Question Whenever I turn my PC on, it goes to BIOS and doesn't boot Windows ?

[ace010101]

Today, out of nowhere, my PC just lagged awfully, restarted and opened BIOS. Not thinking much of it, I tried to leave BIOS but when the PC restarted again it just went straight to BIOS again. Before this, there had been some instances of audio lagging/jittering and my screen just freezing while the PC continued to run.

I tried to resit the CMOS battery, resit RAM, change BIOS settings to the optimised defaults, and disabled fast boot. When I enabled CSM, the screen is stuck on "Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press any key."

I use the Asus ROG STRIX X570-E motherboard and my boot-device (not sure what it's called) is a 1TB Samsung SSD. I'm not sure if the fault might be a loose cable but all the cables that can come out easily seem secured to me and I don't know which cable might be causing this.

 

[Lutfij]

my boot-device (not sure what it's called) is a 1TB Samsung SSD.
Samsung have a number of SSD's in their portfolio, which one do you have?

I use the Asus ROG STRIX X570-E motherboard
BIOS version for your motherboard?

 

[zivglb]

Today, out of nowhere, my PC just lagged awfully, restarted and opened BIOS. Not thinking much of it, I tried to leave BIOS but when the PC restarted again it just went straight to BIOS. Before this, there had been some instances of audio lagging/jittering and my screen just freezing while the PC continued to run. I tried to resit the CMOS battery, resit RAM, change BIOS settings to the optimised default, and disabled fast boot. When I enabled CSM, the screen is stuck on "Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key."

I use the Asus ROG STRIX X570-E motherboard and my boot-device (not sure what it's called) is a 1TB Samsung SSD. I'm not sure if the fault might be a loose cable but all the cables that can come out easily seem secured to me and I don't know which cable might be causing this.

Is your boot device first in the boot priority? Does it even show up there?

 

[ace010101]

Is your boot device first in the boot priority? Does it even show up there?

I'm pretty sure it is since I know I didn't change anything in the BIOS settings since like months and the boot priority doesn't even show up without CSM enabled.

 

[ace010101]

my boot-device (not sure what it's called) is a 1TB Samsung SSD.
Samsung have a number of SSD's in their portfolio, which one do you have?

I use the Asus ROG STRIX X570-E motherboard
BIOS version for your motherboard?

BIOS version is 3603, the specific SSD according to BIOS is SSD 970 EVO Plus.
and sorry for not specifying this earlier;

EDIT
I had used windows installation media to run the command prompt and used sfc/scannow and it found corrupted files and "repaired" them but on the next boot it still went straight to BIOS.

 

[lynn_levi]

use a windows emergency USB if you have any. boot into that and check for the partition table of your boot drive; if selecting the boot drive immediately throws you back to BIOS, there will be corruption in the boot files

 

[SkyNetRising]

I had used windows installation media to run the command prompt and used sfc/scannow and it found corrupted files and "repaired" them but on the next boot it still went straight to BIOS.

Boot from windows installation media into command prompt, execute following and show screenshot.

diskpart​

list disk​

select disk 0​

list partition​

list volume​

If you have more than 1 drive, then also list partitions of all other drives

select disk 1​

list partition​

select disk 2​

list partition​

...​

select disk n​

list partition​

​

Show screenshots from BIOS - boot priority settings.
(upload images to imgur.com and post link)

 

[ace010101]

Boot from windows installation media into command prompt, execute following and show screenshot.

diskpart​

list disk​

select disk 0​

list partition​

list volume​

If you have more than 1 drive, then also list partitions of all other drives

select disk 1​

list partition​

select disk 2​

list partition​

...​

select disk n​

list partition​

​

Show screenshots from BIOS - boot priority settings.
(upload images to imgur.com and post link)

The only other drive is the USB I'm using so here:

https://imgur.com/a/U04umE4

View: https://imgur.com/a/U04umE4

 

[ace010101]

use a windows emergency USB if you have any. boot into that and check for the partition table of your boot drive; if selecting the boot drive immediately throws you back to BIOS, there will be corruption in the boot files

Can you be a little more specific with how I'd do that?

 

[lynn_levi]

Can you be a little more specific with how I'd do that?

do you have a USB flash drive with windows PE installed beforehand? if not then it will technically be hard to get your issues fixed

 

[SkyNetRising]

Can you be a little more specific with how I'd do that?

Can you show also output of list disk command?

You don't have windows OS partition in there.
All existing partitions are small. Windows OS doesn't fit into any of those.

529MB​

99MB​

16MB​

100MB​

100MB​

780MB​

You have to clean 1TB disk and reinstall windows.

diskpart​

list disk​

select disk 0​

clean​

Then reinstall windows.

 

[ace010101]

Can you show also output of list disk command?

You don't have windows OS partition in there.
All existing partitions are small. Windows OS doesn't fit into any of those.

529MB​

99MB​

16MB​

100MB​

100MB​

780MB​

You have to clean 1TB disk and reinstall windows.

diskpart​

list disk​

select disk 0​

clean​

Then reinstall windows.

I tried to reinstall windows already, the disk write protection can't be turned off by any means. I tried and Windows can't create any partitions past a 100 MB one for "System" after deleting all of them.

 

[ace010101]

do you have a USB flash drive with windows PE installed beforehand? if not then it will technically be hard to get your issues fixed

Yeah

 

[lynn_levi]

Yeah

if you intend to reinstall windows, you need to boot into this particular flash drive, ive read your other reply about windows failure to make partitions so run cmd;

diskpart
list disk
sel disk {number of your boot drive}
clean
convert gpt
create par efi size=100
format fs=fat32 quick
assign
create par primary
format fs=ntfs quick label=windows (label is optional for easier recognition)
assign

if diskpart fails to do anything partition related, open any disk utility that can show SMART status, and show me the SMART status of your boot drive, look at the total host writes in GB.

 

[SkyNetRising]

I tried to reinstall windows already, the disk write protection can't be turned off by any means I tried and Windows can't create any partitions past a 100 MB one for "System" after deleting all of them.

Replace the drive. It has failed.

If it has locked itself in read only mode, this means either

write cycles have been exhausted for SSD or​

critical SMART parameter has been tripped.​

​

Show output of commands

diskpart​

list disk​

select disk 0​

detail disk​

If it shows mode read-only : yes
, then it's done.