My system HAD 2 external GPUs in it. One just died (I think)
Anyway what happened is there was a power failure here and when the power came back on my PC was intermittently shutting down. When it boots back up windows doesn't try to start there is a message instead
"A disk read error occurred"
"Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart"
I did a memory check. I have no idea how that came out as I wasn't there when it finished and even though the screen where the check is taking place SAID there would be results available when windows booted back up I saw NONE.
When Windows crashes or reboots itself arbitrarily which it's doing now, the SSD with Windows is gone.
I get instead
"Reboot and Select proper Boot device"
"or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key"
It turns out that now I have to "shut down" my PC from within windows now as my SSD with Windows on it is not found if I try to do a reboot now. It's not even in the bios.
If I do a "Shut Down" from within Windows or just power down the PC and go into the bios the SSD is there.
I have no idea what causes this I'm hoping one of you might. As I said this is all new after the power failure.
What I am trying to do currently is add back one of the monitors I lost when my 2nd GPU died temporarily until I can replace the Card. I need it for something I'm working on and need it now.
I'm trying to do this using the onboard capability of my MB and 3770K CPU.
I can't figure out how to get windows to recognize that it should utilize both.
System Specs
Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD3H MB
16GB Corsair Vengeance RAM
3770K CPU
Intel 520 SSD
Gigabyte Radeon 7870OC GPU
Windows 7 Ultimate
Although it would be great if someone could help me with the other issues I'm now experiencing as well if you happen to have expertise.
It's now blue screening as well which is new and is happening even after pulling the GPU that I THOUGHT was causing the problem.
Anyway what happened is there was a power failure here and when the power came back on my PC was intermittently shutting down. When it boots back up windows doesn't try to start there is a message instead
"A disk read error occurred"
"Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart"
I did a memory check. I have no idea how that came out as I wasn't there when it finished and even though the screen where the check is taking place SAID there would be results available when windows booted back up I saw NONE.
When Windows crashes or reboots itself arbitrarily which it's doing now, the SSD with Windows is gone.
I get instead
"Reboot and Select proper Boot device"
"or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key"
It turns out that now I have to "shut down" my PC from within windows now as my SSD with Windows on it is not found if I try to do a reboot now. It's not even in the bios.
If I do a "Shut Down" from within Windows or just power down the PC and go into the bios the SSD is there.
I have no idea what causes this I'm hoping one of you might. As I said this is all new after the power failure.
What I am trying to do currently is add back one of the monitors I lost when my 2nd GPU died temporarily until I can replace the Card. I need it for something I'm working on and need it now.
I'm trying to do this using the onboard capability of my MB and 3770K CPU.
I can't figure out how to get windows to recognize that it should utilize both.
System Specs
Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD3H MB
16GB Corsair Vengeance RAM
3770K CPU
Intel 520 SSD
Gigabyte Radeon 7870OC GPU
Windows 7 Ultimate
Although it would be great if someone could help me with the other issues I'm now experiencing as well if you happen to have expertise.
It's now blue screening as well which is new and is happening even after pulling the GPU that I THOUGHT was causing the problem.