So today I've got quite a predicament. My computer was running fine all night/morning until I decided to make some breakfast. I left it on (cause why shut it off, right?) and when I returned to my room, I saw the automatic repair screen up. No idea why or how it happened. So, I clicked on the button that said restart my computer. It restarted 3 times before going back to the screen where I had the option to troubleshoot it. I did a quick Google search, which suggested I try doing a system restore. Little did I know, I forgot to even set it up because the computer is less than a month old. So, I tried to restart it again, thinking, what could go wrong?
Well, everything. After that, it will no longer boot passed the bios splash screen. I took out the beefy 1080ti so I could get to the battery, as I was suggested to do. Pulled that out to reset the CMOS. Powered the bad boy back on, and nothing has changed.
Then I was told to check the hard drive. My little Samsung 970 Evo couldn't possibly be the problem, could it? Well, I took it out, and to my surprise, I actually got into the bios. But now I can't do anything, because I no longer have a working hard drive. So, what do you guys suggest I do? Do you think that a file on the hard drive is causing me to not load passed the bios splash screen, so I should just wipe the nvme and reinstall Windows? Or is there possible something else I could do where I wouldn't need to wipe my drive...
Specs:
Asus prime z370a motherboard
I7 8700k
Gtx 1080ti
Samsung 970 Evo 500gb
16 gb Corsair ram
2tb hdd for Mass storage
