TLDR: All storage drives, including a newly-bought SATA and newly-bought NVMe SSD, either do not show up or I am unable to install Windows on them. What's happening???
One day I was playing Elden Ring, when my game suddenly froze and bluescreened with a memory management error.
When I restarted the computer, it automatically booted into BIOS, now showing that both of my 2TB NVMe SSDs were not detected. No matter how many times I restarted it, the issue persisted. I tried taking them out and putting them back again, but it didn't work.
I took my computer to the local Micro Center for a diagnosis, and they weren't very helpful. They basically repeated back to me what I thought the issues were, which I thought at the time was my drives or a faulty motherboard.
The SSDs seemed to work just fine on my laptop through an external SSD reader though. I tried formatting my boot drive and reinserting it into my desktop, no luck. Still not visible.
My non-boot drive wouldn't let me partition, format, or install Windows on it either.
After more checking, I got comfortable enough to throw some new parts at the problem.
Anyways, I just replaced my motherboard yesterday with a brand new Gigabyte Aorus board and installed TWO new SSDs, an NVMe Crucial and a SATA WD. The Crucial is invisible in the new BIOS, and the SATA WD is visible but cannot install Windows, error code 0x800701B1pops up.
At this point, I'm pretty clueless as to what the issue could be. It's clear that the Motherboard probably isn't the root of the issue, and it's not the drives because even the brand new ones refuse to work. Does anyone have any ideas??
Setup is:
Ryzen 5 5600x
Asus B550 I Strix and Gigabyte Aorus ITX B550
GTX 1080Ti
Corsair 650 PSU
Oloy 16Gb RAM
2x Adata SSDs
One day I was playing Elden Ring, when my game suddenly froze and bluescreened with a memory management error.
When I restarted the computer, it automatically booted into BIOS, now showing that both of my 2TB NVMe SSDs were not detected. No matter how many times I restarted it, the issue persisted. I tried taking them out and putting them back again, but it didn't work.
I took my computer to the local Micro Center for a diagnosis, and they weren't very helpful. They basically repeated back to me what I thought the issues were, which I thought at the time was my drives or a faulty motherboard.
The SSDs seemed to work just fine on my laptop through an external SSD reader though. I tried formatting my boot drive and reinserting it into my desktop, no luck. Still not visible.
My non-boot drive wouldn't let me partition, format, or install Windows on it either.
After more checking, I got comfortable enough to throw some new parts at the problem.
Anyways, I just replaced my motherboard yesterday with a brand new Gigabyte Aorus board and installed TWO new SSDs, an NVMe Crucial and a SATA WD. The Crucial is invisible in the new BIOS, and the SATA WD is visible but cannot install Windows, error code 0x800701B1pops up.
At this point, I'm pretty clueless as to what the issue could be. It's clear that the Motherboard probably isn't the root of the issue, and it's not the drives because even the brand new ones refuse to work. Does anyone have any ideas??
Setup is:
Ryzen 5 5600x
Asus B550 I Strix and Gigabyte Aorus ITX B550
GTX 1080Ti
Corsair 650 PSU
Oloy 16Gb RAM
2x Adata SSDs
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