Let me run you through how this problem happened.
I bought new hardware (mobo, cpu, storage, vga, ram, psu) and built it in my old pc's case. Boots Windows 10 fine and used it for a couple of months.
I decide to buy a new case. I moved all the new hardware into this case, but had never booted it up because I was fixing issues with the liquid cpu cooler. Meanwhile I put all the old hardware into the old case, got an old HDD and installed Windows 10 on it and it boots fine. I should note that I did not put a cd key because I was using this pc as a temporary solution; I also logged in using my Live account. "Not genuine" watermark shows up on the lower right as expected.
Finally finish issues installing my water cooler and decide to boot the new pc up. After BIOS, I get a black screen with the message "Reboot using a proper boot device and press any key to retry". Could the sdd have become corrupt? So I try to troubleshoot: I put the HDD with windows from my old pc into the new one and boot it using the ssd as slave drive. Runs fine, and all the files on my ssd are right there. I can't tell if windows is fine just by looking at the files, so I reinstall windows.
Now I try to boot up using my ssd and the same message shows up. I have tried putting only the ssd in the sata ports, putting the sata cable in every port, changing sata cables, but with no resolution. My thoughts? Could it have to do with me running Windows on the HDD on the old pc and using my Live account? I haven't tinkered with the SDD since I had it in the old case (when it was working) till I put it in the new case.
I don't have any more ideas. What do you think? Please let me know.
I bought new hardware (mobo, cpu, storage, vga, ram, psu) and built it in my old pc's case. Boots Windows 10 fine and used it for a couple of months.
I decide to buy a new case. I moved all the new hardware into this case, but had never booted it up because I was fixing issues with the liquid cpu cooler. Meanwhile I put all the old hardware into the old case, got an old HDD and installed Windows 10 on it and it boots fine. I should note that I did not put a cd key because I was using this pc as a temporary solution; I also logged in using my Live account. "Not genuine" watermark shows up on the lower right as expected.
Finally finish issues installing my water cooler and decide to boot the new pc up. After BIOS, I get a black screen with the message "Reboot using a proper boot device and press any key to retry". Could the sdd have become corrupt? So I try to troubleshoot: I put the HDD with windows from my old pc into the new one and boot it using the ssd as slave drive. Runs fine, and all the files on my ssd are right there. I can't tell if windows is fine just by looking at the files, so I reinstall windows.
Now I try to boot up using my ssd and the same message shows up. I have tried putting only the ssd in the sata ports, putting the sata cable in every port, changing sata cables, but with no resolution. My thoughts? Could it have to do with me running Windows on the HDD on the old pc and using my Live account? I haven't tinkered with the SDD since I had it in the old case (when it was working) till I put it in the new case.
I don't have any more ideas. What do you think? Please let me know.