[SOLVED] PC turns on and off immediately

[desw]

Hey,

I've built a new pc with mostly new components. The only old ones are the ssd from the last system.

The motherboards shows light, but after I press the power button the fans will spin for 2 seconds and stop.

I checked all the power cables, plug out and in the RAM, CPU and GPU.

I am really helpless here and don't know what else I should do.

Motherboard: ROG STRIX B650-A Gaming Wifi
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7900x
GPU: Radeon RX 7900 XTX
PSU: RM1000X Corsair

 

[desw]

You don't need to worry about TPM when installing Windows 10, but it's one of the supposedly "essential" requirements of a standard Windows 11 install, unless you created the bootable USB from the ISO with something like Rufus.

As rickypicky5 says, make sure you only one drive connected when you install Windows, i.e. the one you want to install Windows on.

So? Should I just press "Y"? It doesn't manipluate the BIOS or the files in any way? Sorry for asking again, I just doesn't want to do something, which will be hard to fix.

 

[Misgar]

Press 'Yes' to reset the corrupted TPM.

I don't know if you set up any previous installations of Windows with TPM enabled, but it is possible to run Windows 10 without TPM.

There are two types of TPM.

One involves plugging a very small TPM daughter board on to a special header on the motherboard. These are quite rare.

The second involves using the electronic TPM built into modern CPUs. These are quite common.

Switching on TPM in the BIOS, then installing Windows, makes your operating system more "secure", but the additional complexity of TPM can lead to problems.

For my sins, I've never enabled TPM in Windows 10 on the limited number of my machines with this facility. Most of my older computers do not have TPM 2.0.

If you are going to install Windows 11 without too much hassle, you must have a modern CPU and motherboard that support TPM version 2.0 and switch on TPM in the BIOS.

Somehow or other, your motherboard's TPM has become corrupted. Whether or not this was in a hardware TPM module or eTPM in a processor I don't know. I'd be inclined to switch off TPM in the BIOS if you're installing Windows 10, despite the slight reduction in security.

If you're installing Windows 11, clear or reset TPM first, then enable TPM and install Windows.

Do some reading online about TPM and Windows installations.

 

[desw]

I wanted to install Windows again, but I didn't have enough space on the M2, so I tried something different again and realized, that my pc didn't started, because of the second SSD. I switched the cables with the newer ones of the new MOBO. Now the PC starts without problem, but it doesn't recognize my second SSD. Sadly on it are some important data, Windows itself and my last backup was a while ago. Did I broke it?

I tried with other cables again, it doesn't work and with the cables, that I used with my old system, it won't start up.

 

[Misgar]

Is your second SSD a SATA drive? If you can no longer see the drive, it might have died and caused the TPM error message.

Open Windows Disk Manager and see if the drive is visible there. Check in the BIOS to see if it has recognised both drives

 

[desw]

Is your second SSD a SATA drive? If you can no longer see the drive, it might have died and caused the TPM error message.

Open Windows Disk Manager and see if the drive is visible there. Check in the BIOS to see if it has recognised both drives

Yes, it's a SATA drive. But why did it die? Is there really no way to recover the data?

To be honest, I am not sure where my documents were saved. Either on the M2 or the SATA. I will buy another harddrive, so I can do a completely new Windows install on it.

 

[Misgar]

Have you checked the SATA drive in Disk Manager and the BIOS yet? If the drive is still visible to the BIOS and Disk Manager, it may simply have lost its drive letter. In that case you just reassign a new drive letter and hope it becomes readable again.

Disk drives die for a number of reasons. Hard disks can die slowly and often give a warning they're on their way out in the SMART data. SSDs sometimes drop back to "safe" read-only mode, or they may just vanish, never to be seen again.

Unless you send a dead SSD off to a professional data recovery house and let them unsolder the memory chips to read them individually, there's nothing you can do. This type of repair could cost $400 to $1000. Even then, there's no guarantee they'll get anything back.

The first time you lose irreplaceable data is when you kick yourself for not keeping at least two additional copies on separate drives. The more copies you make and the more frequently you backup data, the smaller the chance of total loss. Backup your remaining data before you do anything else.