We had some issues about 10 days ago, where we got a strange message when I tried to open jpeg photos on our spinny SATA hard drive. Also, we could not click on the start button on the screen. My son booted from a Linux USB drive and ran some sort of low level drive error checker, and the system seemed fine after that.
Today, I turned it on and it got to the post screen, but there was no beep, and it never seemed to get past the post to boot. I opened up the system, and watched the lights. White light on post, and then it went over to white light on boot, where it gets stuck.
A red led comes on by the m.2 ssd, and then goes off. I'm sort of wondering if the SSD boot flash drive has failed.
I WAS able to get into the BIOS on reboot, where I set it to defaults. I also pulled the battery, then put it back in after a minute. There was also a utility in the BIOS that checked the SSD, and it went through 100% with no errors reported.
I guess next step when I get home from work will be to remove anything other than keyboard, mouse, power & video on the back, and then reseat memory and m.2 SSD, to see if there is any difference. Since I was able to get into the BIOS and check things there, I don't think BIOS itself is corrupted.
Anyone have any ideas on anything I could use to further check components?
I'm using an MSI B450M Pro VDH Max board, 5600G processor, 2 sticks of RAM (16GB each, 32GB total), 2TB 'spinny' HDD for storage, 1TB Silicon Power m.2 SSD (800 Terabytes written) for boot. We built it all about a year ago.
Today, I turned it on and it got to the post screen, but there was no beep, and it never seemed to get past the post to boot. I opened up the system, and watched the lights. White light on post, and then it went over to white light on boot, where it gets stuck.
A red led comes on by the m.2 ssd, and then goes off. I'm sort of wondering if the SSD boot flash drive has failed.
I WAS able to get into the BIOS on reboot, where I set it to defaults. I also pulled the battery, then put it back in after a minute. There was also a utility in the BIOS that checked the SSD, and it went through 100% with no errors reported.
I guess next step when I get home from work will be to remove anything other than keyboard, mouse, power & video on the back, and then reseat memory and m.2 SSD, to see if there is any difference. Since I was able to get into the BIOS and check things there, I don't think BIOS itself is corrupted.
Anyone have any ideas on anything I could use to further check components?
I'm using an MSI B450M Pro VDH Max board, 5600G processor, 2 sticks of RAM (16GB each, 32GB total), 2TB 'spinny' HDD for storage, 1TB Silicon Power m.2 SSD (800 Terabytes written) for boot. We built it all about a year ago.
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