This morning, I booted up my PC and left for a bit. When I returned, I saw a "Boot device not found" error. After rebooting, everything seemed fine, so I thought it was just a minor glitch. However, a few hours later while playing Monster Hunter Wilds, the game froze and crashed, which was unusual. I restarted, but soon after, the game froze again, and all my screens went black with the same boot error popping up. My NVMe drive is only about six months old, and Crystal Disk shows it's 98% healthy. I've run stress tests with PRIME95, FurMark, and Heaven's Benchmark without any heating issues. I updated my BIOS to the latest version but can't figure out why this is happening. The Event Viewer states the PC rebooted unexpectedly, failing to write a dump file as the drive was unavailable. The BIOS self-test on the drive and controller passed, so I'm at a loss for what to try next. I'm not in a position financially to just start replacing parts without knowing what's wrong. Here are my specs: ASUS B550-F Gaming motherboard, Ryzen 7 5800x, 64GB RAM, NVMe SSD Samsung 990 2TB, NVMe SSD WD Black 2TB, SATA SSD Samsung 850 500GB, RTX 4080 Super, and Corsair 1000W PSU.
2 Answers
Have you tried reseating the NVMe drive? Physical connections can lead to strange issues. Also, with multiple drives, it might be a PCIe lane issue. Consider disabling some drives or adjusting their lane configuration to see if that helps.
Did you happen to update your BIOS before you started having these issues? Sometimes, the updates can cause unexpected problems if they're not fully compatible with existing hardware.
I updated my BIOS after the problems started, but it was running fine for so long before. It's weird.