Bios cold start error screen

[Johnsmith45]

This error message keeps coming up however it only appears when I switch the power off completely on my computer and turn it back on again. When I say power off I mean switching the computer off by the mains or electrical wall out. If I was to shut down the computer for a while and press the power button on the computer it boots normally. 

 

One of the things I have noticed is when I cold start my computer and I go into the bios the date goes back to 2016 at 0:00. I can get past this setting simply entering and exiting the bios without making any changes. When I log into windows the date and time is set to the last time I used my computer which is very strange. 

I have owned this computer for three years and this is the first problem I have come across.

 

These are the things I have tired:

 

- Updated BIOS

- Replaced CMOS battery 

- Reset BIOS settings using the jumper.

- Reinstalled windows and formatting every hard drive

- Changed SATA mode selection to RAID as instructed by the error message. This combined 2 of my hard drives and 1 ssd drive into one drive in windows. It recognised 2.82TB storage. I have in total close to 5TB in storage but windows would only recognise 2.82TB as one single drive. That did not work. I am not familiar with raid storage at all I just want to play my games in peace.    

- I took my entire computer apart and put it back together, I have checked all connectors. 

 

Full specs: 

i7 9700k

Asus z370-A Prime motherboard 

16gb ddr 4 corsair vengeance ram  

MSI armour rtx 2070 GPU 
2tb samsung 860 evo

500gb samsung 970 EVO m.2 

2tb Seagate hard drive 

1tb western digital blue 

Corsair rm850X power supply 

Corsair k55 keyboard

Logitech 402 mouse

Logitech z333 speakers 

Acer predator xb281hk monitor  

 

Any solutions will be helpful. Thank You. 

 

 

 axzsax

[Johnsmith45]

Update: I have not found a solution. I have disconnected all drives and the problem persists. The problem only happens when I turn off the mains switch on the electrical outlet and then turn my computer on when I come back from work. Other than that the computer is fine. Any possible fixes will be highly appreciated. Thank You.    

[Goowpea]

Do you have any RAID or other drive magic done to your system? 

[Johnsmith45]

1 minute ago, Goowpea said:

Just a quick question do you have by any chance Optane drive in your system?

Nope 

[Goowpea]

From what I see from the POST screen your 500gb samsung 970 EVO m.2  is missing from the detection. Is it visible when you log in to Windows? 
Is it visible in BIOS?

[Johnsmith45]

3 minutes ago, Goowpea said:

From what I see from the POST screen your 500gb samsung 970 EVO m.2  is missing from the detection. Is it visible when you log in to Windows? 
Is it visible in BIOS?

Yes

[Cyberwolf]

I had a donor acer windows 7 emachine  which did this same thing

the capacitor  was bulging  the capacitor is probably charging slowly

@Johnsmith45

Edited August 26, 2022 by Cyberwolf

[Johnsmith45]

3 hours ago, Cyberwolf said:

I had a donor acer windows 7 emachine  which did this same thing

the capacitor  was bulging  the capacitor is probably charging slowly

@Johnsmith45

Thank you for responding to my thread. I have checked and run multiple tests on cpu, ram, gpu and storage drives. I have not checked psu and the motherboard since I don't know how to test these things. I have changed the cmos battery and not made a difference. When I enter the bios the date and time keeps resetting. When I log into windows it takes about five minutes to go back to the current time. However in Windows the date and time is set to the last time I used my computer. If it is one of the capacitor how do I go about fixing it? 

[Cyberwolf]

13 minutes ago, Johnsmith45 said:

Thank you for responding to my thread. I have checked and run multiple tests on cpu, ram, gpu and storage drives. I have not checked psu and the motherboard since I don't know how to test these things. I have changed the cmos battery and not made a difference. When I enter the bios the date and time keeps resetting. When I log into windows it takes about five minutes to go back to the current time. However in Windows the date and time is set to the last time I used my computer. If it is one of the capacitor how do I go about fixing it? 

If the top is not flat that’s bad so check them 

if u find one send it to me