Water block leak and now struggling to run.

[axlrose]

So I had a leak in my water block. I have everything back up and running again with a new water block but I"m getting the same problem. Hoping someone can help me figure out where the faulty hardware is. I can start it up, and it all seems to run fine. I can go into bios, but after bios, I get a screen with a white box and some green dots.

The leak appeared to be mostly confined to my gpu. I am wondering if I am actually having a problem with my boot drive though?

Thanks for any help figuring out where the problem lies.

 

[parker_307]

since things are going wrong in the bios it usually indicates a hardware issue so im thinking the gpu got shorted somehow and is broken.

 

[axlrose]

Sorry. I need to clarify. I'm in bios right now. No problems there, but when I leave bios to let it boot, that's where the issues is. I am also seeing A6 on my motherboard, which I am thinking is making me lean toward an issue with my boot drive too. Any ideas about A6?

 

[parker_307]

CANT BE THE a6 bucause it would also crash in bios im thinking tis the gpu and the boot device

 

[axlrose]

I'm looking around my bios to try to see if it is finding my boot drive still. When I go to storage, I see sata ports 1-6, but my boot drive is a 960 evo on my m.2. Is there a way to see that somehow?

 

[axlrose]

Guess it should be showing up in one of those sata ports even though it's m.2. Which makes me think my m.2 drive is nuked...

Wonder if there is a way to verify...

Expensive...

 

[axlrose]

If there is still a version of windows 7 sitting on my old boot drive, can I somehow try to get it to boot from there instead just to see if that is indeed the problem?

 

[axlrose]

Sorry for the play by play. I just hit F11 for the boot menu and it's seemingly up and running just fine now??? Why would I have to hit F11 to get it to boot though? Does that make any sense? I've never had to do that before...

 

[parker_307]

well f11 is the key that selects things for boot so thats why.

 

[axlrose]

Is that a normal action? I've never had to hit F11 before? And shouldn't that take me to some boot options instead of booting the system?

 

[parker_307]

well you probobly had it selected on something and it exited or you had the ssd selected then booted