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Uehm
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Hello all,

I have a predicament. For the past week or so my D drive has not been able to be detected. I have had this drive for about two years now. It is a WD green 1.5tb drive. It is plugged in and was working until it randomly decided not to. I am also having issues with my ethernet. For some reason whenever I boot up my pc, it doesn't work. I have to right click the Ethernet icon in the taskbar and select troubleshoot problems. It takes about 2 minutes and ultimately resets the Internet drjver.

Now, I could live with these problems until the one I have now. I just got home from work and when I went to boot up my pc, it stuck itself into a boot loop (?). Here is a quick video showing tbis:

It has been like this for the past 20-30 minutes with no end in sight. I have tried rebooting, i have tried pressing to go to the bios setup, which it is not letting me do.

Any help at all at this point would be appreciated. Thank you.

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Hello all,

I have a predicament. For the past week or so my D drive has not been able to be detected. I have had this drive for about two years now. It is a WD green 1.5tb drive. It is plugged in and was working until it randomly decided not to. I am also having issues with my ethernet. For some reason whenever I boot up my pc, it doesn't work. I have to right click the Ethernet icon in the taskbar and select troubleshoot problems. It takes about 2 minutes and ultimately resets the Internet drjver.

Now, I could live with these problems until the one I have now. I just got home from work and when I went to boot up my pc, it stuck itself into a boot loop (?). Here is a quick video showing tbis:

It has been like this for the past 20-30 minutes with no end in sight. I have tried rebooting, i have tried pressing to go to the bios setup, which it is not letting me do.

Any help at all at this point would be appreciated. Thank you.

 

 

If your D: drive truly is faulty, that could be causing the boot loop.  Disconnect the drive entirely and see if it will boot then.  If still not, try resetting CMOS.

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Unplug all drives bar your boot drive. Try booting.

If fail, unplug all but each drive 1 at a time and try booting, see if bios can see it. 

If all fail, send mobo back to MSI.

 

I recently sent one of my machines mobos back to msi, they fixed it for free (bar shipping), they are good like that (but it does take like a month).

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If your D: drive truly is faulty, that could be causing the boot loop.  Disconnect the drive entirely and see if it will boot then.  If still not, try resetting CMOS.

D: drive is just my random crap drive, my c drive is my ssd. I'll try resetting it.

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Unplug all drives bar your boot drive. Try booting.

If fail, unplug all but each drive 1 at a time and try booting, see if bios can see it. 

If all fail, send mobo back to MSI.

Will they accept it even though I'm pretty sure my

 

I mobo recently sent one of my machines mobos back to msi, they fixed it for free (bar shipping), they are good like that (but it does take like a month).

Will msi still accept it seeing as I've had this mobo for about 2 years nkw? I also can't go a month without a pc.

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D: drive is just my random crap drive, my c drive is my ssd. I'll try resetting it.

Doesn't matter if its just a storage drive or not, when the PC starts up one of the first thing that happens is the drives are detected, and if the D drive is faulty, it could be causing an issue with the detection causing a boot loop.   

 

That very well might not be the issue, but its certainly worth a try.

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Doesn't matter if its just a storage drive or not, when the PC starts up one of the first thing that happens is the drives are detected, and if the D drive is faulty, it could be causing an issue with the detection causing a boot loop.   

 

That very well might not be the issue, but its certainly worth a try.

Yup tried it and it didn't change abything. It has been working the past week without itbeing detected, dunno what happened now.

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Yup tried it and it didn't change abything. It has been working the past week without itbeing detected, dunno what happened now.

Try resetting CMOS. 

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Can you get into bios at all? If you can turn off boot screen so you can see what is going on, video / photo that.

 

TEST: Swap SATA cable from C drive to D drive, see what is detected, change port (plugged in point).

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