PC randomly restarts when its booting back up I get can't find boot drive, manually restart it will boot normally.

[runningdecoy]

I am have a sporadic hard computer reboot (similar if you lost power for a split second and it turns it's self back on, my server is on the same breaker switch and I haven't had any problems with that, so I don't think its dirty power but I am planning on buying a UPS for my computer) and when it does reboot it can't find the boot drive. If I wait a few minutes and manually restart it again it will boot normally and work just fine, if I try to reboot it right away most of the time it still can't find the boot drive I have a wait a few minutes before it comes back. I have check the event logs after it happens and nothing is showing up in there besides the message of Windows wasn't shut down properly.

 

This is happening what appears to me to be random, it can happen once every few days, to I have seen it not happen for a few weeks then it does it. It does seem so be happening more frequently lately but, its really hard to tell. I have put all those parts in new over the past few months and haven't been able to track down what is causing this issue. I am now leaning towards the NVME drive itself is causing the issue because I can't think of anything else that could be causing it. One of the things I haven't tried yet is putting a 1TB Samsung 980 drive from my server into my computer to see if it still runs into this problem and put the drive that is currently in my main system in another spare motherboard processer I have and let it run on that for a while to see it it still does it. I am not sure what else I can try before just replacing it with my server drive and installing Windows 10 back on it and waiting a month or two to see if the issue happens again, but I am unsure how long I should wait before I say yup it's the NVME drive. Any help or recommendations would be much apricated. 

 

My NVME drive stays around 49C haven't seen it go over 75C and that was when I was putting a repeated full load on it.

CPU is staying around 45C to 55C while in slight use.

BIOS is up to date

 

My computer has the following specs. plus a Blue ray drive and 4TB Iron wolf drive.

 

GIGABYTE B550 UD AC (AM4/ AMD/ B550/ ATX/Dual M.2/ SATA 6Gb/s/USB 3.2 Gen 2/ Intel 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/Realtek GbE LAN/PCIe 4.0/ Motherboard)

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-core, 16-Thread Unlocked Desktop Processor

990 PRO SSD 4TB PCIe 4.0 M.2 2280 Internal Solid State Hard Drive, Seq. Read Speeds Up to 7,450 MB/s for High End Computing, Gaming, and Heavy Duty Workstations, MZ-V9P4T0B/AM, Black

 

Pure Power 12 M 1000W, ATX 3.0, 80 Plus® Gold, Modular Power Supply, for PCIe 5.0 GPUs and GPUs with 6+2 pin connectors, 12VHPWR Cable Included, Silent 120mm be quiet! Fan - BN506

XFX Speedster QICK319 RX 7800 XT CORE Gaming Graphics Card 16GB GDDR6 HDMI 3xDP, AMD RDNA 3 RX-78TQICKF9

Corsair VENGEANCE LPX DDR4 RAM 32GB (2x16GB) 3200MHz CL16 Intel XMP 2.0 Computer Memory - Black (CMK32GX4M2E3200C16)

 

[191x7]

2 hours ago, runningdecoy said:

I am have a sporadic hard computer reboot (similar if you lost power for a split second and it turns it's self back on, my server is on the same breaker switch and I haven't had any problems with that, so I don't think its dirty power but I am planning on buying a UPS for my computer) and when it does reboot it can't find the boot drive. If I wait a few minutes and manually restart it again it will boot normally and work just fine, if I try to reboot it right away most of the time it still can't find the boot drive I have a wait a few minutes before it comes back. I have check the event logs after it happens and nothing is showing up in there besides the message of Windows wasn't shut down properly.

 

This is happening what appears to me to be random, it can happen once every few days, to I have seen it not happen for a few weeks then it does it. It does seem so be happening more frequently lately but, its really hard to tell. I have put all those parts in new over the past few months and haven't been able to track down what is causing this issue. I am now leaning towards the NVME drive itself is causing the issue because I can't think of anything else that could be causing it. One of the things I haven't tried yet is putting a 1TB Samsung 980 drive from my server into my computer to see if it still runs into this problem and put the drive that is currently in my main system in another spare motherboard processer I have and let it run on that for a while to see it it still does it. I am not sure what else I can try before just replacing it with my server drive and installing Windows 10 back on it and waiting a month or two to see if the issue happens again, but I am unsure how long I should wait before I say yup it's the NVME drive. Any help or recommendations would be much apricated. 

 

My NVME drive stays around 49C haven't seen it go over 75C and that was when I was putting a repeated full load on it.

CPU is staying around 45C to 55C while in slight use.

BIOS is up to date

 

My computer has the following specs. plus a Blue ray drive and 4TB Iron wolf drive.

 

GIGABYTE B550 UD AC (AM4/ AMD/ B550/ ATX/Dual M.2/ SATA 6Gb/s/USB 3.2 Gen 2/ Intel 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/Realtek GbE LAN/PCIe 4.0/ Motherboard)

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-core, 16-Thread Unlocked Desktop Processor

990 PRO SSD 4TB PCIe 4.0 M.2 2280 Internal Solid State Hard Drive, Seq. Read Speeds Up to 7,450 MB/s for High End Computing, Gaming, and Heavy Duty Workstations, MZ-V9P4T0B/AM, Black

 

Pure Power 12 M 1000W, ATX 3.0, 80 Plus® Gold, Modular Power Supply, for PCIe 5.0 GPUs and GPUs with 6+2 pin connectors, 12VHPWR Cable Included, Silent 120mm be quiet! Fan - BN506

XFX Speedster QICK319 RX 7800 XT CORE Gaming Graphics Card 16GB GDDR6 HDMI 3xDP, AMD RDNA 3 RX-78TQICKF9

Corsair VENGEANCE LPX DDR4 RAM 32GB (2x16GB) 3200MHz CL16 Intel XMP 2.0 Computer Memory - Black (CMK32GX4M2E3200C16)

 

How old is the motherboard? Do you have a multimeter?

Latest motherboard Bios?

Checked the drive(s) with something like Hard Disk Sentinel?

[asheenlevrai]

I had similar issues in the past. Every time it ended up being the SSD reaching EOL. At some point the SSD would just die and the PC wouldn't boot anymore.

I was "lucky" it was always while the SSDs were under warranty, though.

[runningdecoy]

20 hours ago, 191x7 said:

How old is the motherboard? Do you have a multimeter?

Latest motherboard Bios?

Checked the drive(s) with something like Hard Disk Sentinel?

Motherboard is about two months old, and yes I have a multimeter.

Bios is on latest version

below is my screen from Samsung Magician.

[191x7]

2 hours ago, runningdecoy said:

Motherboard is about two months old, and yes I have a multimeter.

Bios is on latest version

below is my screen from Samsung Magician.

I asked about the multimeter because I thought your CMOS battery might be going bad, I've seen (and experienced) am4 boards experience such issues when the battery dies.

 

Do check with Hard Disk Sentinel. 

[runningdecoy]

9 hours ago, 191x7 said:

I asked about the multimeter because I thought your CMOS battery might be going bad, I've seen (and experienced) am4 boards experience such issues when the battery dies.

 

Do check with Hard Disk Sentinel. 

CMOS battery voltage was 3.151, I did replace the battery since I had one laying around that voltage was 3.288 and was still sitting in the original packaging.

 

 

I am not sure why the Power on time is over 200 days since I have only had the hard drive since 2/8/24