My old rig “randomly” doesn’t boot anymore from SSD
So I built my pc about 15 years ago. Over time, I’ve added components here and there. About a year ago, the motherboard broke. So I replaced it with another one with the same socket and everything. Reinstalled Windows 10 just to be sure.
Fast forward to yesterday; it randomly slowed to a crawl. Win Task Manager wouldn’t open, my browser tabs wouldn’t open or close, although the video and sound from the running YouTube video were still going, etc. I couldn’t even restart from the start menu, so I figured I gave it a reset.
Since then, the pc just won’t boot.
The BIOS will recognize the SSD, but won’t boot from it. It doesn’t even list the SSD as a boot option. The only choices are the dvd player and the data disk. It’s still listed in the SATA information though.
When I try to run the boot override from the BIOS, the screen just goes blank for a couple seconds.
Specs:
Motherboard: Asus Z97A
CPU: Intel i7-4790K
Memory: 32Gb RAM (4x Kingston 8Gb)
SSD: SanDisk Ultra II 480Gb
I’ve reset the pc a couple times, did BIOS recover, turned the pc off for a couple of hours, and that’s about it.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks so much in advance.
