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17 hours ago, ki8aras said:

wait hold on, usually you can delete unneeded partitions in disk management, but you do run the risk of deleting one of the partitions you need (i think im not an expert in storage)

if you reinstall windows, you'll need to reinstall your drivers sadly , but most game hosting apps ( like steam, ubisoft connect and (i think) ea)  have a function where you can locate game files (this is assuming the games are on a separate drive and won't get deleted when you reinstall windows, because part of the windows installation is formatting the drive you're installing on

What I wound up doing is reinstalling windows, and resetting the bios to factory. Then I re-enabled the RAM in bios. Boots great now.

 

I'm pretty sure what happened is I screwed up the windows install and the MB didn't know what to use for the boot drive. Which is why it worked initially after I forced it to boot from my SSD. Thank you for the help!

Just built my first PC and I'm running into a strange issue.

 

The PC fails to post, giving me a white light indicating a GPU problem.

 

When I restart it, it forces me into bios due to the failed post.

 

I head to the boot menu and override it to my 1tb NVME drive, then it posts just fine. I can game on it no problem all day. 

 

 

It's almost as if it tries to boot from a nonexistent drive. But when I look at the drop down that says what I can boost from, it only lists my 1tb NVME drive. So what else could it be trying to boot from?

 

Anyways I don't know the issue but if anyone can think of anything, I've tried troubleshooting it myself to no avail. It's not the worse thing in the world because I can force it through but it's probably not good for things in the long run to kill a boot manually every time I start it.

 

Thank you!

 

Windows 11

Inland performance plus 1tb SSD

Asus B650-E WIFI MB

GeForce RTX 4060

AMD Ryzen 7 7700x

Gskill Flare x5 32gb DDR5 RAM

MSI A750BE Power Supply 

Phantom Spirit 120 SE ARGB

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3 minutes ago, JONNYWilson said:

nyways I don't know the issue but if anyone can think of anything, I've tried troubleshooting it myself to no avail. It's not the worse thing in the world because I can force it through but it's probably not good for things in the long run to kill a boot manually every time I start it.

check disk management in windows for any other partitions on your drive (other than the ones meant to be there i mean)

 

are you reusing any drives from past systems? they may have left over boot partitions and confusing the system somehow

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2 minutes ago, ki8aras said:

check disk management in windows for any other partitions on your drive (other than the ones meant to be there i mean)

 

are you reusing any drives from past systems? they may have left over boot partitions and confusing the system somehow

Honestly I didn't know what i was doing when I installed windows and might have clicked the wrong thing when it asked me to partition, or even created a duplicate partition. Should I try to reinstall windows? If so will I have to reinstall everything else like drivers and games? (Out of curiosity)

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3 minutes ago, JONNYWilson said:

Honestly I didn't know what i was doing when I installed windows and might have clicked the wrong thing when it asked me to partition, or even created a duplicate partition. Should I try to reinstall windows? If so will I have to reinstall everything else like drivers and games? (Out of curiosity)

wait hold on, usually you can delete unneeded partitions in disk management, but you do run the risk of deleting one of the partitions you need (i think im not an expert in storage)

if you reinstall windows, you'll need to reinstall your drivers sadly , but most game hosting apps ( like steam, ubisoft connect and (i think) ea)  have a function where you can locate game files (this is assuming the games are on a separate drive and won't get deleted when you reinstall windows, because part of the windows installation is formatting the drive you're installing on

gaming system: Intel core I9 12900ks / biostar Z690A valkyrie / 4x8gb corsair Vengeance @3333Mhz ram / RX 7900XTX pulse gpu / Thermalright peerless assassin 140 /Coolermaster Qube 500 case / Be Quiet Dark Power Pro 12 1500w power supply

 

laptop: Dell xps 9510, 3.5k OLED, i7 11800h, rtx 3050 ti, 2x16gb DDR4 @ 3200Mhz, 1TB main drive, 2TB add in ssd

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17 hours ago, ki8aras said:

wait hold on, usually you can delete unneeded partitions in disk management, but you do run the risk of deleting one of the partitions you need (i think im not an expert in storage)

if you reinstall windows, you'll need to reinstall your drivers sadly , but most game hosting apps ( like steam, ubisoft connect and (i think) ea)  have a function where you can locate game files (this is assuming the games are on a separate drive and won't get deleted when you reinstall windows, because part of the windows installation is formatting the drive you're installing on

What I wound up doing is reinstalling windows, and resetting the bios to factory. Then I re-enabled the RAM in bios. Boots great now.

 

I'm pretty sure what happened is I screwed up the windows install and the MB didn't know what to use for the boot drive. Which is why it worked initially after I forced it to boot from my SSD. Thank you for the help!

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