PC Needs to Be Booted Twice to Work – Looking for Help

[MrCreed]

Hey everyone,

I'm having an issue where my PC sometimes needs to be powered on twice to start properly. Recently, I upgraded my motherboard, CPU, and RAM. The problem didn’t happen right away, but after a week or two, it started occurring sporadically.

Here’s the issue: if I turn my PC off and on again within a short period, it boots normally. But if it’s been off for a while, the system powers on (the fans, RAM, and GPU lights all turn on), but the screen remains blank. To get it to work, I have to turn it off and back on, and then it boots up fine.

Specs:

• CPU: Intel i7-14700K
• RAM: CORSAIR VENGEANCE RGB DDR5 32GB (2x16GB) 6000MHz CL36 Intel XMP iCUE
• GPU: MSI GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GAMING Z TRIO 8GB
• Motherboard: MSI Z790 GAMING PLUS WIFI
• Windows 10 64-bit

Has anyone experienced something similar? Any suggestions on what could be causing this or how to troubleshoot it would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

[jaslion]

Did you keep your old install?

 

This is a common issue when doing that where windows slowly starts fucking up more till stuff goes way wrong.

 

Does it go into bios immediatly when the drive is not connected?

[MrCreed]

No I do not have my old install, it was a fresh install of windows 10 to go along my new components upgrade. I would need to check as I have not unplugged the drives.