I came home after a long day, powered on my computer, and was prompted to select my boot drive. Fortunately, I was able to boot up and am currently using it. I'm a bit baffled by this since everything seemed fine. I did have a potential malware issue recently, but I'm 95% sure I've resolved it. Also, I've just started using secure boot with my Windows 10, 64-bit system running on UEFI with an AMD CPU from 2020. Since it did boot successfully, I don't think it's a cable issue, but I have seen other posts where users couldn't even select a boot drive. After rebooting, I didn't have any issues, and it booted normally. Any thoughts on what could've caused this?
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It sounds like it could be related to BIOS or UEFI settings. Sometimes, Windows updates or driver utilities can make unexpected changes to BIOS settings. Also, if your motherboard is older (like over 5 years), a depleted CMOS battery can cause strange issues, such as defaulting BIOS settings. You might want to check that if your system is older.
Thanks for the tip! My motherboard is less than 5 years old, and I ran scans on the system that came back clean, except for some corrupted files that got repaired through an SFC scan. I'm leaning towards it being a driver update issue. Appreciate your input!