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I took out the battery on the motherboard for about 1 minute and tried again - still nothing. As for standoffs, I am using an ATX board so there are no extra standoffs. And once again, the things that have changed are the case fans, the case and the cpu cooler.

As I said - the only thing that's changed is the case and the AIO. Also, could you help me a bit more with those CMOS pins? I have no idea where they are and how to short them.

Recently I built myself a new PC and I couldn't start anything past the BIOS screen. Later I realized that I had to download new BIOS for the Ryzen 5000 chip to work and everything worked like a charm. The only problem was that I bought a case that was too small and today I received my bigger one (and an AIO) and moved the system to the new case and installed the AIO. BIOS loads, every component shows up in "board explorer" but after that - can't boot windows. I tried a fresh install but when I plug in a USB drive with windows and boot from it, it gets stuck at a purple screen. If I wait 10 minutes, the normal windows istaller shows up and I can select language and click install and then it gets permanently stuck at the loading screen (I waited for 2 hours and nothing moved). I restarted the system about 100 times to no avail. I tried to hard restart it by stopping the power and pressing the power button to remove all leftover power. I tried reseating the RAM, unplugging and plugging most cables and making sure the rest are plugged in properly (my cpu cable is unreachable and cant be plugged out but i have made sure it is all the way in. I tried flashing the newest BIOS - same stuff. Every fan spins, every component lights up, every component shows up in BIOS and yet - it can't boot. The only things I changed were the CPU cooler and the PC case and I applied thermal paste and everything is connected where it should be. The specs of the system are: CPU - Ryzen 5 5600X AIO - Lian Li Gallahad 240mm with the thermal paste that comes with it Mobo - MSI B550 Mag Tomahawk with newest BIOS GPU - Palit Gaming Pro RTX 3070 in the uppermost PCI-e slot PSU - EVGA 850G (850 Watt 80+ Gold) RAM - 2x16GB Patriot 3600MHz 18CL in the 2nd and 4th slots Case - Lian Li Lancool II NVMe SSD - 500GB Samsung 970 Evo SATA SSDs - 512GB Silicon Power A55 240GB Phillips SSD HDD - 1 TB Seagate I also checked the integrity of the NVMe using the tool in the BIOS and it said "No errors found" (Windows is installed on it) Also, I do have a version of Windows on the Phillips SSD too if that is a problem let me know, but I wasn't a problem last time. I honestly have no idea what to do and it feels like I've tried everything. The only thing I haven't tried is to clear CMOS (read that in another forum but idk how to do it). I also tried lauching without CPU boost and the XMP profile and no change. I also tried turning it off for a while and letting the black screen load for a while - nothing. Basically, no matter what I do - permanent black screen when I try to launch Windows and long purple screen when I boot from a USB followed by a permanent loading screen.

So, basically, a few months ago my SSD started randomly turning off and completely blocking out. I decided to replace it today and got a new one and installed windows 10 on it. When I booted to the new SSD, my old drives were gone (old SSD and HDD). Neither of them are showing up in disk management or in This PC. However, here is the really interesting part - when I go back to BIOS and set my Boot Device to my OLD SSD, my old Windows starts up and I can see and freely access ALL of my disks, including the new SSD, which only has Windows on it. How is this even possible? No matter how much I switch from one Windows to another, the disks only show up in the old one. Here is some info that might be relevant: All 3 drives are connected with 1 SATA cable to the PSU, which is an EVGA Gold 850W. All 3 drives are connected with different SATA cables to the Motherboard, which is an ASRock Z97 Pro3. The BIOS boot options are set to - 1. New SSD; 2. Old SSD; 3. HDD or 1. Old SSD; 2. New SSD; 3. HDD (depending on whether I want to boot to old or new Widows) Both drives have Windows 10 Pro, but they seem a little different. New drive is a 240 GB Philipps and the old one - 512 GB SP (Silicon Power) All 3 drives show up in BIOS and in the OLD install of Windows at all times How can I fix this? I've found 0 info on anyone having this problem before online and I have tried everything I could think of.