Several issues after cleaning.
MBD: MSI Mag Z490 Tomahawk
CPU: i5-10400
RAM: 32GB (4 x 8GB) Corsair Vengeance DDR4
GPU: ASUS TUF 3060 Ti
500 2.5 SSD (Main Boot)
1TB NVME (Old, problematic drive)
500 NVME (New-Old drive)
Random irrelevant HDDs
I decided to do a deep clean after way too long. I got a PC working for my nephew and just decided it was time and boy was it time...
I installed another old NVMe SSD, I removed every component, cleaned everything up, and reinstalled it all.
First boot attempts - no output from GPU. Fans would spin for a moment, and stop. The card would stay lit up and start heating up if I left the system on for a bit, but the fans wouldn't spin and there was no output.
Tried reseating several times to no avail.
Removed GPU to see if I could boot without it. Boots up, but I realize it's trying to boot into the new-old nvme. Fine, I'll go change it in bios. All drives, ram, cpu are listed fine in bios. However, under the advanced option for changing boot drives - only the 2 NVMEs are listed, one of them (problem drive) doesn't even have a boot partition anymore. The 2.5 SSD isn't listed.
Okay... So, I'll do a fresh install of windows on the new NVME so I can test the main boot drive in Windows. I go through the install, and now I'm forced into BIOS without any errors. I check the bootable drives again and now the only bootable drive is the problem nvme without a boot partition. The new-old nvme that just got a fresh windows install is no longer listed as a bootable drive.
That was all yesterday. Today I've attempted to clear cmos. Boot with only the 2.5 SSD plugged in. Changed bios to CSM instead of UEFI, even though I'm positive the drives weren't legacy. Not that it mattered, because CSM doesn't support on board graphics apparently and the GPU not displaying was problem number one. Attempted to flash bios, but the MSI.ROM isn't seen on the flash drive through the flash from drive feature in bios. Next I'll be trying a different GPU and trying CSM again, but presuming as I said before - the drives aren't legacy so it probably won't make a difference, but at least I'll know if a different GPU gets output.
Outside of that, I'm unsure what to try. I can rebuild it again from scratch, but it doesn't seem to be directly related to any issues with particular components that I'm aware of, especially considering the drive disappearing as bootable after getting a fresh windows install, and the drive without a boot partition being seen in the menu, but not drives that should be functionally bootable. This leads me to believe it's almost definitely motherboard/bios related.
MBD: MSI Mag Z490 Tomahawk
CPU: i5-10400
RAM: 32GB (4 x 8GB) Corsair Vengeance DDR4
GPU: ASUS TUF 3060 Ti
500 2.5 SSD (Main Boot)
1TB NVME (Old, problematic drive)
500 NVME (New-Old drive)
Random irrelevant HDDs
I decided to do a deep clean after way too long. I got a PC working for my nephew and just decided it was time and boy was it time...
I installed another old NVMe SSD, I removed every component, cleaned everything up, and reinstalled it all.
First boot attempts - no output from GPU. Fans would spin for a moment, and stop. The card would stay lit up and start heating up if I left the system on for a bit, but the fans wouldn't spin and there was no output.
Tried reseating several times to no avail.
Removed GPU to see if I could boot without it. Boots up, but I realize it's trying to boot into the new-old nvme. Fine, I'll go change it in bios. All drives, ram, cpu are listed fine in bios. However, under the advanced option for changing boot drives - only the 2 NVMEs are listed, one of them (problem drive) doesn't even have a boot partition anymore. The 2.5 SSD isn't listed.
Okay... So, I'll do a fresh install of windows on the new NVME so I can test the main boot drive in Windows. I go through the install, and now I'm forced into BIOS without any errors. I check the bootable drives again and now the only bootable drive is the problem nvme without a boot partition. The new-old nvme that just got a fresh windows install is no longer listed as a bootable drive.
That was all yesterday. Today I've attempted to clear cmos. Boot with only the 2.5 SSD plugged in. Changed bios to CSM instead of UEFI, even though I'm positive the drives weren't legacy. Not that it mattered, because CSM doesn't support on board graphics apparently and the GPU not displaying was problem number one. Attempted to flash bios, but the MSI.ROM isn't seen on the flash drive through the flash from drive feature in bios. Next I'll be trying a different GPU and trying CSM again, but presuming as I said before - the drives aren't legacy so it probably won't make a difference, but at least I'll know if a different GPU gets output.
Outside of that, I'm unsure what to try. I can rebuild it again from scratch, but it doesn't seem to be directly related to any issues with particular components that I'm aware of, especially considering the drive disappearing as bootable after getting a fresh windows install, and the drive without a boot partition being seen in the menu, but not drives that should be functionally bootable. This leads me to believe it's almost definitely motherboard/bios related.