PC going to pre-bios screen (power-on-self-test) on boot up

AndrewNR

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Looking for some help please. Last day or so my PC hasn't been booting up properly.

- When I load up I am faced with what I believe is a "Power-on-self-test" page, similar to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-on_self-test
- I press F1 to enter setup
- This takes me straight to BIOS (motherboard is PRIME X399-A)
- Then weirdly in here the boot priority's are:
  1. SSD - this only holds 5 or so VMs (no Windows installed) and nothing else
  2. DRAM - assume this is one of my RAM modules???
- It doesn't show my main hard disk where Windows 10 is installed
- I have to go to Boot Menu and manually select, at which point it either:
  1. Loads successfully (Although seems to "Default" the BIOS as SVM is disabled when I try to load a VM...(CPU Config in BIOS))
  2. Comes up with an error "blinitializelibrary failed 0xc0000017" and I have to power off to restart

Any ideas???
The hard drive is about 10 years old now but it is still loading up (eventually) - I just don't understand why it has lost its boot priority?
I'll probably format the SSD and install Win10 from a USB stick but this random error is strange.
 
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This is what it does.

I think I have to enable fast boot.
Just putting this here now I've spent time working out how to post an image (and if fast boot doesn't work).
 
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