Please my msi pc was working normally but I turned it on today and it booted into the bios and keeps booting into the bios every time
Question Pc keeps booting into bios🙏🥹
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Colif
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What are specs of the PC?
Can the bios see your boot drive? Could be it isn't working now, hence it boots into BIOS.
What version of windows? Do you have a windows installer? Mainly ask as its a handy boot drive. You can download a new one from Microsoft
Win 10 - https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/software-download/windows10
Win 11 - https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows11
making one of those (that matches your OS) on a USB, using another working PC, could help.If drive still works, we can rescue files off it.
Did it work fine last time you used it? No strange problems recently?
Can the bios see your boot drive? Could be it isn't working now, hence it boots into BIOS.
What version of windows? Do you have a windows installer? Mainly ask as its a handy boot drive. You can download a new one from Microsoft
Win 10 - https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/software-download/windows10
Win 11 - https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows11
making one of those (that matches your OS) on a USB, using another working PC, could help.If drive still works, we can rescue files off it.
Did it work fine last time you used it? No strange problems recently?
Here are the pc specs:
Processor i5 12400F 6/12 4.4GHz
Motherboard H610M MSI
RAM Memory 16GB 2x8GB 3600MHz Kingston HyperX RGB
1TB SSD Phison PS5015-E15 NVMe PCIe
Endorfy Vero L5 500W 80+ Bronze Power Supply
RTX 3060 MSI GAMING X 12GB GDDR6 Graphics Card
Yes, the bios can see the boot drive
Running Win 10
No strange problems recently
I
Colif
Moderator
I can't say I know that PSU brand name. few places I found it suggested person get a better known brand. Not sure it would cause this though.
Its been a while but its possible the bios can see it even if drive doesn't work. I used to answer questions like this all the time...
this board?
or this one?
doesn't matter as bios manual doesn't show what I am looking for.
this might:
I have to assume the windows install is cause.
If you have a win 10 installer, put it into pc and , boot into bios and choose save and exit.
On this page, pick Boot Override
This lets you pick the USB installer as boot device for one startup, without messing with boot settings.
Choose USB from list and PC will boot from it
You will have to do that each time you want to boot off USB
boot from installer
on screen after languages, choose repair this pc, not install.
choose troubleshoot
choose advanced
choose start up repair - this will scan PC and maybe fix this - will ask for logon info
that might help - its worth a try
Anything on PC you can't afford to lose?
I have to go to sleep (its 4am) but I will look here later.
If you can copy all the files off C, you can turn around and clean install if you don't have any backups
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Its been a while but its possible the bios can see it even if drive doesn't work. I used to answer questions like this all the time...
this board?
or this one?
doesn't matter as bios manual doesn't show what I am looking for.
this might:
I have to assume the windows install is cause.
If you have a win 10 installer, put it into pc and , boot into bios and choose save and exit.
On this page, pick Boot Override
This lets you pick the USB installer as boot device for one startup, without messing with boot settings.
Choose USB from list and PC will boot from it
You will have to do that each time you want to boot off USB
boot from installer
on screen after languages, choose repair this pc, not install.
choose troubleshoot
choose advanced
choose start up repair - this will scan PC and maybe fix this - will ask for logon info
that might help - its worth a try
Anything on PC you can't afford to lose?
- on screen after languages, choose repair this pc, not install.
- choose troubleshoot
- choose advanced
- choose command prompt
- type notepad and press enter
- in notepad, select file>open
- Use file explorer to copy any files you need to save to USB another storage drive apart from C
I have to go to sleep (its 4am) but I will look here later.
If you can copy all the files off C, you can turn around and clean install if you don't have any backups
How To - Windows 10 clean install tutorial
If you are looking for the Windows 11 Clean install tutorial, you can find that here: Windows 11 Clean install tutorial (Click here) Otherwise, welcome to the Windows 10 Clean install tutorial This tutorial is intended to help you, step by step, to perform a clean install of Windows...
forums.tomshardware.com
This is the motherboardI can't say I know that PSU brand name. few places I found it suggested person get a better known brand. Not sure it would cause this though.
Its been a while but its possible the bios can see it even if drive doesn't work. I used to answer questions like this all the time...
this board?
or this one?
doesn't matter as bios manual doesn't show what I am looking for.
this might:
I have to assume the windows install is cause.
If you have a win 10 installer, put it into pc and , boot into bios and choose save and exit.
On this page, pick Boot Override
This lets you pick the USB installer as boot device for one startup, without messing with boot settings.
Choose USB from list and PC will boot from it
You will have to do that each time you want to boot off USB
boot from installer
on screen after languages, choose repair this pc, not install.
choose troubleshoot
choose advanced
choose start up repair - this will scan PC and maybe fix this - will ask for logon info
that might help - its worth a try
Anything on PC you can't afford to lose?
- on screen after languages, choose repair this pc, not install.
- choose troubleshoot
- choose advanced
- choose command prompt
- type notepad and press enter
- in notepad, select file>open
- Use file explorer to copy any files you need to save to USB another storage drive apart from C
I have to go to sleep (its 4am) but I will look here later.
If you can copy all the files off C, you can turn around and clean install if you don't have any backups
How To - Windows 10 clean install tutorial
If you are looking for the Windows 11 Clean install tutorial, you can find that here: Windows 11 Clean install tutorial (Click here) Otherwise, welcome to the Windows 10 Clean install tutorial This tutorial is intended to help you, step by step, to perform a clean install of Windows...
Colif
Moderator
Yes I did
Turns out it was a failed SSD…got a new SSD (crucial P3) and I was able to get windows 11 on it
Thanks a lot for your help 🙏
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