Help needed, something has died...

Danm54 · 25 Jun 2010 at 22:44

Ok, heres whats happened.

I restarted my pc, went to the kitchen and on my return my screen was blank, nothing responded so i held in the power button and turned my pc on again, now before it gets to windows the screen goes blank.

Ive cleared CMOS and still nothing, went through BIOS and all looked ok, disconnected all SSD's except the OS one, still nothing. I can see the SSD in BIOS and it is the first boot device.

I tried to flash the Bios but it says its not detected.

The fault code on my mobo says its waiting for the OS to start, this obviously doesn't happen.

Specs of my pc are

ASRock P55 Pro mobo
i5 750 CPU
4gb DDR3
Ive got 4 Samsung 64gb SSd's, one for my OS, 2 in RAID for Steam and one for films, the OS one is the oldest at about 12-18 months old.

Now with my limited knoledge is say the SSD is dead but at 12-18 months old for an SSD its not likely is it?

Im stuck now so any help will be appreciated.

Thanks

Serpantine · 25 Jun 2010 at 22:56

However unlikely the fault, you need to test by formatting one of your drives - i assume you're on Raid 0? meaning no redundancy if you format your steam drive.. Buy a cheap hdd for £20 to test?

The machine is posting and recognising the drive so i doubt it will be much more than a screwed boot record / os. Perhaps just format the "problem" drive first and go from there.

Danm54 · 25 Jun 2010 at 23:03

The Steam drives are in Raid 0, its the OS drive that i suspect is playing up.

Ive got 2 old HDD's that i might try, i use them to back up my data but i think one still has an OS on it.

Is there any way to repair the boot record?

hyperst · 25 Jun 2010 at 23:08

put your windows disc in, and there should be some options of fixing the OS

Danm54 · 26 Jun 2010 at 14:46

Ok, i tried to fix the OS and it was successful for about 5 mins, then i got a BSOD when i restarted, no amount of fixing cured this!

Ive now installed Windows 7 on the SSD with films etc on and its working fine, obviously ive lost all the data on C drive but it was all backed up not long back so i shouldn't have lost too much progress on games etc.

Ive connected the failed SSD and i can see it and use it, disc check comes back with no errors and says its working fine. I may try and find some tools from Samsung and see if i can do a deeper check on the drive before i return it.