PC Blue screened and wouldn't boot

NewbieGeek

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So basically, I had my pc running, I left for a little while, and when I came back, there was a blue screen saying something like "No boot device". I then shut down, and tried to reboot. Nothing. I tried half a dozen times. Still nothing. Finally, after i gave up and started to write this. It randomly decides to boot. So for the moment it's running, but I have no wifi on it.

Do to the error from the bsod, I ran crystal disk and passmark's disk drive tests. Crystal Disk says 99% health, passmark gave no errors, but the scores were quite low. My boot drive is a crucial MX250 250gb ssd.

One other thing, my computer has been restarting randomly and occasionally freezing recently. I don't think its my overclock since I haven't changed anything recently.

I checked Event viewer, there were a bunch of errors, but only one seemed relevant, saying something about a possible power related issue. All the others said the wifi wasn't working, which was obvious.

My system specs

CPU: A10-5800k @4.66ghz
Mobo: Asrock FM2A88X Extreme4+
GPU: MSI r7 370 4gb
RAM: 24gb G.Skill @1760mhz
PSU: Corsair CX600m
(could this be the issue?)
Storage: Crucial MX250 250gb ssd
And Toshiba 1tb


My problems are, BSOD, wouldn't boot, and random reboots/freezes.

At this point my main suspicions are my ssd, (bsod) psu (low end and because of the one system error (event viewer)) and maybe my graphics card?

Thanks for any suggestions!
 

NewbieGeek

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Well everything's working at the moment with my overclock... I mean, I could revert but since it's currently working, I'm not sure how I'd tell my overclock was the problem by reverting to stock if its still working.

I should also mention, when it wouldn't boot up after the bsod, I couldn't get to bios either. The fans spun up but nothing else happened.
 

Ivan96

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I said to revert everything because i had same problem with same symptoms and it turned out it was my overclock so it might work for some time and than it can crash and after you restart you won't be able to boot or even go to BIOS because sometimes after overclock fails you need to clear CMOS. So i'm telling you to revert everything and test it for a few days and if it works than your problem is overclock and if it's not than we will try some other things
 

NewbieGeek

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Hmm maybe I could just try dialing it back a bit? My fps are a fair bit lower at stock speeds hence the overclock... The cost of window has kept me from upgrading to a new cpu/mobo; I don't have much money available for new parts.. I could do a new psu or something but not really a new cpu.

I didn't start having trouble till the last couple of weeks or so...