Question System wont start after upgrade.

Brandon_140

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I recenetly upgraded my system from a Ryzen 7 1700 to a Ryzen 7 5800x. This required me to update my bios to the latest bios for compatability reasons. So i updated my bios to latest, installed the new cpu, and now my computer won start. I have the MSI x370 sli plus motherboard. The "boot" light shows on the motherboard meaning its having a boot issue (no duhh). I tried resetting the cmos, unplugging all drives execpt the boot drive, that didint work
It shows my hard drives under the system information but if i load the boot menu nothing shows up. The system recognizes the drives but wont boot to them. I made sure my boot order was set up propery starting with uefi hard drive. I tried changing boot mode to legacy, or cfm that didint work. I even just reinstalled windows 10 using a usb flash drive and that didint work
It just wont boot/ recognize the drive as a bootable drive. (But it recognized the usb windows install). I really dont know what to do. Somebody please help.

System Hardware:
Mobo: MSI X370 SLI Plus
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800x
GPU: Powercolor Red Devil Radeon RX 480 4gb
Ram: 2x Corsair Vengance 3200mhz DDR4 8gb
2x Team Force Vulcan Z 3200mhz DDR4 8gb (32GB Total)
PSU: Corsair RM1000e
Storage: ADATA 128GB SSD
KINGSTON 240GB SSD
Western Digital Blue 1TB HDD
Segate Barracuda 2TB HDD
(Just the ADATA 128 GB currently installed for windows)
Windows 10 installed (not booting)
 
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I recenetly upgraded my system from a Ryzen 7 1700 to a Ryzen 7 5800x. This required me to update my bios to the latest bios for compatability reasons. So i updated my bios to latest, installed the new cpu, and now my computer won start. I have the MSI x370 sli plus motherboard. The "boot" light shows on the motherboard meaning its having a boot issue (no duhh). I tried resetting the cmos, unplugging all drives execpt the boot drive, that didint work
It shows my hard drives under the system information but if i load the boot menu nothing shows up. The system recognizes the drives but wont boot to them. I made sure my boot order was set up propery starting with uefi hard drive. I tried changing boot mode to legacy, or cfm that didint work. I even just reinstalled windows 10 using a usb flash drive and that didint work
It just wont boot/ recognize the drive as a bootable drive. (But it recognized the usb windows install). I really dont know what to do. Somebody please help.

Update your post to include full system hardware specs and OS information.

Include PSU: make, model, wattage, age, condition (original to build, new, refurbished, used).

Is there a speaker: any beep codes?
Updated with specs (no beep codes/ no speaker)
 
Will the system boot into Safe Mode?

If you disconnect all drives except the boot drive, will the system boot?

Check the Motherboard's User Guide/Manual. Ensure that the boot drive is using an available SATA connection.
The system wont boot atall, its as if windows is not installed on the computer. It shows the drive under system information but when i open up the boot menu theres no boot options.

Yes only the boot drive is connected yet it still wont boot.

Yes the boot drive is connected in the 1st sata port.
 
Four drives - correct?

Which drive is the boot drive?

ADATA 128 GB - listed as storage and boot?

128 GB likely too small for Windows 11.

Ensure that the cable connections (both ends) to the boot drive are fully and firmly in place.

If so, then try another known working cable.
 
I have 4 drives but the only one i have installed right now is the boot drive which is the ADATA 128gb ( Windows 10).

The cable is connected and working because it shows up under system information in the bios. But it wont boot from that drive and if i open the boot menu, it doesnt appear as and option.