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My brand new computer won't boot. HELP!

UniversalBacon
By UniversalBacon
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So I just built a gaming desktop and have been working on it's software.  I installed the os, drivers, and other essential things to the Samsung 850 evo ssd, and was getting ready to start downloading personal software.  I shut down the pc through windows 8.1, 64 bit.  I plugged in the hard drive (i kept this unplugged before to keep from certain software from getting onto it), booted it up, and was presented with the message "Reboot and select proper boot device".  Ok... after going into the bios, i set the ssd at the top of the boot priority, and again had the same issue.  Why has the ssd stopped booting even though it was working perfectly seconds earlier?  Did I just loose 3+ hours of personalization and downloads?  What do I do to get my computer to recognize that the ssd has all the software needed to boot from?

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maybe the connections for the ssd?

|CPU: Intel i7-5960X @ 4.4ghz|MoBo: Asus Rampage V|RAM: 64GB Corsair Dominator Platinum|GPU:2-way SLI Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 980's|SSD:512GB Samsung 850 pro|HDD: 2TB WD Black|PSU: Corsair AX1200i|COOLING: NZXT Kraken x61|SOUNDCARD: Creative SBX ZxR|  ^_^  Planned Bedroom Build: Red Phantom [quadro is stuck in customs, still trying to find a cheaper way to buy a highend xeon]

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does it work with the HDD unpluged but the SSD in?

make sure you have harddisks as your boot first instead of optical drives.

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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That's a bummer. Try checking boot priority again, maybe you just didn't save the settings.

 

If you saved it and it still doesn't work. I have no idea what's the problem. The only solution is to reinstall everything again. Be sure to make it a fresh install.

|CPU: Intel i7-5960X @ 4.4ghz|MoBo: Asus Rampage V|RAM: 64GB Corsair Dominator Platinum|GPU:2-way SLI Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 980's|SSD:512GB Samsung 850 pro|HDD: 2TB WD Black|PSU: Corsair AX1200i|COOLING: NZXT Kraken x61|SOUNDCARD: Creative SBX ZxR|  ^_^  Planned Bedroom Build: Red Phantom [quadro is stuck in customs, still trying to find a cheaper way to buy a highend xeon]

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Maybe you should try a bios update?

Desktop 1: CPU: Intel Core i7 4770  GPU: Nvidia Geforce GTX 960 Ram: Crucial DDR3 2x8GB 1600 MHz  Storage: Samsung 850 Evo 250GB and Segate 1TB Hard drive  Desktop 2: CPU: Intel Pentium G3258  GPU: AMD R7 250  Ram: Corsair Vengance DRR3 2x8GB 1600 MHz  Mobo: MSI H81M-E33  PSU: Corsair CX430M  Case: Rosewill MicroAtx Mini Tower

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No it doesn't even work with the hdd unplugged anymore

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well. looks like you messed up the boot sector on the SSD. you're going to have to start over.

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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Thing is, when I enter the Windows install screen, it says that the ssd still has the space from the previous os occupied, meaning it isn't gone.  BUT it does say that Windows can't be installed on the partition the current os is on because "the selected disk is of the GPT partition style".  Does this mean anything?

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