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Eliomiller

Eliomiller

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System Name Bonds silencer
Processor Core i7 5820k
Motherboard Asus sabertooth x99
Cooling Be quiet! Dark rock 3
Memory 4x4gb corsair vengeance(blue)
Video Card(s) Gigabyte Windforce GTX 980 ti
Storage Samsung evo 850 500gb ssd/western digital blue 1tb 7200rpm
Display(s) Asus rog swift pg278q
Case Be quiet! silent base 800 window edition
Audio Device(s) Sound blaster zxr
Power Supply Seasonic platinum 1000w 80+ platinum certified
Mouse Logitech proteus g502
Keyboard Corsair k70 2016 RGB
Hi. So here's my problem. I had my pc on an ungrounded outlet and it kept giving me asus anti surge error so after 2 month of idle pc I fixed my outlet and checked everything electrically connected.I turned it on and it took me to bios. I saved and exit and the same happen again.I started looking around.memory is all visible In the correct slot. Date and time is accurate so it's not cmos.all disks were visible except my dvd. I have a sabertooth x99 so I had plugged my ssd at sata p2 and hdd p5 . I opened my case and found my dvd cable unplugged as I had forgot to plug it in. I plugged it in and now it's dvd p1 ssd p2 hdd p5. But same problem. So I don't know why it's happening.tried to reset to default settings same. Note: before outlet problem the ssd and hdd where plugged into a different sata port as I remember btw p4 and p11.may this be a bad sata port? Give me your suggestions.the ssd information are very important and i actually havent got time to backup it and planned to do so after fixing my outlet so id like to know if it may be dangerous for the data in the ssd.Thanks
 
Does it show the ssd in the bios? Have you set it as the first boot device?
 
It boots directly to BIOS because it is unable to find a proper boot device.
1) Check your boot settings and make sure that you selected a proper boot drive, and that in SATA settings you have the same thing you had before (e.g. IDE or AHCI mode)
2) Make sure your boot drive is actually working (is detected, passes SMART).
3) If none of the above worked, it is possible that something got shorted on the motherboard and prevents SATA interface from functioning correctly (which means surge warning was not because of your outlet, but because of your motherboard).
 
For the 1) is it nescesary to put them in the same sata slot as before? Anyway to get it sorted another way as its actually hard to remember where I plugged my boot drive before.where to check for ide and ahci.for the 2)my disk is detected but when I select it to boot from it rinse and repeat.
3)I have an asus sabertooth x99.it comes usually with a TUF fortifier and the biggest part of it is from what I feel when touching based of plastic. May it be shorting even then? My case come pre applied with standoffs so it's not a short from the case.any idea how to check for a short? I already checked for loose wir under the board/standoffs/ check my burned fan / checked cpu cooler/cpu temp are at around 36 idle as we ate in a hor mea day.what else to check for as a short.
 
Eliomiller said:
my disk is detected but when I select it to boot from it rinse and repeat.
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Could've been corrupted after an unexpected reboot or something. Your x99 board can detect it but thinks it is not a bootable device. Try running windows recovery from a flashdrive, or reinstalling windows.

EDIT: it is also possible that your bootloader is on HDD, while the OS is on SSD. Try booting from your HDD before you do anything.
 
Assuming the SSD is the boot drive, it should be plugged in to SATA 0.
Regardless of which port it is in, your computer will cycle through all connected devices during the boot process until it finds the boot loader.
Most likely the MBR or boot ini files are corrupt and need rebuilding.
 
@Caring1 how can I rebuild them without destroying my data.is it possible that my data is corrupted? Is theres hope to recover? My ssd had 2 partitions: 1 c:/ with windows on it: 100gb and the other 400 gb for my program/data ect
 
After some digging I found a souvenir image it shows my bios when I first installed my pc. P1 : ssd p2: hdd p9: dvd it's the information about the first boot
 
If you have an O.S. disk you could try booting from that and doing a repair, or bring it to a computer shop to look at.
The SSD may have been fried if there was a surge.
 
Man I'd say this is a gift because I gotta slam all my fingers, toes, and face on my keyboard to get into my bios 8/10ths of the time just to see how pretty it is.

Eliomiller said:
@Caring1 how can I rebuild them without destroying my data.is it possible that my data is corrupted? Is theres hope to recover? My ssd had 2 partitions: 1 c:/ with windows on it: 100gb and the other 400 gb for my program/data ect
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OH there is your issue. I've seen all over that you're NEVER supposed to partition an SSD like that. I may be wrong (my rear is prepared for the heat) but that might be an issue.
 
Partitioning can cause issues with Trim, and cloning an SSD can make an inactive boot partition of 100Mb, but I think the partitions were active prior to the power surge and boot issues.
 
Tried to boot from hdd and it worked !but what to do next?
 
Make a bootable Windows USB stick, unplug your HDD, boot from the flash drive and run windows repair. It will fix MBR/other boot problems.
... or do a fresh install on SSD.
 
Now the tricky part. Sorry if it's a stupid question but how to make a bootable usb stick? I got the rig up and running again with actually nothing lost on the drive.thanks
 
Here's a dumb question :can I use another pc than the same computer having the problem to create the bootable usb drive? With the same os but I'll install the same is on the usb from my dvd.will this affect the repair process? After booting from usb what should I do next? Will my data be safe?
 
Eliomiller said:
Here's a dumb question :can I use another pc than the same computer having the problem to create the bootable usb drive? With the same os but I'll install the same is on the usb from my dvd.will this affect the repair process? After booting from usb what should I do next? Will my data be safe?
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yes that will work
 
Guys I'll use the most easy way to make it. I'm not used to the creation of .isos bootable dvd usb or anything like that. I just want to repair my boot files and not gonna mess with my personal data on the ssd
 
Eliomiller said:
Guys I'll use the most easy way to make it. I'm not used to the creation of .isos bootable dvd usb or anything like that. I just want to repair my boot files and not gonna mess with my personal data on the ssd
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So why are you going the USB route instead of the DVD route , which you said you have?

Disconnect all other drives: (use only DVD and SSD) and run repair-((option)keeping your personal files.)
 
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Guys I'd like to ask another question: I'm using a win10 laptop for the usb boot drive preparation. The problem is that my laptop is windows 10 64bit home but my pc is windows 10 enterprise 64bit. And this laptop don't have any optical drive so I can't use my dvd copy.and anyway my dvd copy is installer not iso.any solution to this? Should I use the same pc ?
 
jsfitz54 said:
Why do you not like YUMI?
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Because Rufus works YUMI doesn''t
1. Syslinux is terrible
2. it uses disk images to chain load which is dumb
 
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