currently looking at the motherboard or the BIOS itself but I can't seem to figure it out myself, so here I am, whether to fix it or just return the motherboard and ask them to replace it while it's not too late.
It's a fairly new build, so I doubt if any of the parts are failing.
Specs:
MOBO: ASRock 970m Pro3 (BIOS P1.60 / 06/17/2016)
CPU: AMD FX 4300, Quad Core @ 3.8 Ghz
CPU Cooler: DeepCool Ice Edge Mini FS V2.0 (25-30C Idle/50C Gaming)
RAM: 8GB (2x4GB Dual Channel) Klevv Neo Creative Evolution @ 1600 Mhz
GPU: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB GDDR5
HDD: WD Blue 1000GB 3.5" 7200RPM, 64MB cache, SATA 3
PSU: Corsair VS450 450W
Symptoms:
What I've tried:
Everything of the above fixes the issue only temporarily until next shut down, then it sometimes boots up, sometimes not.
I've basically just built a whole new PC and didn't expect it to have issues, but here we go again.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
I've recently bought a new motherboard and an HDD due to the fact my old mobo and drive failed, however, I expected it to work just fine, but my hopes were ruined once I had to shut down the PC and start it again.
The hard drive spins up, fans spin up, everything seems to be working, but then the HDD light flashes for a second and refuses to boot to Windows unless I restart it (several times sometimes) or clear the CMOS.
I doubt it's the HDD really, because I've tested another WD Blue 500GB and it was having the same issues, I'm currently looking at the motherboard or the BIOS itself but I can't seem to figure it out myself, so here I am, whether to fix it or just return the motherboard and ask them to replace it while it's not too late.
It's a fairly new build, so I doubt if any of the parts are failing.
Specs:
MOBO: ASRock 970m Pro3 (BIOS P1.60 / 06/17/2016)
CPU: AMD FX 4300, Quad Core @ 3.8 Ghz
CPU Cooler: DeepCool Ice Edge Mini FS V2.0 (25-30C Idle/50C Gaming)
RAM: 8GB (2x4GB Dual Channel) Klevv Neo Creative Evolution @ 1600 Mhz
GPU: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB GDDR5
HDD: WD Blue 1000GB 3.5" 7200RPM, 64MB cache, SATA 3
PSU: Corsair VS450 450W
Symptoms:
■Hard disk spins up, but it doesn't boot into Windows /sometimes/.
■HDD light flashes once, then it goes inactive until I reboot.
What I've tried:
■Switching SATA ports.
■Switching SATA cables.
■Switching HDD power cables.
■Testing with different HDD.
■Clearing CMOS.
■Formatting the disks and doing a clean install of Windows 10.
Everything of the above fixes the issue only temporarily until next shut down, then it sometimes boots up, sometimes not.
I've basically just built a whole new PC and didn't expect it to have issues, but here we go again.
Any help is greatly appreciated!