System suddenly won't boot with SATA SSDs |
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dmcyk
Newbie Joined: 19 Aug 2023 Location: California Status: Offline Points: 50 |
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Posted: 19 Aug 2023 at 3:02pm |
Hello,
I've been using my system with ASRock B550M Steel Legend without any problems for the last few months, but now suddenly it won't boot. The system serves as a home backup server, so I don't use it extensively. Just last week I made a backup, but today I noticed the system was down. Trying to start it the server didn't show up online, so I had to dig in a bit. The system has a main boot NVMe SSD and 3x Crucial MX500 SSDs for storage. I was able to find that the system doesn't boot when any of the Crucial SSDs are connected. The ASRock logo appears briefly on boot but it quickly changes into a black screen and nothing else is happening. It's also not possible to enter BIOS settings, system is unresponsive. With all 3 Crucial SSDs disconnected the system is able to boot and I can enter BIOS settings just fine. This way I was able to update the motherboard to the latest BIOS version, but that didn't help. I also tried to connect the SSDs individually, but connecting any of them prevents the system from posting. It seems rather unlikely that all 3 SSDs have somehow failed at the exact same moment, while the system was working fine last week. Plus the fact that I can't even enter BIOS settings while they're connected makes me think this could be a motherboard problem. Has anyone experienced something similar? Could this be a motherboard problem? My setup is: ASRock B550M Steel Legend AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G Samsung 980 M.2 500 GB 3x Crucial MX500 Kingston 16GB ECC memory Corsair RM750 PSU |
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M440
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I would reset the bios settings using the jumper on the motherboard.
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asrock b650m/hdv.m2, ryzen 7700x@85watt
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dmcyk
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Unfortunately resetting BIOS didn't help.
I have another SATA SSD, I tried connecting it today and the system boots fine with it... So it could be something wrong with the drives, but it's suspicious that all 3 would fail and I can't even enter BIOS settings when any of them is connected. |
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dmcyk
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I got a SATA -> USB converter and attaching the disks through USB works fine. The disk uses SED encryption, I didn't want to setup decryption so I didn't try accessing the data, but the system boots fine and disk size/model are correctly reported. So the disk seems to be fine, definitely shouldn't be preventing the motherboard from accessing the settings etc.
So I suspect it's either the motherboard or the PSU. |
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