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1TB Samsung M.2 SSD drive (less than 2 years old) just died after the recent storms. Now it will not post. What can be done? [duplicate]
I have a 1TB Samsung M.2 SSD drive in my machine. It serves as my c drive Windows 11 OS. It's less than 2 years old. After the recent storms in Dallas it suddenly will not even post!
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Hard disk stopping the entire POST process and causing PC to lock up
I have an old PC from 2005, just for nostalgia purposes. After adjusting the partition map of its main HDD and rebooting, the whole system locked up at the POST process. Even pressing Delete in order ...
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Harddisk SMART failure detected, turn off check on every boot
I have windows 10, updated to 1903 a few days ago. I have the Asus z170 motherboard and have three Hard drives, one an SSD which has my windows installed on it and another one is 1tb Seagate and ...
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Reduce BIOS Post/Enumeration Lag Due to Multiple HDDs
With ONLY my lovely NVME plugged into an x4 PCI-E slot, I can post/enumerate and boot within about 12-15 seconds (which is a bit slower than I'd like, but faster than the win 95 days =).
However, I ...
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Connecting a hard disk causes computer to not even POST
As a power user and a long time computer enthusiast, I'm flabbergasted by this problem. I've seen many things in my lifetime, but this one is new to me.
This is a long post, but an interesting ...
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ASUS Z170 stuck on boot_device error LED
I've just bought this motherboard, added PSU, CPU, RAM and turned it on (using on-board video for now). Lights come on in turn indicating it's checking CPU, RAM, VGA and finally boot device, which it ...
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H81M-HDS Intel Pentium G3220, not Posting, and no video
I am experiencing issues with a, H81M-HDS motherboard with an Intel Pentium G3220, when I press the power button, the fans spin for half a second, it turns off, does it again, and will then spin the ...
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Computer fails POST
I have a Dell XPS630i that fails The POST when powered on. I recently upgraded to an SSD with 64-bit windows 7 and after having some problems with the black screen of death (turned out that two ...
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Computer reboots after POST with one hard drive but not the other
I received a hard drive for a boot partition. I copied the old partition over using DiskCopy. After the copy, the computer would not boot with both drives in and the new drive as the primary; ...
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Computer won't start when connecting SATA HDD
I just bought a new HDD some time ago and recently I bought another SATA cable to have both HDDs connected at the same time, to transfer all the files from the older one to the newer.
When I ...
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Boot stuck at blinking cursor before GRUB - only works via BIOS boot menu
I have a new box running Debian Squeeze. Grub is installed on /dev/sda, but when booting up I just get a blinking cursor, before the Grub menu. I can only boot to grub successfully when I choose boot ...
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Harddrives aren't seen after POST, but OS still boots
I've been troubleshooting some issues with my desktop recently. I have Windows 7 installed but saw some strange behavior. I thought maybe it was because I had my 2 SATA harddrives plugged into the ...
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took out my hard drive and put it back in on my dell desktop now it doesnt work
I was testing a hard drive from another computer so I had to take out the hard drive from my working computer but unfortunatley when I returned the hard drive to my working computer now the computer ...
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