MyMachineSucks

Figured out the whole problem. I think my top PCI slot in my motherboard is bad. It won't display anything if I have my GPU in the top slot, but bottom slot works fine. I'm going to see if I can reach out to MSI for an RMA.

I'm also now getting VGA debug light errors. My graphics card is fine, from what I can tell, since I can still boot into the BIOS. Just not Windows.

That was my next thought. I was thinking it was more of a hardware issue. I tried pretty much everything that I thought it could be on the hardware side. Would a corrupt OS cause the SSD to not appear as a boot device but appear in attached storage drives?

I don't know what happened here, but I was using a 256 gig M.2 SSD as a boot drive. Worked fine, and I never really had a problem with it until now. Today, I was using my computer for a couple hours, shut it off to go to the doctor, and came back. Now, my computer will only go to the loading Windows screen, for a brief second, then a black screen. I went into my BIOS to figure out what's going on, and I find that my SSD is no longer an option in my boot devices, but when I go to the tab with all storage devices, it's there. I've tried reseating everything (including CPU, GPU, RAM, etc.), removing memory sticks, clearing CMOS, etc. I'm at a loss here. I can provide pictures/videos if they're needed.

How did you do this option? That sounds interesting.

They were all slightly bent afterwards but they're all bent back into place now. I was just wondering if that could be a possibility. I have an 80 gig drive around here that serves no purpose that I can potentially get that lip from.

Well, all that's really WRONG with the original PCB is that it's missing that plastic lip. Could I just remove the lip from a spare drive I have lying around and put it on somehow? Just wondering if that's an option that won't force me to go buy a soldering iron. I don't have one at the moment.

How would I go about moving the chip? Also, could I get a cable on that without the lip? Or maybe move the plastic lip from the donor board to the original and reattach?

I have a 1 TB Toshiba DT01ACA100, AAA AA10 that I accidentally damaged the SATA port on when I was doing some impromptu cable management. I pulled the plastic lining off of the lip of it on accident as shown in the photo. Anyways, I bought a working replacement PCB off of someone with the same model, storage size, and drive revision numbers. Attached it on just fine, and when I try to run it with the SATA power and data transfer cables hooked up, the drive spins (I can feel it spin with my fingers) but the BIOS of my computer doesn't notice it, so I effectively can't use the drive. I have a lot of saved games and stuff on here that I'd like to save if possible, but I don't want to spend $500+ on data recovery for them. What am I missing? I'm not experienced in drive recovery or anything, so I'm doing what I think could work. Any help is appreciated.

Hooray, I'm back. Anyways, all ram passed all tests at all speeds, so I don't know if it's that anymore. I also don't think it's power supply anymore. I tried an experiment: Basically, leave it on for 15+ minutes, and then shut it off and immediately turn it back on. You'd think that it would work fine because the power supply would be warm. Nope. Nothing happened. Now it looks like it's an "every other boot" problem.

No, I was filling A2 and B2 first. I was doing it right by the manufacturer's manual and the diagram on the board itself. Memtest with all 4 sticks passed no problem. Now I'm looking into timing issues. Currently running memtest at 2666.

It's been at optimal settings. Every time I add anything in there, it returns to optimal settings. I still need to test the fourth ram slot to see if it's bad. 3 sticks in tested fine. If 4 sticks in tests bad, I know it's ram slot #3 that's causing the issues, or at least, I have an idea. However, if it t ests clean with all 4 sticks in, then that points to the previous 17 error codes being a frequency/voltage issue. If all 4 sticks tests as clean, I'm gonna slowly crank up the frequency and retest each time until I get an error, then figure shit out from there.

Right now, yes. Just checking for any inherently bad slots. If all of that goes well, then I'll look into timing issues and frequency issues. In that case, I'll probably go into BIOS and gradually crank up speeds until I get a memtest error. Open to suggestions on how to do that if the "all 4 slots" test works.

ACTUALLY, it's not. More info. So on my board, slot #2 is the first slot you need to put a DIMM in. To try and narrow it down, I ran all 4 of my sticks, individually, through memtest, in the second slot. Not a SINGLE error. Right now, I'm doing the same thing, but adding a slot every time. So now I'm doing Memtest with 2 slots, then I'll do 3, then 4. I think it's a bad ram slot in the Mobo, which I will absolutely get the board RMA'd for, if it does turn out to be the issue.

Sorry, I know I haven't been here for a few days. Update time. Ram Memtest86 on it. Returned 17 errors. Put in an RMA with the manufacturer to try and get a new kit. I think memory is what's causing this issue to happen.