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Ryzen 5 5600x processor
ASRock b550 Phantom Gaming 4 motherboard
GSkill Ripjaws V series ddr4-3600 8GBx2 ram
corsair 750 gold PSU
MSI 580 Armor 8g OC GPU
New build reusing an old psu and gpu. When booting up I get a black screen saying: Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key. I’ve found a a weird workaround to get it to boot to his desktop but I don’t know why it won’t work normally. To get it to boot I first turn on the pc without his ssd (with windows) plugged in and boot to the bios screen. I then plug his ssd in and hit the reset button and it works perfectly fine. I’ve done this like 5 times. But every time I restart after installing drivers or w/e it boots to that black screen, and sometimes a blue screen saying something about windows needing a repair or something similar. A friend said it might be a bad ssd cable, bad motherboard slot or bad connection somewhere. I have tried new sata cables and different motherboard positions and replugged those cords in. Only thing I haven’t tried is replacing the psu cords that connect to the hard drive, because I don’t have an extra. There are some fans running off the other connections on that psu cord but I’ve unplugged those and it doesn’t seem to make a difference.
We did this build because his old pc seemingly died. there were a bunch of error codes which seemed to point to ram but replacing the ram and using different slots just made new error codes and we figured it might just be the motherboard so I bought the processor, motherboard, and ram from a pcpartpicker build on black friday just to get him going again.
Originally he was using a 960 but we couldn’t get this new build to boot with it, my friend gave us the 580 and it ran at his house where we were building it. We were using my friends ssd to build it because I somehow forgot to bring my brothers but I had booted up with my brothers connected to my computer after his old one died and it booted fine.
Do I just need to buy the new psu cords, and if its not that just buy a new hard drive?
ASRock b550 Phantom Gaming 4 motherboard
GSkill Ripjaws V series ddr4-3600 8GBx2 ram
corsair 750 gold PSU
MSI 580 Armor 8g OC GPU
New build reusing an old psu and gpu. When booting up I get a black screen saying: Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key. I’ve found a a weird workaround to get it to boot to his desktop but I don’t know why it won’t work normally. To get it to boot I first turn on the pc without his ssd (with windows) plugged in and boot to the bios screen. I then plug his ssd in and hit the reset button and it works perfectly fine. I’ve done this like 5 times. But every time I restart after installing drivers or w/e it boots to that black screen, and sometimes a blue screen saying something about windows needing a repair or something similar. A friend said it might be a bad ssd cable, bad motherboard slot or bad connection somewhere. I have tried new sata cables and different motherboard positions and replugged those cords in. Only thing I haven’t tried is replacing the psu cords that connect to the hard drive, because I don’t have an extra. There are some fans running off the other connections on that psu cord but I’ve unplugged those and it doesn’t seem to make a difference.
We did this build because his old pc seemingly died. there were a bunch of error codes which seemed to point to ram but replacing the ram and using different slots just made new error codes and we figured it might just be the motherboard so I bought the processor, motherboard, and ram from a pcpartpicker build on black friday just to get him going again.
Originally he was using a 960 but we couldn’t get this new build to boot with it, my friend gave us the 580 and it ran at his house where we were building it. We were using my friends ssd to build it because I somehow forgot to bring my brothers but I had booted up with my brothers connected to my computer after his old one died and it booted fine.
Do I just need to buy the new psu cords, and if its not that just buy a new hard drive?
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