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Ok, so it seems it was a power supply issue. Computer started shutting off while in use, checked the PSU and it was very hot. Corsair and only a year old so my luck is just shit.

I flashed the BIOS to the latest version, but the computer shut off again when left unattended I have set the hard disk to never turn off I have set the sleep timer to never I have turned off hybrid sleep I have set it to never hibernate I just changed the display setting to also never turn off, but I don't know if that will do anything

I downloaded it, but can you point me to how to actually flash the BIOS since I have never done that before?

My desktop recently (within the last week or two) started shutting down completely instead of going to sleep. I have checked the power settings, drivers, made sure windows was up to date and run sfc/scannow but nothing has resolved the issue. It runs fine when I am actually using it. I built the computer about a year ago and it has the following specs Windows 10 GIGABYTE X570 AORUS PRO WIFI AMD - Ryzen 5 3600 cooled with CORSAIR - Hydro Series H100i 240 mm AIO GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 2070 Super WINDFORCE OC 3X G.SKILL TridentZ RGB Series 32GB (2x16) Samsung 970 EVO 1 TB PCIE Gen 3 x4 NVME SSD Seagate BarraCuda ST4000DM004 4 TB 5400 RPM 256 MG Cache HDD CORSAIR - CX-M Series 650W ATX12V modular power supply

I got it installed by setting the first drive in the boot order to the target and the second to the bootable USB, it seems that it will work if I just go into the BIOS each time I want to switch OS, but I am wondering if there is a better way.

I was trying to go to partition manually, I will take pictures in an hour or so

So, I have a 1 TB SSD and 4 TB HDD that I want to use for windows and a 500 GB SSD and a 1 TB HDD that I want to use for ubuntu. I already have windows installed on the 1 TB SSD and have files on the 4 TB HDD, I just physically installed the 500 GB and 1TB drives and then formatted them in windows. I have a bootable ubuntu install USB but I am having difficulties during the install telling the computer which drives are for what, it is saying that the drive doesn't have a root file system, how do I set that up?

Memtest ran overnight and reported no issues, I will try Prime95 tonight, I did just update the AMD chipset drivers so it might have been that.

I used the windows memory diagnostic to test the memory

I just built my first PC a couple weeks ago, specs are as follows AMD Ryzen 3600 Corsair Hydro Series H100i AIO cooler Gigabyte X570 Aorus pro wifi Gigabyte 2070 Super Windforce 2x16 G.Skill RGB 3600 Hz ram Samsung 970 Evo plus 1 TB SSD (system drive) Seagate Barracuda ST4000M004 4 TB HDD Corsair CX-M 650 W PSU I installed windows 10 and updated all the drivers, but for some reason the computer keeps hanging at random times and also seems to hang upon first login after a restart. I have tested the memory and it came back fine, I have checked system files and they came back fine. I don't currently have any OC's applied except for the XMP profile on the RAM, but I tried taking that off as well and it still hung a couple times. What are some other troubleshooting things I might be able to try?

yes, that is the problem I have encountered. so it looks like I may have to try a clean install...

how can I unlock it without the password? I think there might be some old files that I can't find anywhere else. it is running windows 7.

no, it appears to be sandisk Edit: I just double checked and it does appear to be a Samsung NVME, is that a problem?

sfc/scannow did not find any errors

doing that now